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ISSUES Only Took Us 28 Years
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PERSON OF THE YEAR Snider Industries’ Jill Snider Brewer
SNIDER INDUSTRIES Masters Of The Board Game
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THEISSUES
Jessica Johnson Associate Editor
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t only took us 28 years. I probably wrote six drafts of the article that begins on page 14. I had scribbled in the margins of my planner, on the back of my child’s report card and typed on my computer. For several days it felt like the elephant in the room wherever I went. There was this unseen, nearly insurmountable pressure. In truth, there’s no more pressure on this than any other story I’ve written for Timber Processing. Or maybe there is. It certainly feels different because it only took us 28 years to name a female “Lumberman” of the Year. I’m the only female on staff, so obviously I fought hard to make sure I got the assignment. It was my “I am woman hear me roar” moment. My editor responded in the affirmative, “Bring home the bacon, kid.” I traveled to Snider Industries in Marshall, Tex. and I sat down with Jill Snider Brewer and her husband Jimmy. I asked a million questions and two separate stories have been created. I’m really proud of what came about from just two girls at two very different points of their sawmill exposure having a conversation. Above all else, Jill Snider Brewer inspired me. I’m a twenty-something young mother with a lot to learn about life and about sawmilling. She told me repeatedly she didn’t have all the answers, but the more I listened, the more I realized how much her comments about running a sawmill actually apply to real life. Eighteen months ago I gave birth to a set of fraternal twin boys and from that moment forward my life has never stopped moving. I feel like I’m being carried down an old green chain moving from the choppy, crazy, sleepless baby days to the trying and exhausting toddler years. When Jill, a mother of three, and I discussed raising kids while maintaining unconventional careers we both said we can’t live without meticulous plans. Knowing where we’re going to be, where our kids are going to be and who’s responsible for what is just part of the game. My husband calls me “the glue.” Granted, he always remembers to say that when I’m away for a story five states over and he’s juggling the kids and forgets to send lunch money or sign the fundraiser form. Or there was my particularly favorite instance where the lack of “the glue” was evident—he sent one of our (at the time) 13-month-old sons to daycare wearing only one shoe. When I spoke with Jill about the importance, and perhaps greater ineptitude of certain folks (read: fathers) on details, she laughed it off. We wound the conversation back to the topic of the day. I noticed how she was shy at first to tell me about her accomplishments and overall imprint on Snider Industries. She told me she wasn’t so sure she wanted to accept the award at all. Throughout the interview she kept attempting to deflect the spotlight. Defaulting to her employees and her father as the real face of Snider Industries. “I’m always happy to be in the background, hopefully making everything successful,” she told me. That’s when it all came full circle: A real leader, whether in the home, in the front office or in the filing room, doesn’t try to be in the spotlight; they only care about setting everyone up for success. I’ve read nearly all 28 Man of the Year stories, and that’s one thing they all have in common: a desire to enhance their mill, their employees, their communities and the lumber industry. TP It just took 28 years, and a woman, to articulate it. Contact Jessica Johnson, ph: 334-834-1170; fax 334-834-4525; e-mail: jessica@hattonbrown.com TIMBER PROCESSING
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NEWSFEED BOISE CASCADE DIGS INTO EWP Boise Cascade Co. is purchasing Georgia-Pacific LLC’s engineered lumber production facilities at Thorsby, Ala., and Roxboro, NC for $215 million. “We are pleased to be expanding our engineered wood products business and positioning ourselves to support customers as the U.S. housing recovery continues in the years ahead,” states Tom Corrick, CEO of Boise Cascade. The Thorsby facility produces laminated veneer lumber (LVL). The Roxboro facility produces I-joists. Roxboro’s LVL production assets are currently idled. Boise Cascade expects to invest capital and hire additional employees to increase production at these mills in 2016 and beyond to obtain significant logistics benefits as well as to meet expected growth in new residential construction. The company states the addition of Thorsby and Roxboro will increase LVL billet capacity by 9 million cubic feet and I-joist capacity by 80 million lineal feet.
SALVAGE EFFORT STARTS UP Officials with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation in northeast Washington are ramping up a major salvage logging effort following a disastrous fire season for the tribe and for Washington state overall. Eventually, more than 20 logging contractors will join the effort. The worst fire season in state history occurred last year when more than 1,500 fires killed three firefighters and critically injured a fourth, destroyed 146 homes and damaged almost 500 more. Firefighting costs alone ex6
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ceeded $300 million for the state and local communities. On the Colville Indian Reservation, two major wildfires, the North Star and Tunk Block, burned more than 270,000 acres, more than 20% of total reservation acreage. As much as 400MMBF of timber burned, much of it in remote, inaccessible areas that cannot feasibly be accessed. Tribal officials hope to harvest at least 25% of the total volume before it loses much of its merchantable value. According to Phil Wapato, a forester with the Colville Confederated Tribes out of Omak, Wash., one difference with the size and intensity of 2015 fires with fires in the past is larger areas of complete devastation. “In a lot of burns you’ll have patches of green throughout the area, but with this fire, there are more 5,000 to 10,000 acre blocks that are completely burned,” he says. “A lot of the area on the west side of Moses Mountain is like that.” Through mid December, between 15-20 contractors were working the salvage project, with tribal officials hoping to expand that number. Loggers from Idaho, Montana and western Washington are participating. Plans are to initially target the easiest to access timber, using existing and decommissioned roads that can be reopened relatively easily. Areas that can be tractorlogged will take priority. While the tribe can typically move on projects faster than the U.S. Forest Service, its logging activities still fall under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), plus there are tribal considerations concerning stream buffers, watershed management and land use priorities. According to tribal reports, the salvage effort moved 8.5MMBF in November and was expected to harvest
10MMBF in December. Officials are hoping weather conditions will allow harvests to continue at that level through January and February before traditional spring breakup in March and much of April halts or greatly reduces log hauling until late spring. (Felling, skidding and decking will continue wherever possible.) The pine available for salvage will lose its solid wood merchantability by this summer; the Douglas fir and some whitewoods will retain much of their value for around two years. Most of the material coming off the salvage project is sawlog and plylog quality. Key destinations for salvage log material include the Vaagen Bros. sawmill at Colville, Wash. and Boise Cascade’s sawmill and plywood operations at Kettle Falls and Arden, Wash. The Colville tribe also has an outlet for export quality logs coming off the burn. Markets for salvage logs took a hit in mid December when officials with the Omak Wood Products plywood plant at Omak announced the plant’s closure at the end of 2015. The plant, owned by the tribe, was operating under an agreement between the Colville Tribal Federal Corp. of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and New Wood Resources, a subsidiary of Atlas Wood Products, which actually operated the facility. Under the agreement, the plant was buying 40MMBF annually from tribal lands. Tribal officials are working to decide whether to find another company to take over the plant, have the tribe operate it, or close it indefinitely. The plant, which also has a co-gen facility, plays a key role in not only salvage log utilization but also biomass from timberland fuel reduction projects to reduce the risk
of catastrophic wildfire. With so much acreage burned, there are multiple long-term ecological and economic consequences. Gaps in future timber harvests will take a toll on tribal operating budgets: Sales of timber products makes up as much as 30% of the annual tribal budget.
BIEWER PLANS MILL IN MISSISSIPPI Michigan-headquartered Biewer Lumber plans to invest $85 million and build a sawmill in Newton, Miss., creating 125 jobs. Construction of the sawmill is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2016, with mill production coming in early 2017. Biewer Lumber operates two softwood (red pine) sawmills in Michigan and two in Wisconsin, as well as three treating facilities. “Adding the Newton sawmill to our production capabilities will allow us to better serve our existing customers and to expand our customer base geographically,” comments Biewer Lumber owner Tim Biewer. “We are pleased to be locating our new mill in Mississippi, with its abundance of timber, available workforce, and its friendly business environment.” Mississippi Development Authority provided assistance in support of the project for site preparation and rail and road improvements. Newton County and the city of Newton also assisted with the project. The existing Biewer sawmills have the capacity to produce more than 300MMBF annually. They’re located in McBain and Lake City, Mich. and Prentice and Spencer, Wis. Headquarters is in St. Clair, Mich. Biewer Lumber has long been recognized as a regional sawmill leader with modern technology in its sawmills.
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NEWSFEED sissippi and 14 distribution centers which supply hardwood lumber, hardwood plywood, import lumber, decking, and cabinetry components to the millwork and cabinet trades.
HOOD INDUSTRIES BUYS MILES LBR Hood Industries, Inc. has acquired the Joe N. Miles & Sons lumber company. Miles Lumber operates two southern yellow pine sawmills in Silver Creek, Miss. and Bogalusa, La. The acquisition of Miles Lumber adds strategic capacity to Hood Industries’ existing lumber operations and increases the overall product mix available to the combined customer base, according to a Hood Industries statement. Hood Industries operates sawmills in Waynesboro, Miss. and Metcalfe, Ga. Kevin Berkey, Vice President of Lumber & Procurement for Hood Industries, emphasizes that the Miles Lumber sawmills are well managed, efficient operations, and the two companies share similar oper-
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CLEAN POWER PLAN WEIGHS BIOMASS
ating strategies and core values such as safety, environmental compliance, sustainable forestry practices, customer satisfaction, efficient production processes, and a respect for the value of all employees. “The Miles Lumber business is an excellent geographic and cultural fit for Hood Industries,” Berkey says. Former Miles Lumber shareholders, David Miles and Johnny Miles, who have managed the Miles Lumber operations, will remain with
Environmental Protection Agency’s “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units,” also called the “Clean Power Plan,” was published in the Federal Register in mid-October, which launched a 90-day and possibly longer public feedback period before a possible revision and implementation. The EPA plan cracks the door open for new forest biomass power generation as part of renewable energy con-
the business in connection with the transaction. The Miles family lumber tradition began with portable sawmilling in 1933 before establishing their first stationary mill following World War II in Lumberton Miss. They built the Bogalusa mill in 1972 and added the Silver Creek operation in 1975. They shut down Lumberton in the late 1980s. In addition to its lumber operations, Hood Industries operates two southern yellow pine plywood plants in Mis-
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NEWSFEED siderations in the state plans, but doesn’t guarantee acceptance of biomass. Biomass power plants in operation in 2012 or earlier are exempt because only affected EGUs using fossil fuels are subject to emissions reductions requirements. Biomass is defined as a compliance strategy in the CPP. Some industry groups are contesting the Plan’s lack of commitment toward biomass. According to EPA, the Clean Power Plan will reduce carbon pollution from the power sector by 32% (870 million tons less) by 2030, while reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide from power plants by 90% and nitrogen oxides by 72%. Generation from new or expanded facilities that combust qualified biomass to produce electricity can replace generation from affected EGUs.
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However the Plan states, “The use of some kinds of biomass has the potential to offer a wide range of environmental benefits, including carbon benefits. However these benefits can only be realized if biomass feedstocks are sourced responsibly and attributes of the carbon cycle related to the biomass feedstock are taken into account.” The Plan also states, “It is not scientifically valid to assume that all biogenic feedstocks are ‘carbon neutral’ and that the net biogenic CO2 atmospheric contribution of different biogenic feedstocks generally depends on various factors related to feedstock characteristics, production, processing and combustion practices.” The Plan emphasizes the importance of the country’s forests in removing greenhouse gas emissions each year, and emphasizes EPA’s ongoing
role in further scientific assessment of those measurements. Under the Plan, states must submit implementation plans or an initial submittal with an extension request by September 6, 2016, and final complete state plans must be submitted no later than September 6, 2018. The Plan provides 15 years for full implementation of all emission reduction measures. In late December, American Forest & Paper Assn. (AF&PA) and American Wood Council (AWC) filed a joint petition for review in the D.C. Circuit Court over the U.S. Environmental Protec-
tion Agency’s (EPA) treatment of biomass energy in the Clean Power Plan. Robert Glowinski, president and CEO of AWC, comments, “Over 75% of the energy at our member companies’ wood products facilities is generated from biomass. After reviewing EPA’s Clean Power Plan, it appears that the rule may place unnecessary and inappropriate restrictions on states’ use of biomass energy as part of their plans to reduce CO2 emissions from electric power generation. This litigation seeks to protect biomass energy use as a critical component of renewable power.”
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WOMAN By Jessica Johnson
Jill Snider Brewer becomes the first woman to enter the prestigious fraternity of Timber Processing Person of the Year.
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MARSHALL, Tex. ike most modern women, Jill Snider Brewer is many things. She wears multiple hats: wife, mother, friend—and East Texas lumberwoman. The down-toearth Brewer isn’t comfortable with the spotlight, so when she was informed she would be Timber Processing’s 28th annual Man (Woman) of the Year and the first woman to receive the crown, she says she wasn’t even sure she wanted to accept it. Sitting down with TP, the owner of Snider Industries laughs off the idea that being a woman in a man’s world is anything noteworthy. “It’s just not relevant anymore,” she says definitively. Adding: “In all of the years I’ve worked with the SLMA (Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn.) and now on SPIB (Southern Pine Inspection Bureau) I have never felt like they noticed that I was ‘different.’ I’ve always felt like they valued my opinion and respected what I do and where I come from.” A lot of that has to do with her father, the late and highly regarded Ronnie Snider and his philosophy regarding Jill. She was not allowed to simply come and work for the family because her last name was on the door. A valuable skill 14
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that would be a contribution to the overall mission of the company would be her only ticket in—and even then, she would still have to work hard. “My father encouraged me to go find my own place in the world. It never occurred to me I would come back here. I thought I would move to Dallas or something,” she says. “I never worked here during the summer; I never was part of it until I was out of college and had several years working under my belt.” Snider Brewer attended Stephen F. Austin State University and obtained a degree in advertising and computer science. Programming had her heart, not sawmilling. Then after five years working in the IT field in Austin, her father needed to have some of the mill’s custom financial management systems upgraded. Instead of hiring a programmer
Jill Snider Brewer, above pictured with husband and Plant Manager Jimmy Brewer. Below with her father Ronnie Snider
from the outside, he hired his daughter. “He would joke that he’d grown his own programmer,” she remembers with a big smile. “I decided to come back here and rewrite the financial system from COBOL into Oracle. It was going to be
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six months and I was going to go back to Austin.” Coming into the business under those conditions helped Snider Brewer find her place faster. “They needed me immediately after I got here. I started making changes to make everybody’s jobs easier,” she explains. Those changes gave her confidence in what she was doing and her value to the company. “I recall her working on special projects, which included mostly information systems to modernize that part of the business,” reflects Chris Raybon, founding partner at Baxley Equipment and before that Hi-Tech Engineering. “While doing that, I think she learned the ‘Snider Way’ to do business.” Six months of writing a few computer programs turned into 20 years. Snider Brewer remembers a time when her father said very plainly that she could probably do this—she could run the mill—and found herself agreeing. “He asked me what I thought, and of course I thought I could do it too. So we spent the next 13 years working side-by-side, me learning every single aspect of this place.” That meant not only the sawmilling, also the banking, taxation and legal side as well—all of it. Working long hours was an
understatement during the time she had before her dad’s death in 2006. Learning a mill from top to bottom was a daunting task, but she believes that coming in and tweaking the financial management system was a good place to start. Once she had a grasp of how the money worked, how it flowed through the company and impacted every decision that was made, the pieces began to fit together. Snider Brewer says that thanks to her father’s proactive approach to estate management, and the fact that the duo had nothing they didn’t talk about, she was qualified to handle the company. He had laid out for her where to go and who the resources would be for dealing with any situation. “Our company was, and is, very strong. We weathered the downturn with little to no ill effect. In our business, the market is always coming back; you don’t always know when it might come back, but it always comes back.” When the time came for her to take over, she felt very comfortable—and has been doing it for almost 10 years now. “Following the death of her father, Jill stepped up and the company has continued to prosper and grow,” adds Baxley’s Raybon. “Her almost unique willingness to join the family business as a female
and ultimately take over the company and successfully run it, makes her a great Person of the Year for our industry.” Snider Industries is organized as a partnership with Snider Brewer owning 99.999%. Her title is General Partner, which is akin to CEO. As General Partner she is responsible for managing forestry, accounting, finance and lumber sales. Her husband Jimmy Brewer is the Plant Manager and oversees everything regarding the mill itself. “I would say pretty much outside of the office building, he manages the staff; I manage him,” she says with a big laugh, which merits the quip “I am woman hear me roar,” from Brewer in response to his wife. Married since 2011, but best of friends for many years before, they have an easy partnership and both are thorough and knowledgeable about the business, which has long been known as a high volume specialized manufacturer of southern pine 1 in. boards. Buying timberlands and any kind of deal making to be done is on her, which she loves. Jimmy Brewer has been the Plant Manager since he came to Snider Industries in 1999. Both feel that everywhere they turn, Ronnie Snider’s imprint is visible. According to Snider Brewer her father
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knew every nut and bolt of Snider Industries, knew how to get the most out of every process, but also enjoyed deal making, or deciphering the tax code to the benefit of the company. “He had no hobbies, none,” she says. “This was in his blood; it was his life. I admired him and I also paid attention. It has always been my intention to honor the legacy, the work he put in.” But she does not just honor his legacy in the philosophical sense—she runs the mill nearly exactly as he did, adhering to his principles about machinery and engineering decisions. Both her and Jimmy admit they spent many hours learning from him about his thought processes.
HER STAMP For Snider Brewer, the sawmill business is about longevity, and every decision is driven by the idea that 30 years from now the company will still be operating in a similar fashion. She explains, “I’m not trying to
entering something in a spreadsheet today and next week take that and enter it into another spreadsheet.” The office staff is lean and mean; two people work four days a week running the accounting side. One salesman works remotely from Florida. Jimmy thinks that’s possible thanks to the streamlined system Jill designed. She shrugs and says that she tries not to over-tech things, but believes steadfastly in efficiency. “I believe in technology where it is useful. You have to evaluate the situation, and find out if it makes sense. Then find the very best technology you can and put it in.” The system integrates everything relating to Snider Industries. Using the web-based interface, users can see logs brought in, lumber sales and by-product sales. The company’s two software systems, one for timberlands management and one for accounting, also allows three foresters (two in procurement one in timberland management) to handle 50,000 acres of company owned timberland— including keeping track of oil and gas ac-
While Snider Brewer gives her father the credit for designing the mill, she keeps his philosophies close to heart in her daily decision making.
change and reinvent the wheel. What I try to do is do what we’ve always done and do it better and more efficiently. I try to integrate technology where it needs to be integrated.” She calls her technical background one of her biggest strengths. Then the time came for updating her original business management system. “I researched all the software packages that are available for our industry and none of them did what my system did,” she says. “We had all gotten so comfortable, because whatever we wanted to make part of our system, I wrote it. So I thought let’s just do it that way, it would be streamlined and quick; you wouldn’t be 16
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tivities. Snider Brewer says that the company does not own a lot of oil and gas mineral rights, but the amount of surface operations from oil and gas companies they do have is sizable, and must be negotiated and accounted for any time a drilling operation comes across them.
INVOLVEMENT Snider Brewer is active in industry organizations as part of her commitment to the longevity of not only her own company, but also the sawmill business as a whole. When she first began working full time at the plant in 1993, she says she im-
mediately got involved with SLMA. Over time her involvement grew and she has served on both the board of SLMA as well as serving as one of the three SLMA representatives to the Southern Pine Council steering committee. “The thing about being in a sawmill is we’re all sort of isolated in our woods,” she says. “You get focused on what you’re doing. Those organizations helped me see the big picture of what goes on across the South. Being able to talk to different people and see how they do it, I am always amazed at how different everyone does it. Even though we all cut up logs and make them into lumber, our philosophies and how we accomplish that is vastly different.” After some personal challenges that demanded her attention, including the death of both her first husband, Craig Parr, timberlands manager at the company, and then of her father 18 months afterward, she took a hiatus from her commitments in 2005, but was able to find her footing and got back involved in 2009. She went back on the board of SLMA and still serves. Snider Brewer says one of her most enjoyable duties on the SLMA board is participating in the annual Washington, DC fly-in. She says she’s kind of quiet by nature, so having the chance to go lobby about issues close to her business is fun with the added benefit of making certain her voice, and the voice of the industry, is heard. Like many in this business, Snider Brewer is frustrated by over-the-top regulations concerning the environment. “I also think the taxation for what we do is out of control, so making certain they understand that one word in a bill can dramatically affect each and every one of us is important,” she says. Getting the chance to meet with lawmakers and their staffers is a very cool experience, she adds, but the best part is knowing that her point of view might be better understood. Two years ago the SPIB asked her if she had interest in serving on the Board of Governors. Snider Brewer says prior to getting involved with SPIB in this capacity, the mill never really interacted with SPIB beyond regular mill inspections, which focuses on product quality standards, grading and manufacturing practices. “Jill has been wonderful to work with,” comment SPIB President Steve Singleton, himself a former TP Man of the Year when he worked for CanforNew South. “She is a good leader and business manager, also very personable. I visited Snider Industries recently and it
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was a real pleasure to visit a well-kept family owned and operated sawmill.”
support many local non-profits. Without the support of her husband and staff, whom she says makes it possible for her to be able to go to school meetings and her daughters’ activities and the like, Snider Brewer thinks it would be much harder to balance being a mother and being a lumberwoman. She never feels guilty for having to miss any of their activities because of her demanding job. Instead, she believes it is something her kids can be proud of.
When asked if she believes she too is growing another generation of lumberwomen, Snider Brewer shakes her head with a smile and subscribes to the same FAMILY LIFE vein of thinking her father did. Her chilBeing heavily involved in the industry dren will not come into the business unless while also running a mill is not without they have a skill set that furthers the mischallenges, especially when you factor in sion after first going out into the world and three daughters—Lucy, 17, Olivia, 14, and having to make their own way. Lillie, 11. Snider Brewer is a meticulous “They don’t ever need to grow up thinkplanner and tries to never miss a meeting ing I’ve got this, I’m just going to go work at the school or one of her daughters’ farfor the family,” she says. “Our kids don’t flung horse shows. believe they are invited to work for Her three daughters ride in the family. That’s really important to hunter-jumper equestrian competime. If they grow up with that sort of tions, a hobby Snider Brewer thinking, that ruins them. They need shares with them. “I’m the support to go work for other people who have staff,” she says with a laugh. She high expectations and that if they also sits on the board of directors don’t meet those expectations they for the school they attended, servget fired,” she says firmly. ing as president for a few years. Her commitment to the business Snider Brewer’s family has lived and the ideals established by her faTaken in 2002, this photo comes from a presentation of a ther are very clear. She repeatedly in Marshall since before the Civil mill-wide effort to surprise Ronnie Snider with pictures of War, but Snider Brewer says she says it isn’t her management style or the mill's operations and people. As Snider Brewer says and the mill usually fly under the system implementation that has made of the event, "He really inspired people. I guess you could radar. “There are people I went to the company a success; instead it is say these are two of my favorite guys!" high school with who do not know her father’s ideals, and the people that there is a sawmill outside of town. I think “They appreciate that their mom and work for her. “All of us have been together it’s better that way. I tend to want our dad work really hard and see that as an forever, we all know our jobs and we do company to focus on what we do, so we example. It is more important for them to them,” she says. “I think that’s why if anycan do it as well as we can.” The mill see their parents making something that thing, they all should share in this, not just does not sell locally, which virtually elim- we are all a part of—the whole family me. I feel like all of us have won it. The inates a local presence. However, Snider and continuing the legacy that I hope team that we are is what makes this place TP Industries and the Snider Brewer family they are very proud of,” she says. so special.”
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Snider Industries has three primary breakdown lines: a Cox carriage with circle saw and two MAC C-frames.
one of the original components of the mill. Brewer says they really only use the headrig to breakdown oversized logs that the Cframes cannot handle. When asked about the everlasting Cframes, Brewer says he can only repeat what Ronnie Snider told him many years
ago: “The accuracy of the C-frames and the type of timber we have in our area is a perfect match.” Brewer adds that position of the log once it rolls into the C-frame, and the lack of motion once it is scanned is a major benefit. “The tables will skew to get the
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perfect opening faces. We’re a 55MMBF per year mill—that’s 110MMBF per year if you think about a 2 in. mill because of the high piece count. When you think of the saw lines and the volume we’re pushing through, making certain every single piece is manufactured properly, it’s not about speed, it’s about accuracy.” Once broken down on the C-frames, cants travel to five Esterer sash gangs and lumber goes to one of six 48 in. Modern Iron board edgers. If broken down on the headrig, cants travel to a reman edger. From there, cants are moved to an optimizer/sorter/trimmer combination that was originally manufactured by HEMCO but has since been converted and upgraded by Baxley Equipment. Lumber then moves to an IrvingtonMoore chain arm stacker before traveling on a Irvington-Moore transfer car to one of the four newly installed two track conventional USNR dry kilns. The way Snider Industries dries its lumber is part of what Snider Brewer calls the “special sauce.” Lumber is tracked into the kilns to dry at a lower temperature (approximately 185°) for a longer than average amount of time. Snider Brewer feels this helps make the finished boards pliable and have excellent milling properties.
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Logs are unloaded by a 60, 000 lb. Letourneau log stacker.
Choices made in the manufacturing process are geared to principles laid out by Ronnie Snider, who had yield on his mind. Snider Brewer calls it his vision. “Since 1971 they made the decision that they would only cut one inch southern yellow pine boards, so from 1971 to present every engineering decision, every production decision has been how do we make the most boards at the highest quality for the lowest cost. Part of that is
laying this plant out in a way to minimize the loss,” she explains. That vision is why the lumber is kiln dried for 60 hours, why sling sorters are used throughout the mill and why everything is on tracks. Snider Brewer says that the slings are overall gentler on the lumber. If you are rough with a 1x12 16 ft. board, the biggest board Snider makes, edges get broken or cracked, she says, rendering them useless to cus-
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patterns, as well as a HEMCO package maker and compression station with HiTech/Baxley controls and a Signode strapper.
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The mill produces 55MMBF of 1 in. SYP annually, which Snider Brewer says requires a lot of attention to detail during the manufacturing process.
tomers; by using sling sorters all the way through the mill, they are able to get the most lumber out of the back end. The facility also has a 45 bay HEMCO sling sorter and trimmer with Baxley Equipment controls and Lucidyne grade mark reader in the planer mill. By using tracks to move lumber throughout the process, there is less damage. Lumber is not touched by lifts until bundles are put in the covered
warehouse for shipping. Brewer sums up the vision well, “The more lumber that makes it to the warehouse, the better off we are.” Snider Industries cuts solely for yield with grades of #3, #2 and D & Better. Thirty-five percent of production is pattern work: siding, paneling, flooring, center match and beaded ceiling. The planer mill uses a Yates-American A-25 planer machine with double profiles for
Since 1983, Snider Industries has been producing its own power, which Snider Brewer says has been one of the best things to happen to the facility, synergistically speaking. “My father came up with the idea after watching and knowing paper mills generate all their own electricity. He knew we had enough waste material and set about taking advantage of the federal rules that encouraged green power at the time,” she explains. The mill has been enjoying it ever since. The 5MW facility creates the steam needed to dry lumber, while providing all the other electrical needs. What the plant does not consume is sold on the grid. Snider Brewer says that selling power onto the grid has been a great revenue stream— especially when natural gas prices were incredibly high. “Under the original agreement the public utility is required to buy our power at the highest rated fuel cost. So for years and years that was natural gas;
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for every kilowatt we sell they have to pay us as if they are buying their highest priced fuel, they have no choice. They still do, we’re in a pocket of Texas that is still regulated, and they are still bound because of the federal law.” As a side bonus for Snider Industries, the cogen plant also creates renewable energy credits (RECs), all of which are sold for yet another revenue stream. For the most part, the boiler is powered by Snider Industries’ own sawdust and offspec chips, though some supplemental boiler fuel is brought in. Steam is generated using a Wellons 60,000 lb. boiler and a Westinghouse 5 MW turbine generator. A cooling water lake on the property helps convert the steam used in the kilns back to water, before being pumped back into the boiler using two 5,000 GPM pumps. Snider's Hi-Tech trimmer with Baxley optimizer moves at a rate of 100 lugs per minute.
MARKETS One salesman, David Hanson, handles all lumber sales. Snider Brewer says the mill has three main advantages when it comes to selling and shipping lumber: they do not provide trucking, offer the ability for customers to see what is currently ready to ship and check the status of their orders as part of a web-based system and trucks are loaded under cover in the 5 acre Snider warehouse. Snider Brewer says that since customers are responsible for coordinating their own trucking, it’s hard to say where the lumber ends up. “You might have someone whose buying lumber in Vancouver but shipping it to Mobile, Ala. We sell a lot into the Texas market and Mexico and the Caribbean. Pretty much Dallas east and north.” She estimates that about 12 loads of chips per day are created as residuals and are shipped to the Domtar paper mill in Ashdown, Ark.
The decision to add a cogen to the mill has proved to be extremely profitable, especially when natural gas prices were high.
MAINTENANCE Snider Industries employs 120, of which 110 are in-mill hourly employees. Operators are in charge of taking care of their own equipment after hours and on Saturdays. The mill runs five 10s, with one scheduled outage at the end of December each year. A staff of maintenance and electrical personnel take care of all PLC programming and things relating to the power plant. For Brewer, the biggest challenge with maintenance is parts availability with the C-frame, since MAC Industries is no longer in business. He says that with a local machine shop they make most parts themselves, using original drawings of the equipment. TP 22
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By Jay Donnell
The Anderson family hardwood lumber operation is one of the most impressive going.
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TOMPKINSVILLE, Ky. hen Roy Anderson started Roy Anderson Lumber in 1950, there’s no way he could have envisioned what it would turn into under the direction of his two sons, David and Lowery. However, he did catch a glimpse near the end of his career. The company started off as a stave and circular grade mill, a period when Roy learned a lot about logs and log procurement. In 1952 Roy went to NHLA lumber grading school and graduated from the eighth class in the program’s history. The company continued to transition into the grade lumber business and became a steady force into the 1980s. Though the sons had worked for their father throughout high school, they had other plans. David was working on a premed degree and Lowery was in law school at Vanderbilt. Their father told them that if they wanted to take over the
business he would step out. David joined the business in 1989 and several months later in 1990 Lowery came on. The operation consisted of two circle mills and a gang edger. Roy knew the business was in good hands with his sons and decided to retire in 1992 in order to focus more on his first love, farming. In 1992, David and Lowery started an adjacent dry kiln operation, known as Anderson Bros. Hardwoods, and by 1996 had brought dry kiln capacity up to 410MBF per charge. In 1996 they converted the circle mills to a bandmill and resaw line, increasing production from 7MMBF to 13MMBF annually. Their father’s only comment was they should have done it 20 years earlier. “Every time we expanded and grew he was amazed,” David recalls. Additional dry kilns increased dry kiln capacity to 620MBF in 1997.
In 2000 the family purchased Bastin Lumber in Eubank, Ky. Bastin had constructed a new modern band mill in 1998 and also had 250MBF of dry kiln capacity. This operation became East Anderson Hardwoods, LLC. At the time the combined sawmill production was 25MMBF. Roy Anderson passed away in 2002, but he left behind some valuable lessons for his two sons. “We learned about being conservative from our father,” David says. “We don’t expand on anything unless we really know for sure that it’s going to be a success. Since we’ve managed conservatively, the health of the business is in tact and always has been.” The Andersons continued to make improvements—an additional bandmill at Tompkinsville in 2002; a ring debarker and bay sorter with grading station and optimized double end trimmer in 2008 and a resaw to complement a second
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Poplar and red oak were primary species sawn in 2015, but many others as well.
headrig in 2009. By 2010, company lumber production was 35MMBF. East Anderson Hardwoods added dry kiln capacity in 2011-2012, bringing the total to 450MBF per charge. Production today tops 45MMBF annually combined (30MMBF at Tompkinsville and 16MMBF at Eubank). Kiln capacity is 1.1MMBF per charge and air dry storage under shed exceeds 7MMBF and more than 500MBF of forced air fan sheds. Production lumber thicknesses range from 4⁄4 through 16⁄4 and in lengths from 616 ft. at both mills. David manages operations in Tompkinsville, including the sawmill and kilns, while Lowery manages all operations at East Anderson Hardwoods and directs sales for all operations. Tompkinsville site runs two mills. David Anderson, sitting, and Lowery Anderson have guided the Anderson hardwood lumber operations to the next level.
QUALITY For many years Roy Anderson Lumber was like most other hardwood mills, David notes. They were strictly an NHLA lumber grading sales company, but over the years they have moved toward more customer oriented grades and grading the same for its domestic business as they always did for their export business, which for years was always different. “We would grade one way for our domestic business and grade the lumber harder and the yield would be better for our export customers,” David explains. “A few years ago we decided to be the same across the board. We started grading the lumber better than NHLA for domestic customers as well. We really improved our domestic sales.” International sales account for about 40% of lumber sales, which is considerably more than a decade ago. The bulk of that is in China, along with Vietnam,
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Filing room includes three Armstrong stretcher rolls.
Taiwan and Indonesia and generally Asia, with some lumber continuing to go to Europe and also into Mexico. International shipments are exported through the Nashville, Tenn. rail yard. David mentions another lesson learned from their father: honesty and loyalty. “If you’re loyal to your customers then your customers will be loyal to you. If you go chasing the highest dollar all of the time that’s not always the best thing. Steady long-term relationships are worth more than a few dollars extra here and there.” Anderson Transport is a fully equipped transportation company, which operates 19 (mainly Mack) tractors for the movement of logs, lumber, crossties, chips and sawdust for Roy Anderson Lumber Co., and mulch products and ANDERSOFT playground base for Anderson Mulch and Soil. All 140 plus pieces of rolling stock in the Tompkinsville operations are maintained through a 9,000 sq. ft. heated floor maintenance shop with a 2,400 sq. ft. tire shop and an attached permitted 1,800 sq. ft. wash bay.
OPERATIONS Their father also emphasized the finer points of buying timber. “If you don’t buy the right timber and you don’t handle the timber in the woods correctly you don’t have a chance of making it on the other end,” David says. The two sawmills deal with as many as 100 loggers, with a quarter of the force in Tennessee. Roy Anderson Lumber buys timber and timberlands and runs several log yards in Kentucky and Tennessee. They also operate what they refer to as rolling log yards, which means they’ll go out and buy the logs on site, mark them and have them cut up to specifications TIMBER PROCESSING
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and haul them themselves. All of the log procurement is done in house. The only problem the company had with log supply last year was during the summer due to wet weather and an exceptional amount of rain, especially in a band that ran through the northern half of Tennessee and the southern half of Kentucky. The mills only saw grade logs, mean-
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ing they resell all of the tie logs and pallet grade logs. “There’s more timber now than we’ve had in the past, but the quality is not quite as good as it has been and I think it’s going to continue to decline,” David adds. As for the available logging force, David says good loggers are becoming increasingly more difficult to find be-
cause of the younger work force staying away from the difficult work in the woods. In 2015 poplar (37%) and red oak (28%) accounted for more than twothirds of species production at Tompkinsville, followed by white oak, then ash, hard maple and hickory and smaller amounts of walnut, beech, cherry and soft maple. All log procurement information is collected on Forestry Systems YARDMASTER log system using an assortment of mobile handheld computers. Timber Processing visited the mill in Tompkinsville, which produces approximately 10MBF per hour of hardwood lumber, pallet cants and crossties. They use Volvo loaders to unload logs and feed the mill. Once the logs hit the mill they go through a Nicholson A6 35 in. ring debarker (oversize logs are run through an inline rosserhead debarker). Logs proceed through a Rens metal detector and can be kicked out of the process or move into one of two mills. Before logs enter the mill they are inspected and marked according to best opening faces. Mill #1 uses a Brownsville log turner and Corley three headblock linear positioning carriage with Tyrone-Berry 385 hydraulic shotgun feed. The primary breakdown headrig is a 6-7A McDonough bandmill. The setworks in the saw cab is the READYSCAN 2 with SHAPESCAN optimization by Lewis Controls. The secondary breakdown is a Corley resaw with linear positioning setworks, prepositioning cab, 180 degree cant return and a crosstie/band cant ejection chain deck. The downstream edger is a Corley three saw bottom arbor edger with laser saw line guides. All lumber and cants from Mill #1 flow onto the sorter line accumulation deck. Mill #2 has a 17° tiled Filer & Stowell three headblock linear positioning carriage with hydraulic shotgun feed. The primary breakdown headrig is a 17° tilted 7 ft. Filer & Stowell bandmill; again with READYSCAN 2 setworks and SHAPESCAN optimization from Lewis Controls. The secondary breakdown includes a 7 ft. Salem resaw with cant return and ejection chain check. Downstream edger is a Corley three saw bottom arbor edger with LAZER BLAZER saw line guides. Lumber and cants proceed onto the sorter line. The band saw filing room is equipped with four #4 Armstrong grinders. Each grinder is set for a 2 in. tooth spacing and a 30° hook angle. Each grinder has been upgraded with a linear slide grind-
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Anderson philosophy: “If you’re loyal to your customers, your customers will be loyal to you.”
EAST ANDERSON SETS OWN PACE
eanwhile at East Anderson Hardwoods production is approximately M 5.8MBF per hour of hardwood lumber and pallet cants. Red oak was the primary species in 2015 (41%), followed by poplar (25%), then white oak, followed by ash and hard maple and smaller amounts of hickory, soft maple, cherry and walnut. The site has the capability to put 1.2MMBF of logs under water on the log yard. Logs enter the mill and are debarked on a Salem rosserhead debarker and pass through an MDI metal detector. The primary breakdown is a 7 ft. Salem bandmill with a titled Salem carriage and Tyrone hydraulic shotgun feed. The optimization technology on the headrig is a Lewis Controls vertical scanner. The secondary breakdown is a Salem 7 ft. resaw with a prepositioning cab and semicircular return. The edger is an automated Salem edger retrofitted with a Lewis Controls optimizing scanner bar and software. Lumber proceeds to a two inspector grading station with Shark-Fin turners. Using Softac software and a Lucidyne grade mark reader, the lumber is tallied and scanned to optimize the trim length for the 16 ft. Salem double-end trimmer. Lumber is sorted in an 18 bay Salem J-bar sorter and stacked either on Breeze-dried stacking sticks or flat piled to ship green. Tallies are printed for every bundle. The stacker is a 6 ft. Salem stacker with manual stick layers. Excess lumber is ejected from the sorter and manually stacked. The dry kilns consist of four masonry kilns with a capacity of 60MBF each and two aluminum kilns with 100MBF capacity each. The kilns are supported by air drying buildings able to store 2.2MMBF, and there are also forced air fan sheds able to hold 150MBF at one time. The boiler is a 150 HP Hurst low pressure, green waste burning boiler. Dust is fed to the boiler using a walking floor. Lumber inspection is on a Froedge desticking line. It includes a tilt hoist and single board dealer. Lumber is tallied on a Picture Tally forklift loaded system with scales. The inventory and purchase order system are both by Picture Tally. The mill has recently added an infeed line and unscrambler to allow green lumber from other mills (whether purchased or simply transferred from Roy Anderson Lumber) to be processed and dried. This will help if lumber inventory falls too low. Byproducts are significant here as well, with nearly 23,000 tons of hardwood chips sold to paper mills and charcoal plants; 22,500 yards of bark used by Anderson Mulch & Soil; and 8,000 tons of dust sold to horse farms or used in the TP wood-waste fired boiler. 30
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ing head which has significantly reduced grinding wheel waste and cost, while improving the grind quality of each band saw. There are also three #4 Armstrong stretcher rolls. Oleson band saws are used with a .150 kerf. Also in use is an Armstrong shaper and a Hanchett swage. Two Lincoln electric TIG welders are used in band saw repairs due to their precise welding capabilities. The sorter line utilizes a 290 ft. heavy duty accumulation deck where the lumber from both mills and any outside/outsourced lumber is staged for further processing. Lumber and cants are processed across a tilted deck three inspector grading station with Shark Fin board turners at each station. A Lucidyne grade mark reader collects the individual board data for a Softac optimized 16 ft. double end trimmer and downstream sorting. All lumber and cants are sorted across a 31 bay Morris-Softac sorter. The sorted lumber and cants are selectively treated with an anti-stain solution using a Froedge stainless steel transverse spray system before packaging for green shipment or stickered for kiln drying using a Morris-Softac 6 ft. stacker; 6 ft. Breeze-Dried sticks placed every foot are used on all stickered lumber. An assortment of Hyster forklifts transport lumber throughout the kiln drying process. After the appropriate amount of air drying/forced air drying the lumber is kiln dried in one of the SII package kilns. The kilns consist of four 50MBF masonry/aluminum SII package kilns, two 110MBF masonry/aluminum SII design center fan kilns and three 70MBF aluminum/stainless steel SII package kilns. These account for 620MBF of per loaded kiln charge capacity. The kilns are monitored using the SII SAMPLE WATCH in-kiln weighing system. All of the kilns have electric power vents and frequency driven fan motors. Steam heat is supplied by a 300 HP wood-waste fired boiler as is a 30,000 package steamer from SII. The kilns are supported by metal covered air drying buildings with a loaded capacity of 4.8MMBF, and there are also metal forced air fan sheds with a loaded capacity of 350MBF. Once the lumber is kiln dried it is inspected across a Froedge side by side double inspection station with tilt hoists, board dealers, frequency driven chain decks and sticker stacker. Lumber is packaged for shipment by hand or with a Froedge package maker. Packaged lumber is tallied on a Picture Tally forklift loaded system with
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At right, Bruce Johnson (controller) keeps operations in check for David Anderson.
RAL at Tompkinsville has 620MBF of kiln drying charge capacity.
Fairbanks scales. The inventory and purchase order systems are both by Picture Tally. Nothing goes to waste, as nearly 15,000 tons of sawdust annually are used in the wood-waste fired boiler or sold to chicken farmers and charcoal plants. Some 34,000 tons of hardwood chips are used to produce hardwood mulch and certified playground underlayment or sold to paper mills and charcoal plants. And 41,000 yards of bark are used by Anderson Mulch & Soil to produce hardwood bark mulch. The Andersons started Anderson Mulch and Soil in 2013 to produce and market mulch, playground chips and other landscaping products. A 100,000 square foot concrete pad is located adjacent Roy Anderson Lumber Co. where two Volvo loaders with high tip buckets collect all of the hardwood bark for processing into aged hardwood bark mulch. Vermeer TG7000 and TG5000 tub grinders do the bulk of the work breaking down bark into mulch. Hardwood chips are also processed through the tub grinders before product sizing through a Power Screen 830 trommel screen to create ANDERSOFT playground base and hardwood fiber mulch. A Morbark 5000S N-VIRO mulch coloring unit is used to dye any product to customer specifications. 32
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Anderson Mulch & Soil LLC started up in 2013.
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The Tompkinsville location employs 145 while 80 employees work at East Anderson. They run two shifts in Tompkinsville and one shift in Eubank. The company implemented a pre-employment drug testing policy which has helped make turnover less of an issue and they’ve also started post accident drug testing. “We started drug testing about four years ago and I’ve noticed a huge workers’ comp difference,” David says. “Our post accident drug testing has really helped slow down the accidents.” David is the Chairman of the Kentucky Forest Industries workers’ comp fund. Key employees throughout operations in addition to David and Lowery are Bruce Johnson, controller; Anthony Hammond, lead salesman; Kenny Humes, mill manager at Roy Anderson Lumber; Kenny Knott and Brett Crowe, log buyers; Eddy Burnette, mulch & soil manager; John Yokley, dry kiln & domestic shipping manager at RAL; Chance Copas, rolling stock shop manager; Bryan Crowe, dry kiln and domestic shipping manager at EAH; and Ricky Paull, mill manager at EAH. The small community of Tompkinsville sees Roy Anderson Lumber as a staple and is very supportive. “We’re in a small community that has been hit hard by NAFTA. There aren’t a lot of places for someone to work in Tompkinsville,” David explains. “Employing 140-plus people and being one of the back bones of the community is what helps motivate me. People depend on us to stay competitive in this industry and to keep all of our people employed and thriving.” Roy Anderson Lumber gives back to the community in other ways, too, including helping out the school system. The company makes donations to Monroe County High School and funded a much needed computer lab for the school, which is named the Roy Anderson Lumber Company Computer Lab. “Education is a big part of where we spend our spare money,” David says. “We make sure we keep the computer lab up to date and keep it as technologically advanced as possible.” David and Lowery are both avid golfers as well as big fans of University of Kentucky athletics. Lowery enjoys traveling and David loves to quail hunt in his spare time. The company is a member of National Hardwood Lumber Assn., Kentucky Forest Industries Assn., Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, Inc. and American Hardwood Export Council. TP
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Comact Opens Facilities In Mirabel
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awmill equipment manufacturer Comact hosted the grand opening of its facilities in Mirabel, Quebec in December. The event attracted more than 200, including clients and business partners. “This building was designed to reflect our cutting-edge technology as well as our highly-qualified personnel,” states Stéphane Desjardins, Vice-President for Optimization. Brian Fehr, Chairman and Managing director of the BID Group, and Alistair Cook, President and CEO of the BID Group, spoke of the company’s commitment to its industry and clientele. “As an industry leader, we wanted to offer our clients an experience at the height of the
Open house drew more than 200.
quality of our products and services,” Fehr commented. Fehr and Cook also seized the opportunity to break the news about the acquisition of WaneShear Technologies, LLC and the integration of Ron McGehee and his talented team to the BID Group. During the grand opening, Comact clients and partners toured the facilities. Technical seminars concerning the company’s latest developments in products and services were offered in the afternoon. The new workplace provides a dedicated space for testing as well as training for the company’s clients in addition to enabling better customer service and the optimization of working methods. The new offices house more than 110 people in state-of-the-art spaces. The Optimization services, the aftersales service team and calling center as well as the administrative staff will work at Mirabel. “With these new developments, our working environment will be better suited for the preparation of equipment and it will facilitate teamwork, inducing
change in our methods of work and, ultimately, will be a great added-value for our customers. Furthermore, our new area fully dedicated to customer tests will allow them to validate the potential of our products in a comfortable, realistic and safe environment,” Desjardins comments.
BID Group Acquires McGehee’s WaneShear The BID Group of Companies has acquired WaneShear Technologies, LLC of Ukiah, Calif., and announced that WaneShear principal Ron McGehee and his talented team have joined BID Group and will relocate to Comact’s facility in St. George, South Carolina. “Adding Ron McGehee and his experienced team expands our equipment and service product lines including the new Profiling Machine for primary and secondary breakdown systems,” comments Alistair Cook, CEO of the BID Group. The privately owned BID Group family of companies also includes Comact, PHL, Deltech, SEC, Miller and BID Group Construction. The company has offices in 14 locations in North America.
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MACHINERYROW GS Group Launches Sudoma Sawmill Sudoma sawmill held its grand opening in November in the village of Dedovichi, Pskov region, Russia. The Sudoma general investor—GS Group holding company—invested more than 1.842 billion rubles ($23 million) into the project. Sergei Donskoi, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation; Andrey Turchak, Governor of the Pskov region; and Artem Starodubtsev, Director of the GS Group forest industry complex, attended the event. The Sudoma sawmill manufactures high quality finish materials: thermotreated and impregnated timber and profiled goods. Production capacity of the sawmill is 61,000 m3 (26MMBF) annually. Around 40% of manufactured materials will be delivered to the Russian market, with the remainder exported. Equipment from EWD, Weinig, Polytechnik and other leading companies is installed on a total area of more than 24,000 m2. Sudoma is the only producer
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in Russia applying the special French technology of heating the timber to 230° C. The sawmill is fitted with modern drying chambers and the trolleys that can significantly reduce the time of loading and unloading the ready-made products. The new plant provided the Pskov region with more than 150 jobs for both local residents and the leading engineers from all over Russia. GS Group offers professional training for its future employees. The Sudoma sawmill is the key enterprise of the unique Dedovichi production facility complex for deep wood process-
ing, which is developed by GS Group in the Pskov region. The forestry division provides Sudoma with the raw material—spruce, pine, aspen and birch are used for processing. Hardwood is the major material, which ensures less damage to the regional forest resources. In addition, the complex also includes a forest nursery that provides reforestation and replacement of deciduous trees by coniferous that are more valuable. “Launching the plant is a part of the GS Group large-scale project aimed at creating the Dedovichi forest industry complex, which should bring more than 3 billion rubles of investment to the region and provide the area with over 400 jobs,” comments Governor Turchak. “Moreover, Sudoma is among the first companies in the region that processes wood instead of exporting the rough logs. Finally, this is a bright example of a responsible forest management when production of the demanded materials is combined with reforestation by replacing the used wood with more valuable species, cultivated in the forest nursery.”
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MACHINERYROW Measurement Canada Certifies Scanner Springer-Microtec reports that the Microtec Logeye scanner has been tested and certified by Measurement Canada to meet the Terms and Conditions for the Approval of Timber Dimension Measuring Devices. The first stage of testing was done in the lab in Ottawa at the end of September, and then the scanner was installed in the bucking line of a BC sawmill. The second stage of testing was completed under actual operating conditions, leading to official approval in October. Previously, the mill was required to manually scale 100% of its logs off site. Together with the Ministry of Forests of BC, the mill, and Microtec, a pilot project was designed to use the measurements of the sealed scanner for payment. As a result, manual scaling has been reduced from 100% to approximately 2.5%. In addition to scanning the volume, the data is also used for bucking optimization. All measurements
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Williams & White Leader Passes Christopher Conrad (Con) Williams, former president of Williams and White, died December 12. He was 62. A wonderful husband, father, biker and friend, Con began his work at Williams and White at age 12. He became the president, heart and soul of the company. Con was a recognized leader in the manufacturing industry and a pioneer in the world of saw and knife maintenance. “His legacy in this business will live on for generations to come.” He is predeceased by his parents Christopher and Margaret E (Woodcock) Williams. He is survived by his wife, Patricia (Aldred), his sons Matthew (Maria), Justin, sister Denalda (Chris), aunts Denalda Soyama and Betty King, stepsons Russell and Stephen and adored grandchildren Christian and Stella. A celebration of his life was held January 2 at Victory Memorial Gardens in Surrey, BC. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, Diabetes Society, or the Michael Cuccione Foundation.
are compiled and sent to the province’s H.B.S. (Harvest Billing System). By drastically reducing the manpower and log handling involved in the process, the Microtec Logeye scanner reduces scaling costs while providing accurate log measurements for trade.
TerraSource Global Counts On Burlage TerraSource Global, a provider of material handling and size reduction solutions, has appointed Jason Burlage as president, succeeding Mark Kohler, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Burlage joined TerraSource Global in 2014 as vice president of Service and Strategy, after 14 years within the portfolio of Hillenbrand Inc., TerraSource Global’s parent company. “TerraSource Global was built from a heritage of quality, collaboration and trust created by three industry leaders,” Burlage comments. “We’re expanding on that heritage
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MACHINERYROW today, ensuring that customers benefit from the full breadth of our expertise, crossing a wide range of industries, applications and geographies. Whatever the material handling or size reduction challenge, we are ready to help our customers develop, deploy and maintain the ideal solution.” TerraSource Global comprises Gundlach Crushers, Jeffrey Rader and Pennsylvania Crusher to deliver a full range of solutions covering every stage of the customer lifecycle, from application design to equipment build and installation to ongoing
field service and quality OEM parts. In 2015, the company enhanced sales and service processes across its global footprint, and is working to stay ahead of customers’ evolving needs in existing and key emerging markets. The company has expanded resources in Asia and Russia. The expansion includes the opening of new manufacturing and procurement facilities in Wuxi, China and a warehouse and field service hub in Russia, complementing facilities in the U.S., Canada, India, and Sweden, and independent sales agents in more than 30 countries on six continents.
Hyster-Yale Streamlines Name Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc., which designs, engineers, manufactures, sells and services a comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts marketed globally primarily under the Hyster and Yale brand names, will change its corporate name to HysterYale Group, Inc. Also, in connection with this name change, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. and Hyster-Yale Group, Inc. will adopt a new corporate logo. The name change is designed to reinforce Hyster-Yale Group’s position as the operating company under Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. and to eliminate any confusion created by continuing to use NACCO in the operating company name subsequent to the 2012 spin-off of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling from NACCO Industries, Inc.
EXPO Richmond Set May 13-14 Sales of exhibit space for the 35th East Coast Sawmill and Logging Equipment Exposition (EXPO Richmond 2016) are pacing well ahead of schedule with more than 68% of the available space committed as of early December, according to show organizers. The exposition is scheduled for May 13-14, 2016 at Richmond Raceway complex in Richmond, Va. and will showcase sawmill, logging, pallet and related manufacturing equipment, supplies and services. The event is co-sponsored by Virginia Forest Products Assn. and Cooperative Extension Service of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. ➤ 46
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MACHINERYROW 44 ➤ Attendees respond on satisfaction surveys that EXPO Richmond provides a unique and hands-on opportunity to compare their current equipment to the latest, most technologically advanced equipment on the market. The extensive amount of equipment displayed, along with active product demonstrations both indoors and out, provides for the special “hands-on” aspect of the Richmond show. For more information about exhibiting or attending, contact EXPO Richmond, Box 160, Sandston, VA 23150-0160. Phone 804-737-5625; fax: 804-7379437; e-mail: Info@exporichmond.com. Visit exporichmond.com.
Sawmills Continue Upgrade Projects USNR reported brisk sawmill business, including the following: l Collums Lumber in Allendale, SC is updating its lumber handling capabilities with a double unscrambler and ElectraTong lug loader at its mill that produces lumber up to 12 in. wide and 16 ft. long. l D.R. Johnson’s Riddle Laminators
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operation in Riddle, Ore. is expanding its new USNR CLT press from 24 to 30 ft. l Jordan Forest Products at Barnesville, Ga. is adding a new carriage line and also installing a USNR four-saw edger with reman head and Flying V outfeed. l Lampe & Malphus in Smithfield, NC has ordered two Forano 66 in. disc chippers fitted with J-style infeed spouts. l Spanish Trail Lumber at Cypress, Fla. is putting new top, bottom and side cutter heads on its Coastal planer. The company is also adding a USNR Revolver Lug Loader at its Marianna, Fla. sawmill. l Griffin Lumber at Cordele, Ga. has seen impressive results after installing a USNR Precision Geometric Log Rotation system on its innovative rising sharp chain. “We’ve seen enormous uplift in productivity and yield,” says owner Jesse Griffin. l Battle Lumber at Wadley, Ga. is installing a new trimmer optimization system at a new tie mill operation. Hardware includes a new scan frame fitted with BioLuma 2900L HD laser profile sensors and USNR’s MillExpert optimization.
l Bennett Lumber in Princeton, Id. is upgrading a gang optimizer with MillExpert using BioLuma 2900LX HD laser profile scanning. Project includes PLC upgrade to ControlLogix platform. l Hood Industries is installing a new USNR Counter-Flow Dry Kiln with Kiln Boss control system. Hood is also putting in a new roof, walls and gabled end panels on an existing double-track, steel frame dry kiln. l At Brookhaven, Miss., Rex Lumber is upgrading a transverse edger optimization system with new USNR BioLuma 2900L laser profile sensors and MillExpert optimization system.
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ATLARGE KFIA Will Meet In Louisville Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. (KFIA) will hold its 51st Annual Meeting April 5 -7 at The Brown Hotel in downtown Louisville. The association plans to host more than 400 company representatives from throughout the region. The meeting will get under way with
the John Smith Invitational golf outing at the Oxmoor Country Club Golf Course in Louisville. The exhibit area will be open throughout the meeting and the Tree Farm Awards Luncheon will recognize outstanding individuals for their achievements in the forest industry community. Topics for discussion will include updates on the Forest Health Center and
logging Best Management Practices changes, American Chestnut Restoration as well as discussions on the current White Oak Market and the Tall Timber Buildings for the future. For information on exhibiting or attending, call 502-695-3979; e-mail: michele@kfia.org or visit kfia.org.
Enviva Launches Conservation Fund Enviva Holdings, the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, has established the Enviva Forest Conservation Fund, a $5 million, 10-year program designed to protect tens of thousands of acres of bottomland forests in northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia. The Enviva Forest Conservation Fund, administered by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, will award matching-fund grants to nonprofit organizations to permanently protect ecologically sensitive areas and conserve working forests. The $5 million fund will focus on the Virginia-North Carolina coastal plain, an area that is home to three wood pellet production facilities and a deep-water marine terminal owned by Enviva. The Enviva Fund will focus on about 35 North Carolina and Virginia counties that include about 6 million acres of forests of all types. Of this total, about 20% are bottomland forests. Each year, the Endowment will solicit grant applications, asking qualified organizations to identify specific bottomland tracts that are eligible for protection. Grants will be awarded annually, starting in 2016. Enviva will consider a variety of protection strategies, in-
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SFPA Expo Planned For June 2017 Southern Forest Products Assn. (SFPA) has announced that its 34th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition – EXPO 2017 – will be held June 14-16, 2017 at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. The show’s theme: Blueprint for Success. Sponsored and conducted by SFPA every two years since 1950, this event has traditionally included many of the biggest names in the business displaying everything from sawmill machinery to materials handling equipment, attracting key representatives from the nation’s largest wood products manufacturers. Expo 2015 featured 188 exhibitors, with a total attendance of more than 2,200. Visit sfpaexpo.com.
Ostling Was Loader Pioneer For Prentice Prentice loader pioneer Bill Ostling, 82, was memorialized September 28 in Prentice, Wis., his birthplace and that of the Prentice loader, early models of which he literally helped build and later models promote. Ostling died on September 24 while under hospice care. Ostling’s loader career touched five decades, beginning in 1958 on the assembly line of Leo Heikkinen’s cable loader plant in Prentice. He began demonstrating the machines in the area and was later promoted to a sales position, traveling extensively in helping Heikkinen promote what had evolved into the industry’s first hydraulic knuckleboom loader. Known for his smile and easygoing manner, the highly respected Ostling helped stabilize Prentice loader manufacturing through four ownership changes, one of which took him for a time to new corporate headquarters in North Carolina. He had served as general manager of Blount’s Omark Materials Handling Div. in Prentice for 16 years upon his retirement in 1990. Ostling also played a guiding role in the growth of the Prentice community, serving on the city’s industrial development corporation. 50
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Summary Job Description: Under the supervision of the Senior VP Sales, the Sales Representative has to research, initiate and finalize sales of sawmill and lumber handling equipment, based on specific customers’ needs. Responsibilities: n Visit and meet sawmill and planermill operators in US Southeast on a regular basis in order to gather information and help them with their challenges and needs n Up to 50% travel required n Represent the company at trade shows and conferences as part of a team n Monitor and provide customer support of our company’s equipment, ensuring it is performing up to the customer’s expectations Qualifications, Skills and Work Conditions: Consideration for this position requires that you possess a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in a sawmill environment, in a management role in operations or in projects. Ideally, a technical background would be suitable for this position and any experience in sales would certainly be a great asset. However, other combinations of training and experience deemed relevant and which satisfy the requirements and core competencies will be considered. The Sales Representative Southeast must possess the following: Comprehensive knowledge of sawmill and planermill industry Management skills n Valid driver’s license Negotiation and problem-solving skills n Written and spoken communication skills Ability to use required software (Word, Excel, e-mail, CRM and Internet)
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SEPTEMBER
2-5—Fimma-Maderalia 2016, Feria Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Visit fimma-maderalia.feriavalencia.com/en.
28-30—Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Expo Center, Portland, Ore. Call 334-834-1170; visit timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com.
25-29—IndiaWood 2016 International Trade Fair, Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore, India. Call +9180-4250 5000; visit indiawood.com.
MARCH
APRIL 5-6—Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit bioenergyshow.com. 5-7—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. 51st annual meeting, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org. 7-8—Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 334-834-1170; visit pelice-expo.com.
MAY 6-7—Northeastern Forest Products Equipment Expo, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, Vt. Call 315-3693078; visit northernlogger.com/content/loggers-expo. 13-14—Expo Richmond 2016, Richmond Raceway Complex, Richmond, Va. Call 804-737-5625; visit exporichmond.com. 24-28—Xylexpo 2016, Fiera Milano Rho Fairgrounds, Milan, Italy. Phone +39-02-89210200; Visit xylexpo.com/index.php/en.
JUNE 1-4—WMF 2016—The 16th International Exhibition on Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Manufacturing Equipment, China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China. Call (852) 2516 3518; visit chinaexhibition.com.
JULY 23-26—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Summer Conference, The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Call 336885-8315; visit appalachianwood.org.
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