National Hardwood Magazine - September 2019

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When it comes to Hardwood or Southern Yellow Pine Lumber, Eastern Lumber Corporation gives you competitive prices, and we stand tall on service. For you at Eastern Lumber we offer: • A Southern Yellow Pine concentration yard in Orangeburg, S.C. • Green and air dried Appalachian, Northern and Southern Hardwoods; and green, air dried and kiln dried Southern Pine. • Export packaging & container loading. • Experienced personnel. Eastern Lumber Corporation Headquarters: 338 St. Paul St. N.E. Orangeburg, S.C. 29116 Tel: (803) 531-1887 FAX: (803) 533-0195 TRADE TALK Continued BREWER, ME– Nyle Systems LLC, headquartered here, has welcomed Henco Viljoen in the position of sales engineer/drying specialist. According to a statement from the company, he was born into a long line of sawmillers in South Africa. In the early 2000s, Viljoen began doing all the IT work and system development for Timber Soft’s (South Africa) kiln drying controls. He also consulted on dry kilns, specializing in optimizing and streamlining the drying process, while also running a small drying and research plant, drying Hardwoods. He was hired by Nyle earlier this year. Viljoen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Wood Technology from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, an Advanced Diploma in Industrial Automation from the Engineering Institute of Technology - Australia and is qualified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Viljoen and his wife, Daleen, have two children: a daughter, Ané, and a son, Henco Jr. In his free time, Viljoen enjoys hunting and fishing. “I speak for all of Nyle when I say, we are happy to have Sales: Russell and Leonard Blanchard and Jim Shepherd You’ll like doing business with us because we follow through on your orders and we do what we say we’ll do! EASTERN LUMBER 2017.indd 1 6/20/17 2:24 PM Henco Viljoen and Jeremy Howard, Nyle Systems LLC, Brewer, ME Henco on board!” said the recently promoted President of Sales and Marketing for Nyle Dry Kilns Jeremy Howard. With over 40 years’ experience in the lumber industry, Nyle has made its mark as a leading manufacturer of dry kiln solutions, selling more than 6,500 kilns worldwide to date. Nyle manufactures gas-fired, indirect gas-fired and combination gas-fired kilns and dehumidification systems from 300 board feet to 300,000 board feet. Nyle is dedicated to providing their customers with quality products that not only meet their needs, but reduce the cost of drying, according to a company statement. For more information about the company, go to www.nyle.com. HICKORY, NC– GRASCHE USA, located here, has announced a new Carbide Grade KCR18+, tough enough to handle knots, but it lasts up to two times longer, according to the company. 70 SEPTEMBER 2019 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE

A statement from Grasche noted that choosing the right grade of Carbide Insert Knife for machining Hardwoods used to be a compromise between toughness and runtime. Furthermore, Grasche stated, if you wanted more tool run-time you had to choose a harder carbide grade and risk chipping or breaking the knife; if you wanted less knife breakage you had to choose a softer carbide grade and reduce the tool life significantly. Now thanks to a new carbide grade technology from Ceratizit in Luxembourg and distributed by GRASCHE USA, the compromise between tool life and impact resistance is alleviated. This new carbide grade – called KCR18+ – uses a 10 percent corrosion resistant submicron chrome binder that offers the toughness of a soft carbide and the runtime of a hard carbide without slipping or breaking. Most carbide knife wear when cutting wood is due to chemical corrosion from acids and moisture not mechanical wear, according to Grasche. By using a corrosion resistant chrome binder vs the old cobalt binder and making the carbide powder less than a micron thick (sub-micron) it improves tool life significantly in knotty or tough Hardwood applications. For more information or to find a tooling partner near you please contact GRASCHE USA 800-472-7243 or sales@grasche.com. n AHMI Continued from page 43 MANUFACTURER OF QUALITY BAND SAWN NORTHERN APPALACHIAN HARDWOODS RED OAK WHITE OAK CHERRY SOFT MAPLE POPLAR WHITE ASH HARD MAPLE WALNUT 500,000 B.F. Dry Kiln Capacity 2 Million B.F. Dry Storage Container Loading 2240 Shermans Valley Road, Elliottsburg, PA 17024 Phone: 717-582-4122 Fax: 717-582-7438 Jason Twigg: (Cell) 717-514-2224 Toll Free: 1-800-253-0263 E-mail: sales@tuscarorahardwoods.com Website: tuscarorahardwoods.com Mixed TL’s S2S, Ripped to Width, Cut-Length & Finger-Joint Lumber Measured & Inspected after Kiln Drying JOSEY ( Page 1 fering a wide variety of investments. Log Grading Guidelines AHMI and the Appalachian Hardwood Center at WVU presented the final draft of “Guidelines for Scaling and Grading Hardwood Logs.” AHC's Curt Hassler detailed the guidelines during a breakout session. The program will offer workshops in the fall. Export Trade update West Virginia Governor Jim Justice, who owns The Greenbrier Resort, spoke during one reception and said he is working with President Trump to get export trade issues with China resolved. Justice said he understands the impact on Appalachian Hardwood producers and has lobbied for resolution. Anniversaries AHMI recognized three companies who mark their 50- year membership anniversaries in 2019. They are: W.M. Cramer Lumber Co., Hickory, NC; Shenandoah Forests, Staunton, VA; and Tillinghast & Neely Inc., Danville, VA. Sporting Events Winners •Winners of the Summer Golf Tournament were: Low gross: 1st-Brian O'Dea; 2nd-Lowery Anderson; Low Net: 1st-David Anderson; 2nd-John Lyle; Closest to the pin: Lowery Anderson; Long Drive: Davis Inman. •Winners of Summer Sporting Clays tournament: 1st- Lance Johnson; 2nd-Tony Honeycutt; 3rd-Stephen Hamer. Learn more about this organization at: www.appalachianhardwood.org. n JoCo Lumber, Inc. is a division of Josey Lumber Company, Inc. Tripp, Logan, and Joey Josey Our company offers: • 10,000,000 BF of annual production from our 6’ band headrig and 6’ band resaw. • Red and White Oak, Soft Maple, Ash, Poplar and Cypress in 4/4 through 8/4 thickness. • rough, surfaced, air-dried and kiln-dried lumber in random widths and lengths. • export prepping, container loading of logs and lumber, anti-stain dipping and end coating lumber. • 500,000 BF of dry kiln capacity. • 65,000 SF of enclosed warehouse for storage and loading of kiln-dried lumber. For Quality Appalachian Lumber Contact: JOsey Lumber COmpany, InC. JoCo Lumber, InC. 476 Lees meadow rd. • p.O. Drawer 447 scotland neck, nC 27874 TeL: (252) 826-5614 • FaX: (252) 826-3461 COnTaCT: emaIL: joseylbr3@gmail.com saLes: Logan Josey SEPTEMBER 2019 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 71