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Attendance Strong For
Richmond Expo
Richmond, Va.–
The
largest exhibition of equipment for the forest products
industry in the Eastern U.S. in 2008 recently
boasted more than 250 exhibitors at the Richmond
Expo, held here.
This biennial trade show touted a high retention
rate of exhibitors who displayed their goods during
the 2006 Expo. The Richmond Expo is held at the
Richmond International Raceway with more than
12 acres of outdoor exhibit space and hundreds of
booths indoors. The Expo features more than
500,000 square feet of equipment exhibits.
Suppliers provide product demonstrations with
machinery functioning under actual working conditions.
Among the active displays are logging
equipment, pallet recycling equipment, automated
pallet nailing machines, sawmills and lumber
remanufacturing.
An added feature at this year’s Expo was the Total
Productive Maintenance (TPM) workshop. TPM is
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BY GARY MILLER
Teresa Taylor Ktsanes (center) is shown with many of the sales people from Taylor Machine Works,
headquartered in Louisville, Miss. Also pictured in the seat of the new TX 4300 forklift is Teresa’s son,
Matthew, age 6 -1/2 years.
Steve Dagenhart, Air Systems Manufacturing of Lenoir Inc., Lenoir, N.C.; John
Turbyfill and Terry Miller, Turning House Millworks, Landis, N.C.; and Nelson Miller,
Air Systems Manufacturing of Lenoir Inc.
Mark Delosreyes and Wilson Jones, J.W. Jones Lumber Co., Elizabeth City, N.C.; and
John Carter and Richard Harrell, Suffolk Forest Products Inc., Suffolk, Va.
Larry Hunter, Pike Lumber Co. Inc., Akron, Ind.; Robert Stallings, Brunner-
Hildebrand Lumber Dry Kiln Co., Nashville, Tenn.; and Rich Solano, Pike Lumber Co.
Inc.
Ken Matthews and Thom Brown, SII Dry Kilns, Lexington, N.C.; Bill Rosenberry, Carl
L. Rosenberry & Sons Lumber Inc., Fort Loudon, Pa.; and Dan Mathews, SII Dry Kilns
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