September 2022
Cover: States Industries Presses Ahead For Its Customers
EUGENE, Oregon – Investments and upgrades at States Industries’ manufacturing operations have made the company more competitive and increased customer focus on value creation by responding to market needs. The company promotes its close customer relationships and working with customers to custom build panels and panel components that perfectly fit customer needs.
Inside This Issue
TAKING STOCK: The Show(s) Must Go On!
If you think the pandemic caused the death of live trade shows, think again. Just take one quick browse through this issue. In fact, trade shows almost snowballed us over this month. One of the advertisement selling points of any issue is when that issue will be distributed at an upcoming show. Well, how about three shows, and it could have been more.
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World
UPDATE
- Pacific Woodtech Acquires LP EWP
- Recycled Wood Will Feed Kronospan Mill
- Weyerhaeuser Led During Key Years
- Western Forest Products Eyes Mass Timber Biz
- Collins Names Insko President & CEO
- Paper Excellence Buys Resolute
- Roseburg Continues Project Evaluation
- Atlas Announces Continuation Fund
- Tafisa Plans New TFL Line
PELICE 2022 Brought Everything From Taguchi To Board Quality Control
PART THREE: This is the third of a four-part series summarizing the presentations delivered during the Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) held this spring and hosted by Panel World magazine in Atlanta March 31 to April 1. The first two parts appeared in the May and July issues of Panel World, and the fourth and final selection will be in the upcoming November issue.
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World
Second Look
EDITOR’S NOTE: The March issue of Panel World featured an article and photos on Roseburg’s new engineered wood plant in Chester, SC, operating as Chester Engineered Wood. The story, written and photographed by Senior Editor Jessica Johnson, received such wide interest that we feel compelled to revisit the plant by publishing additional photos in the September issue.
IWF Atlanta
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following IWF (International Woodworking Fair) exhibitor companies submitted editorial profiles to complement their advertisements in Panel World September 2022.
- Argos Solutions
- Baumer Inspection
- Biele Group
- Diffenbacher
- Hymmen
- IMAL-PAL Group
- Siempelkamp
- USNR
- Woodmac
TP&EE Hosts Mass Timber Developments
The biennial Timber Processing & Energy Expo, following a pandemic-induced cancellation in 2020, returns this September 28-30 to the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Oregon. Hatton-Brown Expositions, an affiliate of Panel World magazine, has hosted the event since 2010.
TP&EE
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following companies, which are exhibiting in the Timber Processing & Energy Expo to be held in Portland, Oregon September 28-30, submitted editorial profiles to complement their advertisements in Panel World September 2022.
- Altec
- Arxada
- Evergreen Engineering
- Metal Detectors Inc.
- Samuel Coding & Labeling
- Samuel Packaging Systems
- Signode
- Taihei Machinery
- USNR
- Westmill
PROJECTS
- Berneck Orders Giant Dryer
- Kastamonu Goes With Siempelkamp Again
- HMTX Purchases Jupiter Line
- PESSA Is All In At Xylexpo
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States Industries Presses Ahead For Its Customers
Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Panel World
EUGENE, Oregon – Investments and upgrades at States Industries’ manufacturing operations have made the company more competitive and increased customer focus on value creation by responding to market needs. The company promotes its close customer relationships and working with customers to custom build panels and panel components that perfectly fit customer needs.
At Eugene, the company’s manufacturing facilities produce a wide variety of panels including hardwood plywood, wall paneling, commercial panels and also pre-cut and machined components available from the value-added facility adjacent the panel mill.
New Con-Vey robotics line boosts quality, safety.
A new four-opening short cycle Biele Group press started up in early 2021 has the plant streamlining its 3-ply production, allowing it to focus closely on customers with high-end demands while increasing overall quality and reducing downfall.
The customer-focused hardwood producer has also invested in robotics as part of a key quality control process that allows employs to work safer and concentrate on quality and not on handling panels.
Ted Downs, VP of Manufacturing, notes that States Industries approaches the market differently than many producers: Instead of relying on log conversion for a significant part of its operating margin, States Industries relies on close customer relationships that involve engineering the best products to meet customer needs in their own operations and markets. “We all care about the customer, yet we come at it in different ways,” he says. “But the anchor point of what makes us go is truly customer first.”
New press enables focus on three-ply products and two-step production, greatly reducing fall-down and increasing overall quality.
Vertical putty line at press outfeed is another innovation.
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