Spotlight
Working to broaden international trade, the New
Zealand government is encouraging NZ-based
forest equipment companies to expand into
other markets, and the plans include testing the
Canadian market. |
Improving kiln production
Quebec’s Group GDS has made an investment
in new technology to achieve more accurate
lumber drying and get more production from
their kilns. |
New optimizing equipment
hitting the mark
New Valley Machine Works optimizing
equipment is hitting all the production and
recovery targets at the Spruce Products sawmill
in Manitoba.
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How log scanning got
started
LSJ takes a look at how scanning and
optimization started, a colourful history that
includes car lights and operators wearing
sunglasses to shield themselves from bright
scanning lights.
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Bumping up equipment
utilization
The use of a Ponsse Buffalo Dual machine,
with its dual harvesting/forwarding capabilities,
is allowing Quebec logging contractor Regis
Gosselin to better utilize his equipment. |
High-end custom cutting
Vancouver Island’s Longhouse Trading is
finding there’s plenty of business doing custom
cutting for high-end building projects. |
Lesson in preventative
maintenance
Former schoolteacher Susan Duquette, who
took over from her father at Ontario’s Ranger
Logging almost 20 years ago, preaches
preventative maintenance to her contractors,
and it’s a lesson that has paid off. |
Make training a priority
at the mill
Investments in skills training should be a high
priority if sawmills want to remain competitive
and avoid getting hit by a skills shortage that is
already emerging.
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Flexible bridge building
A certification program offered in New
Brunswick is providing the forest industry with a
flexibility that allows it to more effectively install
bridges and culverts. |
Success in reducing
greenhouse gas emissions
Guest Columnist Avrim Lazar of the Forest
Products Association of Canada says that deep
re-engineering, rather than a shallow approach,
has been the key to the Canadian forest
industry’s success in reducing greenhouse
gas emissions. |
An optimistic future
The industry may be going
through some tough times
right now, but there are some
young loggers out there,
like BC’s Travis Englund, who
remain optimistic about the
future of logging, and their
place in that future. |
COVER
In an effort to broaden international trade, the New Zealand
government is encouraging NZ-based forest equipment
companies to expand into other markets, including Canada.
Get the details on the Kiwis coming to Canada beginning on
page 4 of this issue of Logging & Sawmilling Journal. (Cover
photo of the Claymark sawmill in Katikati, New Zealand by
Tony Kryzanowski)
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