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Combilift Named “Company of the Year” By KPMG Ireland
Combilift Named “Company of the Year” By KPMG Ireland Combilift, the global leader in material handling solutions, has been awarded Company of the Year at the prestigious Business & Finance...
KDS Windsor Offers CDK Virtual Tour
KDS Windsor Offers CDK Virtual TourKDS Windsor is offering a virtual tour of a recently completed installation of its continuous dry kiln designed to deliver an annual production of 150MMBF at a...
JoeScan Adds Technology & Process Improvement Manager
JoeScan Adds Technology & Process Improvement ManagerJoeScan, a sawmill scanning technology provider, has announced the appointment of Joseph Elliott to the newly created role of Technology...
GP Shakes Up Operations Leadership
GP Shakes Up Operations Leadership Georgia-Pacific has changed its operations leadership. Jeff Koeppel, senior vice president of operations, will retire in the first quarter of 2025. A role he has...
2025 WWPA Master Lumberman Nominations Open
2025 WWPA Master Lumberman Nominations OpenWestern Wood Producers Assn. (WWPA) has opened nominations for the 2025 Master Lumberman honors. The awards will be presented at the Association's Annual...
Spruce Products Ltd. Goes With Valutec TC Continuous Kiln
Spruce Products Ltd. Goes With Valutec TC Continuous KilnAt a time when low-cost mass production solutions are the norm, it’s worth remembering why custom products from specialized companies will...
New Cleereman Optimized Edger Hits The Mark
Cleereman Industries/Cleereman Controls, which introduced their edger line in the spring of 2021, reports the installation of seven edgers and has sold more than 30. Jay Glime of G&G Lumber in Florence, Wis. and Jon Ritcher of Shamco Lumber in Iron River, Mich. both replaced existing manual edgers with Cleereman optimized edgers. Both of these mills average more than 40MBF per day with Cleereman optimized carriage lines…
HALCO Honored For Operations Research
HALCO Software Systems was the recipient of the 2022 Omond Solandt Award in operations research from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS). This prestigious award, which has typically been awarded to much larger organizations like IBM and Air Canada, was in recognition of HALCO’s developments in production planning optimization methods in the forest industry…
JoeScan To Debut New Scan Heads
The sawmill scanning experts at JoeScan will soon bring the proven simplicity of their JS-50 scan head to more parts of the sawmill. “Mills love how our latest JS-50 WX model performs on their edgers and trimmers,” says JoeScan president Joey Nelson. “It’s a robust, reliable platform that is very easy to use. So we’ve been working hard to develop next-gen scanners for more machine centers…
Nova Scotia’s Elmsdale Lumber Announces Big McDonough Project
Elmsdale Lumber Co. in Nova Scotia has engaged McDonough Manufacturing for what will be a complete sawmill modernization over the summers of 2022 and 2023. This project will see upgrades to both primary and secondary sawing systems designed to increase capacity and more importantly yield…
Lucidyne Becomes Microtec Corvallis
Corvallis, Ore.-based Lucidyne Technologies, which was purchased in 2020 by Microtec, is now named Microtec Corvallis as Microtec finalizes its branding integration plans. Last year, following its acquisitions of Finscan and Woodeye, Microtec rebranded Finscan as Microtec Espoo and Woodeye as…
Westervelt Picks BID For Planer Mill
BID Group has received a new turnkey order from Westervelt Lumber to modernize the existing planer mill in Moundville, Ala. BID will manage, design, build, equip, install, and provide full start-up services for the project. The new operation will incorporate the full spectrum of BID’s best-in-class…
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