Kerwood Joins Hansen-Rice

by | Oct 30, 2020 | Supply Lines

 Kerwood Joins Hansen-Rice

Hansen-Rice, Inc. (HRI) announced that Terry Kerwood and Matt Peerboom have joined their heavy industrial team as a business manager and director, respectively. Kerwood’s role is owner/ client advocate and liaison. As director, Peerboom oversees the project from start to finish.

Kerwood was managing director of the Engineered Wood Technology Assn. (an affiliate of the American Plywood Assn.) for 21 years.

 

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Boise Cascade Operation At Elgin Is Up In Air

by | Oct 30, 2020 | News

Boise Cascade Operation At Elgin Is Up In Air 

Boise Cascade has issued a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice to its employees at its operations in Elgin, Ore. “We issued the notice in order to ensure that all employees are aware it is possible the mill will have to reduce production levels beginning on or about January 1, 2021,” the company states.

While the demand and pricing for plywood has been favorable during 2020 and the Elgin operation was profitable during the second and third quarters, Boise states that its ongoing ability to use Elgin’s waste and storm water has been modified by the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality (ODEQ). The new permit constraints create uncertainty around the future operations at the site, according to Boise, which has significantly reduced its purchases of logs for the Elgin operation considering the uncertainty created by the change in environmental constraints and possible curtailment. “At the current time, we do not expect to have enough logs available to operate throughout the entire winter even if the open concerns with ODEQ are favorably resolved before the end of the year,” the company states.

The Elgin facility currently produces approximately 10% of Boise’s dry veneer production, the majority of which is sold as plywood and represents approximately 16% of Boise’s plywood sales.

The company says it will continue to evaluate plywood market conditions, log supply availability, operating costs, environmental permits and other factors influencing the long-term viability of the Elgin plywood operation as the situation warrants.

 

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Raute Appoints New President/CEO

Raute Corp.’s Board of Directors has appointed Mika Saariaho as the new President and CEO beginning in late November. He will join Raute from Metso Outotec Corp. where he holds the position of Senior Vice President. Saariaho succeeds Tapani Kiiski who left…

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Westmill Industries Moves Headquarters

by | Oct 28, 2020 | News

Westmill Industries Moves Headquarters 

Westmill Industries has moved headquarters to a new, larger facility located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Can.

With more than five times more office, warehouse and shop space, and more than 10 times more yard and covered outside storage space than its previous facility, Westmill now has the much needed, and long overdue, capacity to continue its strong growth.

“We are extremely fortunate to have found such a perfect new location to call home,” comments Mike Crondahl, President and Owner of Westmill. “A freestanding building beside the airport, large offices, warehouse and a wonderful private gated property—we couldn’t have asked for a more perfect location to call home.”

Along with its new headquarters in Abbotsford, Westmill has warehouses in Eugene, Ore. and Atlanta, Ga.

 

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CalPlant Gears Up For First Board

CalPlant Gears Up For First Board

by | Oct 28, 2020 | News

CalPlant I Gears Up For First Board

CalPlant I, the new rice straw-based MDF plant in Willows, Calif.,is starting up and commissioning all areas of the mill. This includes the straw preparation building, where 20 loaded straw trailers have been staged; the refiner and dryer area, where dust collection and pneumatic transfer is undergoing final calibration; the first truckload of pMDI glue has arrived; forming and pressing is beginning pneumatic transfer of fiber and commissioning of the press sizing systems; commissioning of the intermediate stacking, sanding and sawing system; and likewise for the spark detection and quenching system. First board production is anticipated during the first week of November.

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November 2020

November 2020

by | Oct 27, 2020 | Magazine

November 2020

Cover: Winston Plywood Embraces Improvement

LOUISVILLE, Mississippi – Efficiency and production are both on the increase here at the South’s newest plywood plant that started up in 2016 as the facility grows into its potential.

Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Panel World

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Taking Stock: Sometimes The Paths Come Full Circle

We know that people’s paths may cross; the same can be said of articles in Panel World. You’ve probably noticed that the cover article for this issue is on the Winston Plywood & Veneer operation in Louisville, Mississippi. It is somewhat of a sequel article, in that Panel World first visited the plant shortly after it started up; having heard it had gotten the kinks out, so to speak, Panel World recently visited it again, and it appeared to be hitting on all cylinders as plywood prices continued to skyrocket. Nice timing. It has taken a lot of focus and innovation on the part of the operators to bring it up to where it needs to be.

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Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World

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Panel Equipment Suppliers Rise To The Occasion

For everybody, the majority of 2020 has not been exactly as predicted, but despite travel restrictions, the global pandemic hasn’t slowed the panel industry; instead it’s pushed everyone to be that much greater.

Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Associate Editor, Panel World

Dryer Island

The following companies submitted editorial profiles and images to complement their advertisements elsewhere in the November 2020 issue:

  • Büttner
  • Diffenbacher
  • MoistTech
  • Raute
  • Scheuch
  • Stela Laxhuber
  • Westmill Industries
  • Dürr Megtec
  • USNR
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  • Kerwood Joins Hansen-Rice
  • Woodworking Fair Has Solid Debut
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  • Horstkotte Left Imprint On Mills
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Winston Plywood Embraces Improvement

Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Panel World

LOUISVILLE, Mississippi – Efficiency and production are both on the increase here at the South’s newest plywood plant that started up in 2016 as the facility grows into its potential. The irony, says Winston Plywood & Veneer (WPV) President and CEO Bruce Warren, is that the plant had been having some of its best months since startup going into March 2020 – then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and threw operations and markets across the forest products industry into disarray.

“When COVID hit we had just started to see some record weeks, the best we’ve had since starting up,” Warren says, noting that March was the plant’s best month yet – until now.

In late July, Warren said the plant was back to about 80% of its pre-COVID output. Now, after a major market turnaround and record prices that have boosted all segments of the industry, WPV is making progress in all areas of the mill.

New six-deck USNR veneer dryer is the workhorse dryer of the operation.

Mill’s two-lathe design handles logs up to 24 in., with a sweet spot half that size.

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