We
employ over 40 full-time workers as sawmill, kiln, and planer mill operators,
yard staff (sorting and packaging), as well as management and clerical staff.
It is estimated that a further 75 jobs result from indirect and spinoff
jobs for loggers and truckers, etc.
Over
the past number of years our mill has been modernized to incorporate two
dry kilns, a new planer, a grading chain and packaging plant, chemical
dipping facility (to prevent blue stain in Eastern White Pine), and a
new head saw carriage. A combination bull edger equipped with a guide
system allows for increased efficiency and more accurate sizing of the
lumber. A new saw filing facility has also been developed. Early in 2006
we completed a stacker building which “stickers” bales of
lumber automatically.
Our
most recent mill improvements include a canter (or small log) line, which
will enable us to maximize production for all sizes of logs; and a wood
waste system for our kiln burner, which replaces our former oil-fired
system and allows us to use our own bark, sawdust and shavings to fuel
the dry kilns.
