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USNR – The NEW CSS features the latest in optimization and controls

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USNR’s new Compact Shape Saw (CSS) system comprises multiple modules that work to provide unprecedented performance. This includes the CSS Canter, feed modules, and the CSS Gang.

It also features the latest in USNR controls and optimization technology. This includes their state-of-the-art Self-Adjusting Machine (SAM) Sensing technology. The system continuously compares the measurements to the optimizer’s solution to identify target versus actual cant widths.

It then calculates cutting errors for the saws or chippers, providing this information directly to operators and quality control (QC) staff. After scanning enough pieces, the Gang SAM determines the necessary bias adjustments and updates the settings for each device, either automatically or with approval from QC staff. Chippers are adjusted symmetrically to maintain optimal performance.

To learn more about the controls and optimization technology, as well as the entire CSS system, contact your USNR representative.

CSS Controls

The control system features a new hydraulic force control system for all pressrolls. It replaces the legacy hydraulic over air pressrolls. This more accurately controls how hard any given piece is held against the bed elements.

This reduces the wear and tear on components, the quantity of parts to maintain, and the ability for pieces to convey uncontrolled through the system.

CSS Optimizer

The USNR CSS Optimizer empowers sawmills with advanced curve sawing capabilities, enabling precise placement of products with customized values, targets, and wane rules within the cant.
Its geometric feature recognition accurately classifies user-defined grades based on key characteristics like diameter, length, taper, and sweep. With the CSS and downstream equipment fully virtualized within the optimization engine, mills can confidently project production outcomes and maximize product yield.

SAM Sensing

USNR’s Gang SAM System ensures precise, on-size cutting for lumber by automatically correcting errors in real-time. Using advanced laser sensors, the Gang system scans each cant before and after it has been sawn, capturing crucial data on sawing and chipping errors and making bias adjustments to correct any cutting issues.

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USNR Introducing new innovations at TP&EE!

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USNR ‘s powerful history as a strong visionary leader has brought many important innovations to the industry, and it’s time to unveil our next groundbreaking product development.

We’re revealing a brand-new piece of equipment exclusively at this year’s Timber Processing & Energy Expo, September 25-27 in Portland, OR. We’re thrilled to introduce this latest product offering from USNR that is as innovative as you are.

We’ll also be showcasing new advances in optimization and panel technology. You’ll be able to see special displays from our parts and upgrades teams and meet our expansive network of experts so you can learn more about what USNR has to offer.

Join us as our special guest with this form and be one of the first in the world to witness this exciting moment!

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USNR in Chile

Major order for USNR in Chile

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USNR has announced the order of a complete sawmilling system to the Chilean company Foraction Chile. This highly advanced production line is designed to process Radiata Pine and will be installed at a greenfield site in the Los Rios region about 800 km south of Santiago.

The scope of the contract is a complete sawmill – from the debarker/log sorter optimizer, through the log breakdown equipment, finishing with the trim/sort/stack line. This project marks one of USNR’s most comprehensive undertakings outside of North America and Europe.

The saw line will be a European-style Merry-Go-Round line that has proven to be very successful in Chile throughout the years. The primary sawing machines will be Sawmaster 1600 band saws arranged in a quad configuration. In this iteration of USNR’s ever-evolving Merry-Go-Round concept, there will be an additional chipper canter and a Circular Saw 700 gang saw. This arrangement makes it possible for certain log sizes to pass straight through the saw line, thus maximizing the productivity on all sawing patterns.

Catech XT edger optimizer
Catech XT edger optimizer

A complete, 45-bin green sorting and stacking line completes USNR’s portion of the project. Main components in the sorting line include a Revolver Lug Loader, Multi-Track Fence, and a Multi-Saw Trimmer. The stacker line features a catching lug tier-forming table in front of USNR’s Low-Profile Stacker with an overhead tier management system to ensure maximum productivity.

In addition to the equipment supplied by USNR, USNR’s partner in Chile, Solecia, will be responsible for supplying the log sorting line, log infeed equipment, and residual handling equipment for this project.

USNR along with our partner Solecia has a long history in Chile, with many installations and devoted customers. This order reinforces USNR’s strong position in the Chilean market and USNR’s position as the leading supplier of Radiata Pine processing technology.

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USNR announces promotions – Eric Brousseau: Vice President – Manufacturing

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Brousseau will be responsible for overseeing USNR’s global manufacturing operations. After earning his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at McGill University, he joined the Forano business in 1994 as a mechanical engineer.

He was later promoted to be Forano’s Engineering Manager, which was the position he held at the time USNR acquired Forano in 2001. For the past 13 years, Brousseau has been the General Manager of USNR’s Plessisville operations where he has driven a program of continuous innovation and process improvement.

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USNR announces promotions  Chuck Van Horn: Vice President – Capital Projects

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Van Horn will continue to be responsible for overseeing USNR’s capital machinery projects, but now as a Vice President. This promotion recognizes the critical role he plays within USNR’s management organization.

After studying forestry at Ohio State University and spending four years in the United States Air Force, in 1990 he joined the Hemco business, which was later acquired by USNR.

Starting as a service technician based in Hot Springs, Van Horn has progressed through jobs in electrical design and PLC programming, then later held several management roles in which he was responsible for overseeing service, electrical engineering, and controls engineering departments. Since 2015, he has served as USNR’s Director of Capital Projects.

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USNR announces promotions  Mark Culpepper: Vice President – Turn-key Projects

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Along with a team of project managers that he will direct, Culpepper will be responsible for managing all turn-key projects for USNR. He comes into this role after more than 32 years at Mid-South Engineering, most recently as Vice President.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering in 1983 from the University of Arkansas. He is a registered Professional Engineer in multiple US states.

Over the course of his career with Mid-South Engineering, he served as project manager for over 25 greenfield and major brownfield sawmill projects, in addition to managing hundreds of other industrial projects involving wood pellets, LVL, plywood, structural wood products, and other industries outside of wood products.

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USNR names Dale Brown as President

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USNR names Dale Brown as President. He will be responsible for overseeing all day-to-day operations of USNR.

A graduate of the business program at Linfield College, Brown began his professional career when he joined USNR as an accounting clerk in 1986. Since that time he has been promoted numerous times, progressively gaining greater responsibilities within the company and, along the way, developing experience and expertise across all the major functions of the business.

USNR operates four large manufacturing plants in the United States, Canada, and Sweden, in addition to more than a dozen regional engineering, service, and sales offices in North America and across Europe.

The company is best known around the world for providing end to end solutions for sawmills and planer mills, including log lines, curve sawing gangs, edger lines, trim-sort-stack systems, dry kilns, and the optimization and control technologies that maximize the output and performance of that equipment.