2017 International Forest Industries Magazines May 2017 SHOW Special | Page 22

LUMBER PROCESSING NEWS
System TM to supply optimizing cross-cut line
to Niagara Sawmilling
Niagara Sawmilling has purchased
a major System TM line; a solution
that includes a large optimizing
cross-cut line, a horizontal and a
vertical finger jointing line.
Niagara Sawmilling’s machinery
will be characterized by an
optimizing cross-cut line. It will
include an automated infeed
system, followed by a planer, of
which the incoming packs will be
fed into. These will come out as
dressed four sides.
Subsequently, wood will
be transported to a Microtec
Goldeneye multi sensor scanner
model GE502, which will include
an X-ray. This will assess wood
quality, as well as uncover wood
defects and their respective
positions. Thus, scan results
will be processed and wood will
be optimized in conformity with
System TM’s concept of maximum
wood utilization. Next, workpieces
will be cut with high speed and
precision once they arrive at the
three optimizing cross-cut saws,
model Opti-Kap 5003.
After being processed by the
System TM is a the leading
global supplier of
customized cross-cut lines
in the solid wood industry
cross-cut saws, the workpieces will
proceed to a sorting belt of three
different sorting options. The first
option will be designed for blocks
that have to undergo re-ripping.
The second option will be intended
for finger-jointing blocks, and
finally, the third sorting option will
be intended for long fixed lengths.
Niagara Sawmilling produces
sawn timber for New Zealand and
export markets.
Schweighofer Group names Michael Proschek-Hauptmann
new Head of Compliance & Sustainability
Proschek-Hauptmann will be
responsible for strengthening
the group’s compliance and
sustainability agenda as well as for
further engaging in dialogue with
external stakeholders.
Prior to his engagement
with the Schweighofer Group,
Michael Proschek-Hauptmann
was Managing Director of the
Sawmills
SERRA
Austrian Umbrella Association
of Environmental NGOs
(Umweltdachverband) for more
than eight years and also served
as a long-standing member of
the Board of Directors of the
forest certification label PEFC
International.
He is a biologist by training
and has been actively engaged
in the environmental, NGO and
sustainability fields ever since
he embarked on his career.The
Schweighofer Group is primarily
active in the wood processing
industry but also in dissolving pulp
production, forest management,
bioenergy production and real
estate.
West Fraser appoints VP
Finance & CFO
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18 International Forest Industries | APRIL / MAY 2017
West Fraser announced that
Larry Hughes will retire as Vice
President, Finance and CFO at the
end of March 2017. Chris Virostek
will become Vice President,
Finance and CFO upon Mr. Hughes’
retirement.
Virostek is a Chartered
Professional Accountant, CA
and has held a number of senior
financial roles at Masonite
International Corporation since
2002, most recently as Senior
Vice President of Strategy and
Corporate Development.Mr.
Hughes will remain with the
Company until the end of June
Chris Virostek,Vice President,
Finance and CFO
2017 to assist with the transition
process and thereafter may provide
advisory services to West Fraser’s
management.