National Hardwood Magazine - April 2017

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IHLA Continued from page 24 U.S. Census Bureau, which reported 2016 is the seventh consecutive year of total housing single-family housing start increases. Market data for 2016 included in the presentation showed that total shipments of - this presentation reported that exports accounted for 19.7 percent of the volume of all Eastern U.S. Hardwood consumption in age. Eastern U.S. Hardwood sawmill production overall was down 0.2 percent in 2016 to Other presentations at this meeting included: Dana Lee Cole, executive director of the Hardwood Federation who offered legislative insight; Crystal Oldham, executive director of the Hardwood Forest Foundation, who addressed Tim Girardi, Northland Corp., LaGrange, KY; Andrew Bourget and Thomas Wehle, Aces, Division of Kuehne + Nagel, Rockland, MA; and Paul Vance, Northland Corp. the Omaha Children’s Museum Project; Dr. Martin George, founder and CEO of LTC Language Solutions, who spoke ecutive director of the American Hardwood Export Council, “Our stick layers love how much lighter and easier the Dri-Stixx are to handle. I love the Dri-Stixx because it has increased our production on our stacker, the consistency of the Dri-Stixx has made our pack sizes more uniform and our reducing our stick replacement expense makes it ” “The investment we have made in Dri-Stixx is due to no clean up on broken sticks, no turning of sticks in a pack of increased production because of everything running smoothly.” “Since switching to Dri-Stixx, we have had virtually of the sticks, no sticker stain/ sticker shadow, sticks do not need to be stored in the warehouse since they that the lumber coming off sticks ess hang ups. We will be sending in the next order form and down payment today for another truckload.” “Our throw-awaypercentage with the wood sticks was over 20% a year, …EVERY year... After our 1st year using Dri-Stixx we threw out just 3 sticks!” For more information call 901.801.5380 or visit us at www. .com 50 APRIL 2017 NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE

Glen Thompson and Tommy Stiles, A.W. Stiles Contractors Inc., McMinnville, TN Matt Taylor, U-C Coatings LLC, Buffalo, NY; Damon Graf, DR Graf Lumber Co., Lexington, KY; and Tom Johel, U-C Coatings LLC whose topic was Growing the Global Pie. At this year’s IHLA Convention, multiple networking opportunities were offered, and the association’s board of directors held a business session. The 2017 board president for IHLA is Shaun Cook, of C.C. Cook & Son Lumber Co., of Reelsville, IN. Tom Oilar of Cole Hardwood, located in Logansport, IN, is the 2017 1st vice president and Brett Franklin, of Tri-State Timber LLC of Bloomington, IN is the IHLA 2nd vice president. Additionally, in conjunction with the IHLA meeting, the Fellowship of Christian Lumbermen held a brief meeting. IHLA is a non-profit trade organization comprised of sawmills, wholesale brokers, equipment vendors, secondary manufacturers, loggers and landowners, among others in the industry. Learn more at www.ihla.org. n Additional photos on next page NORTHERN & APPALACHIAN HARDWOOD [ WWW.SIMONLUSSIER.COM ] NORTHERN & APPALACHIAN HARDWOODS [ WWW.SIMONLUSSIER.COM ] NORTHERN & APPALACHIAN HARDWOOD [ WWW.SIMONLUSSIER.COM] MATHIEU LUSSIER - Export Sales Manager m2lussier@simonlussier.com 450.435.6591 - 16 BOUL. DE LA SEIGNEURIE EST, BLAINVILLE, QC CANADA J7C 3V5 APRIL 2017 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 51