SHIFTING & SORTING
The right sort of technology
The precision and technology has taken a step forward for woodyard and sawmill log transfer providers as this year’s Shifting & Sorting review discovered
elivering the hardware for infeed, outfeed and conveyor and sorting systems has become a more technical and sophisticated job for suppliers over the years. This has been made even more complicated as the importance of scanning technology as grown exponentially. It is more common than not that those company’s providing woodyard and in-mill log transport systems along with integrated sorting systems will supply the scanning systems needed too.
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This may be through design of an individual scanning technology for specific systems or, more often, it involves a partnership with a specialist scanning company. This means that sawmillers need to be comfortable with the mechanical hardware within the system, the scanning technology company being used, as well as the full system provider, which is also generally used to oversee the installation and commissioning of what is a major investment project. All this has made the log
transport and sorting for a sawmill a crucial decision. The following information should give mill
As a market leader in the industry, we know about these trends and have equipment that mills can use to take advantage – Holtec
owners a chance to prepare themselves properly when it comes time to make that important choice.
for quality could be in many cases a way to create additional value within the mill, for example, in an integrated sawmill or for external selling. German supplier Holtec provides solutions for cross-scanning of logs with
a high capacity. The production of top-quality chips demands attention in every wood-based panel operation. Through the prudent selection of sawable logs for timber (e.g, boards/cants for packaging) considerable additional profit can be made because of a higher added value in the mixed calculation – integrated sawmill concepts in the wood-based panel industry have been on the rise. Alternatively the sawable logs can be sold at the free-market. In many cases complementary products to wood-based panel
The start-up of the
Price LogPro’s Spanish trail log trimmer
Holtec feeds presorted logs into the mill
In times of increasing log shortages and rising raw material costs, using raw materials efficiently is important. Pre- sorting of logs and the sorting out
26 International Forest Industries | OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2011
Holtec technology presorts logs in the woodyard
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