With its Wood-Mizer log processing line, New Heights Sawmill lies in the shadow of South Africa’s most extensive mountain range, the magnificent Drakensberg, which in Afrikaans means “dragon” mountain. The farm and sawmill trading as…
Nukor’s large stand featuring working machines gave visitors a taste of international industry trade shows where machines and dust extraction systems are put through their paces. Stephanie Maier of Nukor said the show exceeded their…
Unless affordable housing is available, the traditional building sector, architects and engineers, and the government procurement process prioritise timber and carbon-friendly projects like mass timber. The continued survival of South Africa’s sawmilling and wood products…
A highly productive sawmill in Liberia uses Wood-Mizer technology to turn large-diameter rubberwood logs into export-quality sawn timber for furniture and flooring production plants in Asia. The global demand for rubber motivated Firestone Tire &…
Continuous improvement describes the philosophy of the family-owned German wood products company, Best Wood Schneider. Seven years ago, it embarked on an ambitious greenfield project at Meßkirch to establish an automated end-to-end process of manufacturing…
Congratulations to Guy Payn Sawmills for participating in the Crickmay & Associates Intermill Comparison (IMC) and attaining the 2024 Sawmill Improvement Award. Andrew Crickmay announced the winner during Sawmilling South Africa’s (SSA’s) annual general meeting…
PG Bison is commissioning the state-of-the-art medium-density fibreboard (MDF) line at its Mkhondo manufacturing facility in June 2024, one month ahead of schedule and on budget, with full commercial production starting in July 2024. Gerhard…
“I realised there was money in wood when I saw a Wood-Mizer sawmill cutting a log,” says Krishna Wood Sawmill managing director Jinajunga Borisomoya. The former transport company owner delivered logs to sawmills in Kolwezi,…
It takes intuition, 75 years of experience, up-to-the-minute market knowledge, dedicated farmers and NCT’s resilient decision-making team to survive in the highly competitive biomass supply chain. Although it took 12 days in October 2023 to…
Wood-Mizer’s association with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) goes back to 1987 when the first Wood-Mizer thin-kerf narrow-bandsaws were introduced as an alternative to more traditional wide-band and circular sawblade saws. Sawmillers benefit from…
