American Wood Dryers

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American Wood Dryers, based in Oregon, offers a full range of lumber kiln solutions, including continuous kilns, package kilns, and track kilns. The company also supplies pre-dryers, fan sheds, and cooling sheds. It also offers kiln control systems, a patented heat exchanger with reversible flow fans, an air-atomized water mist system, and heat energy systems for direct-fired kilns. American Wood Dryers also offers complete kiln refurbishing and retrofits. The Single Pass™ is a patented type of continuous dry kiln; all the wood enters at one end and is discharged at the opposite end. Single Pass™ has several advantages: improved flow with dedicated green and dry ends like batch kiln operations, reduced costs for energy and material handling labor and equipment, and improved grade recovery. www.drykilns.com

BolDesign

North Carolina-based BolDesign has been a leading provider of high-tech processing equipment in the wood industry for more than 30 years. It is a family-owned and operated business. Its mission is to help businesses large and small to streamline their operations, cut overhead costs, and increase profits. The company supplies kilns for drying hardwoods and softwoods, from lumber to pylons and utility poles. BolDesign’s X Power kiln technology includes features like externally located fan motors for increased longevity and ease of maintenance, bi-directional fans located across from each other for the most even air flow across the entire pack of wood. The X-Power design compliments BolDesign Wet-Air Venting™ technology: maximum air flow only vents at its wettest point and doesn’t waste energy. www.boldesigninc.com

Brunner-Hildebrand

Brunner-Hildebrand, with offices in Tennessee, has been serving the lumber industry for more than 70 years. In addition to conventional dry kilns, Brunner-Hildebrand has developed unique products, such as the world’s largest vacuum dryer, HIGHVAC, and the Alexander continuous dry kiln. The company also has introduced Hildebrand Weight Precision Technology – the easiest, most accurate way of measuring lumber moisture content. Brunner-Hildebrand offers batch kilns, track-loaded kilns, conventional kilns, continuous dry kilns, and vacuum kilns. It also offers steamers. The company also offers kiln control systems. The Hildebrand Weight Precision Technology (HWPT) is capable of weighing entire lumber stacks in wireless mode. It provides more accurate results and is easily integrated into the daily work routine. For Track and continuous kilns, it is also available installed in kiln carts. www.bhl-drykilns.com

iDRY

The iDRY AIR is a high-performance, plug-and-play wood-drying kiln designed for sawmills, custom woodshops, and firewood producers that want to increase profits and take control of the drying process. Built with industrial grade components and a Smart Control system, it delivers consistent, high-quality results while using a fraction of the energy of traditional kilns. The iDRY AIR installs easily, operates on single-phase power, and can be monitored remotely, making it ideal for small and mid-size operations seeking reliable, automated drying with minimal supervision. iDRY AIR has faster turnaround, higher yields, and greater value from every board or cord — helping businesses stay competitive and capture more revenue from their own lumber. www.idrywood.com

KDS Windsor

KDS Windsor, with facilities in North Carolina and Mississippi, has been in business since 1992. It specializes in the design, manufacture and installation of batch and continuous lumber drying kilns, wood waste heat plants, and material handling systems. Offering equipment for both hardwood and softwood markets. The KDS Windsor advanced DrySpec® family of electrical controls and DryTrack® in-kiln moisture measurement system provide precise, automatic, and trouble-free drying systems. The company offers a variety of kilns for every need, including continuous dry kilns, batch kilns, and hardwood kilns. KDS Windsor Performance Series kilns feature industry-leading durability. The stainless steel floating tray design provides a tight interior seal while allowing the outside to breathe and self-drain; this is the most durable kiln skin option on the market. www.kdskilns.com

Kiln-direct

Kiln-direct, located in North Carolina, offers state-of-the-art wood drying technology, strong customer support, and excellent value to customers world-wide. The company manufactures numerous kiln models with multiple heat and airflow variations. It has kilns operating in North and South Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The company’s expertise with regards to kiln software allows operators to run, maintain and adjust kiln operations, making units easy to deal with. Kiln-direct offers the Wooddryer Kiln Control System management software. The company supplies kilns with capacity ranging from 9,000-40,000 board feet. The widest version of the standard, turn-key delivered kiln has a capacity of 14,000 board feet of 4/4 lumber; it is popular for higher temperatures and faster drying of softwoods. Kiln-direct It also offers kilns for drying firewood and heat-treat pallets. www.kiln-direct.com

Nova Dry Kiln

Nova Dry Kiln is a world wide producer of high quality lumber dry kilns. They are designed to produce a brighter kiln dried product that will have customers returning for more. Nova Dry Kiln systems have the lowest operating cost using hot water and calibrated powered exhaust. Other characteristics include high thermal efficiency, long life expectancy, and simplicity to operate. www.novadrykiln.com

Nyle Dry Kilns

Nyle Dry Kilns advances the lumber industry with its new rooftop Heat Recovery Vent (HRV) option, which addresses rising energy costs and sustainability goals. Lumber drying traditionally wastes significant energy by venting hot, moist air. Nyle’s HRV option solves this by capturing and recirculating waste heat back into the kiln. This dynamic heat recovery dramatically reduces fuel consumption, with savings potentially reaching 30 percent, while stabilizing crucial drying conditions. The rooftop unit, along with an existing stand-alone model, ensures versatility for nearly any facility. The systems can be retrofitted onto existing kilns from any manufacturer, avoiding costly full replacements. This accessibility provides rapid return on investment, often under two years. Nyle HRVs are a strategic asset that enhances profitability and supports a sustainable future by cutting fuel use and emissions. www.nyledrykilns.com

SII Dry Kilns

SII Dry Kilns has served the lumber industry for more than 50 years and has over 2,000 kilns operating around the globe. The company, based in North Carolina, is known for its superior reputation in the lumber drying and sterilizing industries. It offers innovative design and manufacture of kilns for drying hardwoods and softwoods as well as pallet heat-treating systems and firewood kilns. For softwood lumber producers, the company offers batch track kilns and dual-path continuous kilns. A dual-path continuous dry kiln can increase production 150-200 percent compared to a traditional batch kiln while at the same time reducing energy consumption by 20-25 percent per board foot. The company also offers pre-dryers, fan sheds, components and equipment, and kiln control systems. www.siidrykilns.com

USNR

UniFlow kiln conversions increase drying efficiency and simplify maintenance. UniFlow kilns are an industry success proven on SYP, Douglas fir, and memlock. It is cost-effective to convert batch kilns and even counterflow kilns to the UniFlow design, providing more efficient operation and energy conservation in the drying process. A recent project converted four common-wall kilns at Rosboro Lumber in Springfield, Oregon, to UniFlow – increasing production by 35 percent while dramatically reducing boiler consumption. Another project converted a continuous kiln to UniFlow with equally powerful results. USNR has improved the original UniFlow design, increasing efficiency and simplifying maintenance. Adjustments have increased the service life of motors, increased air flow to the blowers, and reduced the number of different parts required to operate. Contact a USNR sales representative to learn about UniFlow kiln upgrades. www.usnr.com

Valutec

Valutec is a world leader in continuous kilns and has delivered more than 1,500 of them to sawmills around the world. The company has combined Nordic expertise in lumber drying with insights into challenges facing customers for almost 100 years. Valutec is the only company offering TC kilns, which come with distinguishing features such as low energy consumption, high flexibility, and superior capacity. It gives the operator the possibility to create the ultimate drying process with freedom to mix dimensions, minimal moisture content variation, and reduced risk of checking. Annual capacity can reach 150 MMBF with target moisture contents down to around 12-18 percent with a standard deviation of 1 percent. www.valutec.se/en

Wellons

For more than 50 years, Wellons has provided steam generating plants and lumber dry kilns to the forest products industry and currently has more than 1,300 steam-heated lumber dry kilns in operation, producing high quality lumber. The company, located in Washington, offers track-loading kilns, high temperature kilns, continuous dry kilns, and package kilns. Wellons has developed the most significant advance in lumber drying of the last 50 years – Computerized Multizone Control. The Wellons multizoned computer controlled kiln uses the temperature-drop-across-the-load (tdal) principle to monitor and control drying. Optimum drying rates are achieved with multiple electronic sensors that send data to the computer for automatic evaluation and reaction. The technology has demonstrated improvements in moisture content uniformity, resulting in better grade recovery, faster schedules, reduced energy consumption, and increased drying efficiency. www.wellons.com

Wood-Mizer

Wood-Mizer, headquartered in Indiana, manufactures portable sawmills and woodworking equipment for hobbyists and industrial mills. Wood-Mizer offers several small dehumidification systems – without chambers – for drying wood as well as a system that is offered with an insulated shipping container for a kiln. The PRO container kiln package combines its high-quality drying system with a 20 foot insulated shipping container and everything needed to make a top-quality drying kiln. This container package includes the KD250PRO dehumidification kiln unit, pro controls, circulating fans, and powered vent kits. It accommodates a wide range of load sizes, making it suitable for various drying needs, from small batches to larger quantities. Capacity is 1,500-2,000 board feet for softwood or fast-drying hardwood or 2,300 board feet for slow-drying hardwood. www.woodmizer.com