Lumber Handling Articles
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Lumber Mill - Major Hardwood Provider from Allegany, NY - Case Study
This lumber company specializes in the production of green and kiln dried hardwood lumber. They employ a team of professional foresters and certified timber harvesters that can help harvest both private and public timber lots. Their proven sawmill practices and drying techniques produce some of the finest high quality grade hardwood lumber in the industry. In an on going effort to maintain their ...
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Project - The Lowest Cost Price per Ton - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Beelen is a fast growing company in C&D recycling in the Netherlands and Wim Beelen, the owner at that time, wanted to become the biggest. To become the biggest, you have to find a way to be outstanding in comparison with your competition. Smart Investments Beelen invested in a line with automatic stone-, wood- and light fraction-sorting. This brings a high throughput capacity with a clean ...
By Waltec BV
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Pulp & paper case study - British Columbia Sawmill
Smart Elbow® Excels for Pulp & Paper There were several reasons that a British Columbia, Canada, sawmill chose the Smart Elbow for installation in a new pneumatic conveying system. Due to the potentially abrasive nature of wood chips and dust when conveyed pneumatically, plant engineering designed the new system to perform without necessitating the repair and replacement chores that ...
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Case study: OSB product improvement
Challenge Customer required a process to separate the low grade lumber “fines” and smaller pieces of wood chips from the more desirable large OSB (Oriented Strand Board) strands to increase the quality and strength of their finished product. Approach GK was contacted to create a new process solution when traditional screening solutions did not allow the customer to meet their ...
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Leaching of Nitrogen and Phenolics from wood waste and co-composts used for road rehabilitation
Rehabilitation and reforestation of disused forest roads and landings can be facilitated by the incorporation of organic matter. The British Columbia forest industry creates residual woody materials, but they are nutrient poor and may leach phenolic compounds. We assessed the potential for wood wastes (chipped cedar wood waste, sort-yard waste, hogfuel) and co-composts with shellfish waste or ...
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Environmental Profile of the Lumber and Wood Products Industry
Introduction The EPA's Office of Compliance has developed a series of profiles or notebooks containing information on selected major industries. These notebooks, which focus on key indicators that holistically present air, water, and land pollutant release data, have been thoroughly reviewed by experts from both inside and outside the EPA. What will you find in this Notebook? The Notebook ...
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