Export markets targeted by component supplier: manufacturing white oak edge-glued panels, moulder blanks and squares, plant features careful drying and predrying ahead of optimized rough mill

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Summit Dimension Products LLC manufactures moulder blanks and white oak edge-glued panels for domestic and European cabinet and furniture companies. The Summit rough mill uses a predryer and computer-controlled dry kilns to process 5 mil bd ft of white oak annually. Automated SII Dry Kilns allow the 90x50-ft predryer to control the lumber drying process. The mill's inspection stations mark lumber defects before panel sizing operations take place. The mill uses electronic color-matching systems to produce high-quality edge-glued panels for European markets.

Production management, Summit Dimension Products LLC

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Capacity, recovery grow with sawmill remodeling

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Beadles Lumber Co. has completed the renovation of its pine sawmill in Moultrie, GA and expects to increase its production from approximately 30 million board feet per year to more than 40 million. Renovation included the addition of high tech machine centers and innovative new machinery that will enable the mill to process small logs more efficiently and provide greater use of lumber. The renovation began in Fall, 1993 and was completed in early 1995.

Remodeling and renovation, Beadles Lumber Company Inc.

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Hemlock mill in front of curve-sawing 'curve.' (Tillamook Lumber Co.'s sawmill in Tillamook, Oregon)(includes related article on transverse and linear curve sawing systems)

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Tillamook Lumber Co. was one of the first lumber producers to employ curve sawing technology. The first curve-sawing gang edger, manufactured by Newnes Machine Ltd., was installed by Tillamook at their hemlock dimension mill in 1995. Although Newnes has gone into another direction with their curve saw systems, Tillamook still reaps the benefits of the original technology.

Woodworking machinery, Sawmill and Woodworking Machinery Manufacturing, Sawmill Equipment, Product information, Technology application, Agricultural supplies industry, Agricultural equipment and supplies industry, Agricultural equipment industry, Tillamook Lumber Co., Newnes Machine Ltd.

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