Forest Products Industry

USNR upgrades are designed to modernise existing equipment and increase productivity, raw material utilisation and operational reliability throughout the production process. Many sawmills can increase the capacity of their existing production lines without major investment in new machinery or extensive modifications.

An important part of USNR business is the continuous development of technologies and solutions to meet future needs. By taking a holistic approach, they develop upgrades for multiple areas of the production process, creating opportunities for a more modern and efficient sawmill that is ready for the future.

The right upgrade can help increase capacity, reduce maintenance costs and achieve a higher yield from existing installed production capacity. They offer a wide range of upgrades for both USNR equipment and equipment from other suppliers.

Contact your USNR representative to discuss which upgrade options could deliver the greatest value for your operation.

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Celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2025, McDowell Lumber Company is a family-owned hardwood sawmill processing primarily red oak, white oak, and poplar. In order to keep up with demand, the mill needed to retire its previous 15-year-old scrag mill and find not just a replacement, but an improvement.

That’s what led them to purchase and install a new USNR end dogging carriage with optimization, promising more efficiency and superior technology.    

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Sumitomo Forestry has unveiled the latest exhibition renderings of the Sumitomo Forestry Village Exhibition, 100 Forests, in conjunction with the six-month countdown to the International Horticultural Expo 2027 (GREENxEXPO 2027), scheduled to run from 19 March to 26 September 2027 in Yokohama, Japan. Source: Timberbiz Based on the company’s business activities centered on forests and trees for over 330 years since its founding, the Sumitomo Forestry Village Exhibition, 100 Forests, seeks to provide visitors an opportunity to understand the diverse ways forests, trees and humans are interconnected. Under the concept, “100 EYES, 100 FORESTS” (embodying the idea that a forest changes depending on the viewer, offering countless possibilities), the Sumitomo Forestry Village Exhibition, 100 Forests, provides an immersive experience exploring forests and trees from multiple perspectives. The Sumitomo Forestry Village Exhibition, 100 Forests, guides visitors through an exhibition space that includes a tunnel, theatre, museum and second-floor deck to experience the diverse values and possibilities of forests and trees. Visitors to the exhibition will first enter a tunnel that leads to a forest. The journey begins with a seemingly contradictory question: How can we protect forests while growing and logging trees? In the theatre and the museum, visitors will discover how forests are a treasure trove of life for a diverse range of living creatures. They will then learn how trees are planted, cultivated, and take the form of wood that supports everyday life. Beyond that are examples of the possibilities wood holds in the future in such areas as energy and biotechnology. At the end of the tour on the second-floor deck, instead of looking up at trees, visitors will get a bird’s eye view for an entirely different perspective of forests and trees that may bring new discoveries. GREENxEXPO 2027 will be the first international exposition that Sumitomo is participating in independently and it will showcase its initiatives and future challenges centred on the Wood Cycle. At the same time, it will provide a diverse range of perspectives on forests in the hopes that visitors will encounter the countless possibilities that forests and trees have to offer and discover a forest of their own.

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