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March 2008:
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Pallet Enterprise: Morgan Lumber is a Showcase Mill for Automation, Optimized Machines
RED OAK, Virginia - Dream big, accomplish much. The lesson that big ideas lead to big achievements isn't lost on Ken Morgan, owner of Morgan Lumber. The lumber passes first through an MDI TWA-2000 planer series metal detector, which can detect small fragments of metal, such as broken staples. By Carolee Anita Boyles Timber Processing: Retooled and Ready Lumberman typically use bad times in the marketplace as opportunities to retool and reposition themselves to be more competitive when the next cycle of good times rolls around. Two Caterpillar 966H loaders off-load trucks and feed log infeed decks. Small logs, generally 6 to 10in. on the scale end, advance through a 30in. Cambio debarker, MDI metal detector and into a Hi-Tech optimized ASM sharp chain and ASM refurbished Kockums twin band, which was a part of the 1998-9 project. By Jennifer McCary Timber Processing: Strategic buyouts In December, Wagner Lumber Sawmill partners Les Wagner and Steve Schaeffer officially completed the acquisition of Pomeroy Lumber in Nineveh, NY, bringing the company's annual production total to 50MMBF with three locations, each of which operates as separate entities. Logs pass through an MDI metal detector before being routed to one of two production lines. By Jennifer McCary |
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Timber Processing: 2008 Man of the Year - Bill Carden of Potomac Supply Corp., Kinsale, VA
Bill Carden is a leader, he stands above many others in the industry in his quest for excellence in every aspect of his business and his life. He is a true gentleman and exhibits great respect for others, yet has the ability to extract the best from himself and each member of his team and those of us who have worked with him." Logs pass through an MDI Metal Detector and a Kockums debarker after being cut to size by Forano Slasher saws using a Valon-Kone (Brunette) centering device. By David Abbott |
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December 2007:
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Timber Processing: Winds of Change
A new era begins for Georgia's Tolleson Lumber with a new president, executive team and management structure. In a 1992 interview with Timber Processing, then president of Tolleson Lumber, Rusty Wood, described his late mentor and father-in-law, Buddy Tolleson, son of the company's founder, as a progressive man who believed constant change is essential to the survival of any company. Logs pass through a 30in. Cambio debarker, an MDI Metal Detector and a 72in. bucking saw to one of three primary breakdown lines: two carriages and a sharp chain. By David Abbott |
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November 2007:
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Timber Processing: Taking A Chance
Fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit that led to the establishment of 21 chip mills across the U.S. and Australia, as well revolutionary rubber-tired drum debarker, Price Companies founder J.P. Price isn't afraid to take adventurous steps in the timber industry. Unloading equipment on the log yard includes machines from LeTourneau, Barko and Caterpillar. Stems are debarked using a Valon Kone Brunette dual ring high speed debarker (17in. max diameter). Dual infeed decks are equipped with Linden step feeders. Pieces run through a MDI Metal Detect By Tonya Cooper |
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October 2007:
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Timber Processing: Intermountain Greenfield
Bennett Forest Industries ramps up production at its new high-speed sawmill in north central Idaho. Two MDI Metal Detectors, one just downstream of the bucking line and the other preceding the VK Brunette drum chipper fed by a Vibra-Pro vibrating conveyor system, have recently replaced the mill's original meal detectors. By Dan Shell |
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August 2007:
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Southern Lumberman: Growing step by step
Teamwork, upgrades, capital investments advance Turn Bull's edge in North Carolina. In just 14 years an enterprising young entrepreneur with limited capital and minimal sawmilling experience has brought a shuttered circle sawmill back to life, turning it an efficient and steadily growing enterprise... An MDI metal Detector with a 36in. coil was also installed at that time. Lee says they saw an immediate 1% increase in sawmill uptime. By Jennifer McCary Southern Lumberman: Family Tradition MDI Marketing Manager Julie Noll-Klarr and her husband Nathan welcomed their first child, Gabriella Jacqueline Klarr, on May 22nd at 10:45pm at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene, OR. She weighed 7lbs. 11oz and was 20in. long. Gabriella is the first granddaughter on either side of her family. Noll-Klarr's parents and MDI owners Jesse, CEO and President, and Terri Vigil, CFO and Vice-president... |
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July 2007:
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Panel World: Major new expansion adds to Martin flexibility, efficiency
A little more than a decade after entering the Southern softwood plywood business here, Roy O. Martin Lumber Company (Martco) is expanding its plywood mill with what is essentially a new plywood plant married to the older facility, with newly expanded and remodeled log yard and merchandising line that feeds both. Additional equipment includes... an MDI Metal Detector. By Dan Shell Panel World: Technical descriptions of veneer feeder, layup, and composer Longtime manufacturer and supplier Corvallis Tool Co. provides insight into the workings of its LVL veneer processing systems. |
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June 2007:
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Southern Lumberman: Expo Reloaded
Popular lumber industry trade show returns to Atlanta in 2007, then back to New Orleans in 2009. Forest products industry professionals will journey to the 29th Forest Products Machinery and Equipment Exposition June 21st-23rd at Georgia World Congress Center in Downtown Atlanta. By Teri PlayfordSouthern Lumberman: New Technology MDI is proud to present the first affordable surround planer metal detector available on the market: the HP-3000 Planer Metal Detectors. MDI's newest technology and construction techniques allow it to provide, at the request of its customers, an affordable planer system that will protect valuable planer equipment. |
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May 2007:
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Timber Processing: Surviving the Downs
The decision to specialize in long length dimension lumber was made over four decades ago, when the Williams family purchased a defunct sawmill here, then owned by the city of Leesville... Pieces exit the C-N-S to an accumulation table and go to an outside belt where they cross an MDI metal detector prior to a Coe Newnes optimizer equipped with 13 laser scanning heads. By Jennifer McCary Southern Lumberman: Johnson is Diversified Johnson Lumber Co. produces a variety of wood products, including upper grade boards and pallet stock, but it has found a niche in construction mats and also has an expansive mulch operation... Processing begins with an HMC debarker and MDI Metal Detector. By Jim Mooney |
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March 2007:
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Timber Processing: AWP OUTFRONT
Focused expansion and capital improvements position AWP as a dominant force in the hardwood lumber industry. Throughout its 34-year history, family-owned Allegheny Wood Products (AWP) has followed a path of progressive growth through expansion and acquisition... logs are fed to the sawmill infeed deck and advance through the Nicholson debarker and MDI Metal Detector. By Jennifer McCary |
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February 2007:
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Southern Lumberman: Onward and Upward
MIC sorter combines multiple grading sheds and stacker in one facility at Yoder's Buckhorn Woods. Buckhorn Woods, a division of Yoder Lumber Co., headquartered in nearby Charm, Oh., combined three separate grading sheds plus a stacker building into one 76,500 sq. ft. facility in December 2003... That facility is currently in upgrade mode, a new Morbark debarker and MDI Metal Detector was slated for startup at the beginning of the new year. By Jennifer McCary |
