July 2017 - EWTA

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EWTA NEWS

Deadline for Info Fair Registration Approaching

The last day for early bird registration for EWTA’s 24th Info Fair is August 22. This year’s supplier exhibition will be held Oct. 28-30 at the Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa in Huntington Beach, California, during APA’s Annual Meeting. (Annual Meeting registration is also now open—contact Kim Sivertsen for information.) Info Fair provides suppliers face-to-face connection with industry decision makers at leading engineered wood products companies. Sponsorship opportunities with special recognition are available. For more information about Info Fair, visit the website. Register for Info Fair here or email Melinda Lilley. The following members have already signed up to exhibit (Platinum, Gold and Silver sponsors noted):

Info Fair Exhibitors/Sponsors (as of July 10) AkzoNobel Wood Adhesives—Silver A-Lert Construction Services ALTEC Integrated Solutions Ltd.—PLATINUM ANDRITZ, Inc. Arclin—Performance Applied—Silver, Golf Argos Solutions AS—GOLD Ashland Specialty Ingredients—GOLD Babcock & Wilcox MEGTEC—Silver BASF - We create chemistry—Coot Shoot, Golf Baumer Inspection GmbH—Silver Biele, S.A. BRUKS Rockwood—PLATINUM Brunette Machinery Company Inc.—GOLD Chem-Trend LP—PLATINUM CMA engineering Inc.—PLATINUM Combilift USA Connexus Industries Inc. Con-Vey Keystone, Inc.—GOLD COSTA Sanders LLC—PLATINUM Dieffenbacher Customer Support, LLC DO2 Industriel Dürr Systems, Inc. Electronic Wood Systems, NA—Silver Evergreen Engineering, Inc. Flamex, Inc.—GOLD, Tennis Franklin Adhesives & Polymers—GOLD Georgia-Pacific Chemicals, LLC—Silver, Coot Shoot Globe Machine Manufacturing Company Grenzebach Corporation—GOLD, Golf Guardian Chemicals Inc. H.B. Fuller—Silver Henkel—GOLD Hexion, Inc.—GOLD, Golf IBC, International Bar Coding Systems & Consulting Inc.—Silver Idemitsu Lubricants America Corporation—GOLD IMAL—PAL Group—Silver IMEAS Inc. Intertape Polymer Group InterWrap/Owens Corning Itipack Systems—Silver KADANT Carmanah Design—Silver Koch Knight, LLC Lundberg—Silver Matthews Marking Systems—Silver Meinan Machinery Works, Inc./Merritt Machinery, LLC—PLATINUM Meeren-Johnson LLC Metriguard, Inc.—Silver Mid-South Engineering Company Mill Machinery LLC Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd. Panel World Magazine/Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc.—Silver Player Design, Inc.—Silver Raute—GOLD, Golf REA JET—Silver Samuel Packaging Systems Group—PLATINUM Samuel Packaging Systems Group/Coding & Labeling SASCO Chemical Group, Inc.—Golf Signode Packaging Systems—PLATINUM SonicAire Spar-Tek Industries—PLATINUM Spraying Systems Co.—GOLD Steinemann Technology USA, Inc.— GOLD , Golf Sweed Machinery, Inc.—PLATINUM Tebulo NA Ltd. The HT Group TSI—GOLD USNR—PLATINUM, Coot Shoot, Golf Westmill Industries USA Corp.—PLATINUM, Golf Willamette Valley Company—GOLD, Golf Wood-Based Composites Center—Silver

Engineered Wood Journal Advertising
Deadline Approaching

Reach your customers and help support the association! The Engineered Wood Journal’s autumn issue includes the EWTA Info Fair exhibitors and sponsors list and features coverage of APA’s Annual Meeting. Please contact Melinda Lilley by Tuesday, August 15 to place your ad. For more information about the Engineered Wood Journal, including the Media Kit, how to contribute an article and to view past issues, go to: www.engineeredwood.org/engineered-wood-journal

Submit a Story to the Engineered Wood Journal

The Engineered Wood Journal is always looking for good feature stories—especially those that come from our members. If your company has a non-promotional story to tell about processing trends, technical developments, regulatory developments, industry health and safety programs, etc., we’d love to hear from you. Check out this list of articles and authors in the Journal over the past 10 years here, or visit this page for links to past articles. If you think someone in your company would be a good author for a feature, email a summary of your idea to Editor Sheila Cain.

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EWTA MEMBERS NEWS

EWTA Welcomes New Member

DO2 Industriel recently joined EWTA as its newest member. Based in Colbeau-Mistassini, Quebec, the distributor offers the DO2 Rapid Wrapper Automatic Panel packaging system to the engineered wood products industry. The wrapping machine's electrical, mechanical and pneumatic components, its design, the programming structure and tactile interface have all been designed for easy use and no-hassle operations. Sales representative Patrick Sasseville can be reached at psasseville@do2.ca.

Chem-Trend Expands Global Headquarters

A project that expanded Chem-Trend’s global headquarters in Howell, Michigan, by 50 percent is complete, the company announced in a press release. The expansion of the company’s R&D facilities started last year and includes additional laboratory, conference and office space. Included in the expansion is a new wood composites laboratory.

Con-Vey Promotes Goebel to Sales Manager

Con-Vey announced that it has promoted Jeremy Goebel to the position of sales manager. Goebel has been with the company for four years as a sales representative. He has been involved in major projects for the company in the building product area including OSB, plywood, LVL and I-joists.

Westmill Welcomes New
Sales Support Specialist

Westmill Industries recently announced that it has hired Jenny Jeffries as a sales support specialist. In this role, Jeffries will be supporting the Westmill parts sales business all across North America. She comes to Westmill from Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Corporation.

Axalta Acquires Valspar’s
Wood Coating Business

Axalta Coating Systems recently announced that it plans to acquire Valspar’s North American Industrial Wood Coatings business for $420 million. Axalta will acquire the personnel, both dedicated manufacturing sites, R&D assets and the underlying intellectual property of Valspar’s North American Industrial Wood Coatings business.

Connexus Adds New Chain to Materials Line

Connexus Industries has added chrome-hardened pins to its Connexus 81X Engineering Class line of chains. Chrome hardening greatly reduced pin wear due to the increased hardness of the surface, the company said in a press release, resulting in less elongation of the chain. The chrome-hardened pins are offered in 81X and 81XH sizes.

Altec and DEMCO Complete
Job for Hood Industries

Altec Integrated Solutions and DEMCO recently installed a new electric carriage and new backup roll for the veneer lathe at Hood Industries’ plant in Beaumont, Mississippi. In addition, the Altec team installed a new Linden log ladder, a new XY scanner, and charger and lathe controls. Hood’s existing clipper also received a new electric servo upgrade package. The installation is the first since Altec and DEMCO merged in 2016, the first complete carriage Altec has supplied since the merger, and the team’s first clipper scanner install in the South.

NESTEC Adds Service Vehicles to Fleet

NESTEC Material Handler and Service Truck

NESTEC is continuing to expand its service department with the addition of two mobile service support vehicles: an enclosed utility body service truck and a 5,500lb. lift capacity material handler. The acquisitions follow the addition of a 12,000-sq-ft warehouse and spare parts facility at the company’s Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, location.

Hexion Announces Release of New Resins

Hexion recently announced that it has released new resin technologies and services for manufacturing engineered wood and panels. The products include ultra-low emitting EcoBind resins to meet or exceed the most stringent global emission standards for plywood and panels, highly heat-resistant resins and adhesives for structural wood, as well as a variety of products to improve panel performance and manufacturing productivity. The products were highlighted at Hexion’s booth at the LIGNA 2017 show in Hanover, Germany, in May.

Dieffenbacher Signs Deal with
Vietnam-Based MDF Producer

Dieffenbacher recently announced in a press release that it has signed a contract with Vietnam-based producer Thien Lam Dat JSC for a complete MDF plant in Bac Giang, approximately 50 km east of Hanoi. The core of the plant will be Dieffenbacher’s CPS+ press system. The scope of supply includes the complete production line, from the wood yard through the strapping and packing line, as well as an energy plant. Start-up of the plant is planned for mid-2018.

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AROUND THE INDUSTRY

U.S., Canada Trade Lumber Dispute
Heightens with More Tariffs

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced late last month that preliminary anti-dumping duties as high as 7.7 percent would be levied on Canadian producers of softwood lumber, the latest move in a contentious trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada. The move follows an April decision to apply countervailing tariffs of up to 24.1 percent on shipments from Canadian lumber companies. This most recent move in the ongoing trade dispute comes after the U.S. lumber industry filed a petition last November asking for duties, alleging Canadian wood is highly subsidized and imports are harming U.S. mills and workers.

American Softwoods
Launches Updated Website

American Softwoods, a promotional partnership formed by three U.S softwood trade organizations, has launched a revamped website aimed at UK, Europe, Latin America and emerging markets, with plans to add eight languages. The website is highly visual and includes links to suppliers so users can locate sources or materials. The American Softwoods partnership includes the Southern Pine Council, the Softwood Export Council, and APA – The Engineered Wood Association.

Portland Approves 12-Story CLT Building

City officials in Portland, Oregon, recently approved construction of a 12-story cross-laminated timber building, said to be the nation’s first all-wood high-rise. The structure, called Framework, will break ground this fall in the city’s Pearl District. The decision follows extensive testing of CLT panels for strength and fire/earthquake readiness by scientists at Portland State University and Oregon State University.

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RESOURCES

EWTA /// www.engineeredwood.org
APA /// www.apawood.org
EWTA MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY /// www.engineeredwood.org
APA MANUFACTURER DIRECTORY /// www.apawood.org/manufacturer directory
APA HELP DESK /// www.apawood.org/help
ENGINEERED WOOD JOURNAL /// www.engineeredwood.org

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