The Seneca sawmill's upragde in Eugene, Oregon, is already half completed. The investment rises up to $60 million in equipment upgrade and should be ready this September, according to The Register Guard.
The investment in the complex off Highway 99 will prepare Seneca sawmill to be ready for the changing lumber market and it will also increase its efficiency. Builders of all around Oregon are investing in dry lumber, dried in a kiln, rather than in green lumber that hasn’t been dried.
Thus, as The Register Guard reports, the upgrades in Seneca sawmill will allow it to dry a larger lumber quantity.
“This is all designed for the future. Right now, we have certain segments of the market that we don’t sell to because we don’t have the dry dimension product,” said Chief Executive Todd Payne.
With the new upgrades, Seneca sawmill will be able to produce 2-by boards, from 4 to 14 inches and 8 to 28 feet in length. The complex in Eugene consists of 3 sawmills and all of them uses computerized information with laser scans. The Seneca one will also include scanners in the lumber mill dimension.
“I think what a lot of people don’t understand is how much we have evolved as an industry, utilizing technology to improve efficiency,” Payne added.
All the sawmills’ annual capacity rises up to 430 million board feet.
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