SAINTE-FLORENCE, QC— Bois CFM, a sawmill located here, was seeing increasing demand for its lumber before COVID hit. This prompted them to seek more automation in their plant, to increase production and reduce the overall cost of doing business.
The mill called upon USNR to install the state-of-the- art technology. Now that COVID has been here for months and now that USNR has installed its equipment, Bois CFM is putting the new machinery to work and moving closer to its production targets.
The new mill incorporates a complete new optimized primary and secondary line. The line includes an optimized End-Dog Carriage system with LASAR2 scanning, canter heads, a Quad Arbor Saw Box and a Vertical Sawing Arbor Gang.
Sideboards are routed to a new optimized edger system comprised of USNR’s Maximizer infeed to a Saw Boss edger box with BioLuma 2900LV sensors. The system features BioVision grading with Deep Learning technology to further improve the decision-making process. The mill’s trimmer was also equipped with USNR optimization and BioLuma 2900LV sensors for geometric and vision scanning, along with Deep Learning technology.
Bois CFM mill management noted, “We believe the end-dogger system has a bright future in Hardwood processing. It could replace up to half of the existing conventional log carriages in these types of applications. We’ve increased the range of our products by staying flexible, and our product mix continues to evolve daily.” For more information about USNR, please go to www.usnr.com.
