Efficient - and creative - sawmillers

摘要

Gogama Forest Products seeks efficiency at every turn in its operation, and is also being very creative at handling the balsam fir going through the mill. Ask any softwood lumber mill manager about economically manufacturing lumber from balsam fir andit's quite likely he will take on the expression of someone who has just been asked to drink some Buckley's mixture cough medicine. Given its high moisture content, drying balsam fir lumber economically so that it can be mixed with spruce and pine has resulted in a variety of mill level formulas. These have included segregating out balsam fir in the forest or in the mill yard to mixing green balsam fir lumber with spruce and pine, then tweaking drying prescriptions to ensure that the balsam fir meets National Lumber Grading Association (NLGA) standards.