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N E W S At the Ligna exhibition in May this year, Wood-Mizer exhibited its new WM1000 sawmill for the first time. This attracted considerable interest because it is the largest sawmill manufactured by the company to date. Designed to cut logs up to 1.7m in diameter, the WM1000 has been developed to offer an affordable solution for sawing large, heavy logs - particularly tropical hardwoods - and takes blades of 50-75mm width. During Ligna, journalists from the Belarusian publication Woodworking News asked wh ]\