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Join Us at the Timber Processing & Energy Expo in Portland

Monday, August 26th, 2024

The Timber Processing & Energy Expo is produced by Hatton-Brown Expositions an affiliate of Hatton-Brown Publishers and Timber Processing magazine, Panel World magazine, and Wood Bioenergy magazine.  This year’s show features exhibitions from major equipment companies and suppliers; and a supporting forum — Productivity & Efficiency: A Conference — on September 26, 2024 as an add-on for attendees. This one-day conference is designed for sawmill operators of all sizes. From morning sessions on sawmill byproducts, to afternoon presentations that will include seminars and workshops from top industry professionals covering mill operational issues and technologies.

This is a one-of-a-kind must attend event for professionals in the lumber, panel and engineered wood products and wood-based energy and biomass industries.

We’ll there and we look forward to connecting with you! Be sure to stop by and visit us at Booth#349. Find out about our forestry equipment and wood-processing systems.

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Everything You Need to Know About Brunette Chippers

Friday, April 19th, 2024

We don’t need to tell you that wood processing machinery operates under demanding conditions. When you are in the business of producing quality pulp chips you need Chippers that can handle the toughest jobs and deliver the highest production rates.

Today’s sawmills are faced with ever-increasing demands for capacity, efficiency and availability. They require custom solutions and rugged machines that are easy to maintain and perform well under rigorous use. While the main purpose of a sawmill is processing softwood or hardwood logs into quality lumber, they also need the means to process the sawdust, chips and bark as additional value streams.

Brunette Machinery offers a full line of drum chippers available in various sizes and model configurations. With their rigid structural frame and powerful high-inertia rotor, Brunette Chippers are built for optimal performance, lower maintenance costs, and the best quality chips at the highest capacities.

Our Chippers are renowned for producing quality pulp chips from short material that is difficult to control. Some of our models are capable of producing “micro-chips” — giving you access to more markets, and more flexibility.

Designed with a wide throat, Brunette Chippers can accommodate large pieces such as logs, lily pads, cores, and spinouts. The single piece tapered knives process material across the full width of the drum providing even wear and longer life.

Brunette Chippers have many features making them ideal for your application including adjustable chip length and the Brunette Quick-Change knife system for one-person changeouts.

The Benefits

Superior Chipping Performance: Brunette Drum Chippers combine high capacity and excellent cutting geometry to easily process green and dry trim ends, shorts, overs, lily pads, small logs, and butt ends.

High Quality Chips – Minimal Maintenance Costs: Brunette Chippers are furnished with first-class arbor bearings that ensure close knife to anvil clearance for optimum chip quality. The contour of the drum creates a clamping force to securely hold the material between the anvil and the knife path. This prevents the material from tipping up toward the drum, reducing maintenance costs.

Save Time & Money: The swing-away anvil saves valuable production time and repair costs associated with tramp metal.

The Construction

Frame: The rugged main frame is welded with reinforced steel plate bearing mounts and connecting flanges for infeed and rear discharge chutes. It is stress relieved and jig machined for accurate alignment of bearings, knives, and anvil. Heavy-duty bosses are spigotted into frame for pivot pins and shear pins.

Rotor: Constructed with welded steel plate segments, the high inertia rotor processes high volumes and uses less energy than other industrial chippers. The rotor is mounted to a HTSR shaft by two B-LOCs and the entire rotor assembly is supported by Pillow Block bearings. The rotor is adjustable for optimum knife-to-anvil clearance.

Access Hood: The hood opens with a hydraulic cylinder operated from a Hydraulic Power Unit with a 1.5HP 1800 rpm motor for safe, ergonomic, and easy knife changes.

Anvil: The swing away anvil assembly is secured by shear pins and comes complete with a bolt-on hardened, reversible anvil.

Knives: Brunette Chippers are equipped with solid, flat tapered knives, and quick-release knife clamps for easy knife changes. The knives process material across the full width of the drum for even wear and longer life.

Drive: V-belt transmission (where supplied)

Colour: Brunette Blue

The Options

Pneumatic Disk Brakes: These air adjustable, heavy-duty caliper brakes are built to bring the rotor to a stop quickly and safely. This quick stop action also speeds up knife changes. Guard is included for safety.

Screen: A bottom screen is available as an option for all Brunette Drum Chippers. Made from AR400 plate, this rugged bolt-on screen is designed to reduce overs — typically 0% to 3%.

Chute: The infeed chute mounts directly to the Drum Chipper ensuring a smooth transition for material entering the drum from a conveyor. The chute features one-piece construction with a 45-degree slope and comes complete with a large inspection door. The chute is equipped with a containment curtain to prevent debris blow back, heavy duty ribs for durability and an abrasion-resistant liner.

Key Knife Uni-Ridge System: This disposable turn-knife system is an alternative to Brunette’s standard quick-change flat tapered knives. The Key Knife system comes complete with Uni-Ridge Drum Chipper pocket assemblies including Uni-Ridge starter knives, counter knives, holders, and hardware. The Key Knife Uni-Ridge system is compatible with standard Brunette OEM knife clamps & studs.

The Safety Features

All Brunette Drum Chippers are equipped with the following safety features:

Electrical Safety Interlocks
• Hood lift
• Swing-away anvil
• Shaft motion sensor

Mechanical Safety Locks
• Hood lock
• Rotor lock
• Anvil restraints

Automatic shutdown
Devices wired to common junction box

Which Brunette Chipper is Right for Your Mill?

The Brunette Drum Chippers are available in various sizes, models, and both drop feed and horizontal configurations to suit your needs. Find out which one is right for you

Brunette Drum Chipper Model 3230

This Drum Chipper is built for the production of high-quality pulp chips from oversized chips, trim blocks, and small edgings. The precision machined, high inertia rotor and the large infeed ensures high capacity and optimum chipping performance that yields a consistently uniform, quality product. The 3230 Drum Chipper comes with three or four knives and is available with a drop feed or a horizontal feed and either a bottom or rear discharge.

Technical Data:
• Rotor Size: 32″ diameter
• Rotor Speed: 650 RPM (Nominal)
• Knives 3 or 4
• Infeed Width: 30″
• Shaft End Diameter: 4.9375″
• Chip Length, adjustable: 0.625″ to 1.25″

Brunette Horizontal Drum Chipper Model 4840H

The newest Chipper in our Drum Chipper line is the 4840 Horizontal Drum Chipper. This Chipper is designed with a horizontal feed (including feedworks), and either a bottom or rear discharge. Available in two models: the 4840HV Veneer and the 4840HT Sawmill. Both models are built with the same robust features as our other Chipper models. They are available with 3,4, or 6 knives.

The 4840H4V model features an anvil that is raised closer to the rotor so that the knives hit at an angle for thinner material. This model processes veneer waste rejects, round-up, cores, and spinouts all in one machine.

The 4840HT model significantly reduces overs from trim blocks and reject boards.

Technical Data:
• Rotor Size: 48″ diameter
• Rotor Speed: 533 RPM (Nominal)
• Knives: 3, 4, or 6
• Infeed Width: 40″
• Infeed Height: 18″
• Powered Top Press Roll, with a standard 7½ HP reducer, & a hydraulic cylinder to adjust down pressure
• Powered Bottom Feed Rolls with electric motor/reducer, roll to roll chain drive,
• Bottom Feed Rolls have replaceable chromed bed plates and bolt-on side liners. Optional speed up roll
• Upper frame has a large access door for maintenance, and a bolt-on removable section for rotor access
• Upper feedworks are contained in a pivoting modular housing (removeable)

Brunette Whole Log Drum Chipper Model 6040

The Brunette Whole Log Chipper is a horizontal-feed extreme-duty machine that can process logs up to 26″ in diameter. Hydraulic-driven powered feedworks — a top pressroll and two lower bedrolls — control log feed to produce high quality pulp chips for pulp and paper mills or micro-chips consistent in thickness and size for biomass and pellet industries.

Two rotors are available for our Whole Log Chipper – the standard rotor, for up to 1″ nominal pulp chip, and our unique MicroChip rotor which is designed to produce a ¼” nominal chip. Each rotor can be outfitted with either our standard Brunette quick-change knife system or the Key Knife disposable turn-knife system.

Technical Data:
• Rotor Size: 60″ diameter
• Rotor Speed: 375 RPM (Nominal)
• Knives: 4, 6, or 8
• Infeed Width: 40″
• Infeed Height: 26″
• Pulp Chip Length, adjustable: 0.625″ to 1″
• “Micro” Chip Length, adjustable: 0.25″ to .875″
• Powered Top Press Roll has two hydraulic cylinders, hydraulic motor mounted into roll
• Powered Bottom Feed Roll has 7.5HP electric motor/reducer, and standard flex insert coupling
• Bottom Feed Roll also has replaceable chromed bed plates and bolt-on side liners

Whole Log Chipper 6040 Optional Feature

The Brunette Whole Log Chipper can be supplied in a modular format complete with infeed conveyor, chipper drive motor and hydraulic power unit, all designed on a rigid-structured, one-piece frame suitable for containerizing.

Questions?

Would you like more information about our Drum Chipper Line? Do you want to get more from your mill?
Call us at 604.522.3977 or Toll Free: 1.800.686.6679 or email us at:
Our sales team can answer all your questions. Ask us about our complete line of wood processing equipment.

This article is reprinted from our Brunette Machinery email campaign “Everything You Need to Know About Brunette Chippers” published Feb. 27, 2023

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Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE)

Thursday, February 8th, 2024

The biennial Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) is the educational event for the worldwide wood products industries including Veneer, Plywood, OSB, MDF, Particleboard, Engineered Wood Products, Mass Timber and Value Added.

The 2024 Panel & Engineered Lumber (PELICE), will be held March 14-15 in Atlanta, Georgia, immediately following the Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo.

Hosted by Panel World magazine and Georgia Research Institute, this event caters to wood products producers and equipment and technology providers.

The theme of this year’s biennial event is “A Higher Level of Focus.” Nearly 40 speakers will present an exciting array of sessions including new or refined technologies, new project development, project implementation and post-project analysis, and more. With an expected attendance of more than 450 people including 100 exhibitors, this show promises to be a not-to-be missed event.

We are proud to be a Silver sponsor of the 2024 Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE.) We will be at Booth 205 and drop by and say hello!

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Our Top Five Maintenance Tips To Help You Get More From Your Mill

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

Every mill owner wants to maximize their equipment lifespan and prevent major machine crashes. They know unplanned downtime can mean heavy financial costs and lengthy production delays.

Your wood-processing machinery is a significant investment and the heart of your business. Keeping your equipment in optimum condition is fundamental to increasing your ROI and extending the life of your machines. Regular maintenance can identify potential safety problems, prevent costly breakdowns, optimize performance, and maintain product quality.

Below are our top five maintenance tips for Brunette Chippers, Grinders, BioSizers and other wood-processing machines to help you get more from your mill.

Our Top 5 Maintenance Tips

1. READ YOUR PARTS AND SERVICE MANUAL
We provide a manual that contains information about your specific machine, including safety instructions, installation and start-up instructions, maintenance & lubrication schedules, mechanical drawings, spare parts lists and more.

2. PROVIDE OPERATOR TRAINING
Ensure that operators and technicians understand the operation and safety procedures of every machine. Training should include knowledge of equipment limitations and the workings of all systems and controls. Trained operators and technicians are often the first to notice minor problems before they become major failures. Training programs also ensure that operators learn the proper usage of the machines, thereby minimizing the chance of unintentional damage.

3. PERFORM DAILY CHECKS
A daily checklist of maintenance tasks completed at the beginning or end of the workday can identify signs of wear or other minor problems that require attention. These tasks are in your Parts and Service manual. It’s a good practice to keep records of the dates/times of the completed tasks.

4. FOLLOW A LUBRICATION SCHEDULE
Proper lubrication is essential to peak machine function. Lubricant reduces friction between moving parts, protecting them from wear and tear. Monitoring and replacing your machines’ lubrication levels will significantly increase your equipment’s lifespan. Recommended lubrication schedules are found in your Parts & Service manual.

5. STOCK KEY PARTS
To increase your mill’s efficiency, Brunette recommends stocking an inventory of parts. A supply of critical spare parts can allow your team to quickly get your machine running and minimize downtime and service costs. We provide a list of spare parts you can purchase to have on hand to prevent untimely shutdowns.

PARTS & SERVICE DEPARTMENT

If you need help getting an emergency part because of a breakdown or ordering recommended spare parts, trust our team of qualified experts to get you what you need — fast!

We have a reputation for excellent customer after-sale care. Our team members are experienced professionals who take pride in providing the best customer service possible.

We want to help you get more from your mill, which means keeping your machines running at optimum performance. Our qualified service technicians are available to answer your questions or provide you with technical service, either remotely or on-site.

Our technicians are OEM factory-trained. Our on-site service includes complete machine inspections, detailed follow-up reports and preventative maintenance recommendations. We can provide remote training and instructional sessions if required.

Explore our Parts & Service page on this site for details, order forms, service bulletins, maintenance sheets and more, available for download.

To contact our Parts & Service Department during regular business hours, please call 604.522.3977 or toll-free 1.800.686.6679 — we are ready to assist you. You can also reach us online through our online contact form or email us at .

If you require our Prince George facility, please call 250.563.0596 or email Prince George office or the Prince George shop.

Our Parts & Service Department has a 24-hour emergency contact for unexpected after-hours incidents that require immediate attention. To reach us in an emergency, call 604.813-3394

Maintaining your wood-processing equipment is critical to your bottom line. By developing a regular maintenance schedule and following our maintenance tips and the guidelines in your parts and service manual, you can expand the working life of your machinery, maximize the efficiency of your operations and eliminate costly downtime.

QUESTIONS?

Want to know more about our wood-processing systems including rebuilds, upgrades, and our innovative product line, please contact our sales team.

This article is reprinted from the Brunette Machinery email campaign “Our Top Five Maintenance Tips To Help You Get More From Your Mill” published Oct. 25, 2023

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Brunette Machinery: Your Solutions Provider!

Wednesday, October 25th, 2023

We are your solutions provider. Brunette specializes in supplying wood-processing and material-handling systems to sawmills, power plants, plywood mills and pellet plants across North America. From a single machine to a complete plant system, our products meet the highest standards, are easy to implement and provide true benefits.

Our key products include the extreme-duty stationary Brunette Drum Chipper, the Brunette/CBI Grizzly Mill Hog — the heavy-weight champion of waste wood grinding; the Brunette BioSizer® — a high-speed secondary grinder; the Brunette E-Sweeps — electric log sweeps; the Brunette Reclaimer — a rotary debarker; scalping screens; flare butt reducers; and the innovative Brunette RTL® Log Singulator®.

Read more about our latest products on page 87 and see our full-page ad on page 88 of the Softwood Forest Product Buyers 2023 Wholesaler/Distributor Special Buying Issue.

While you are reading through the the SFPB’s Special Issue, check out page 110 for a photo of our Brunette Team (Kirk, Sonia, and Ryan) at the Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo held in Nashville this past August. Turn to page 142, to meet the newest member of our sales team, Ryan Coates.

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Need a Custom Engineered Solution for Your Next Mill Project?

Thursday, October 19th, 2023

Brunette Machinery is renowned across North America for manufacturing and supplying forestry equipment such as the Brunette Drum Chipper. But did you know that we can provide custom engineered turn-key solutions based on your unique requirements?

Our Latest Project

Recently, Brunette Machinery designed, manufactured and installed a custom engineered biomass system consisting of a single 18-roll Disc Scalping Screen, a specialized infeed chute assembly, and two Brunette 4872B BioSizers®. The infeed chute, complete with a Diverter Gate, can convey material to both BioSizers operating simultaneously or one at a time.

Our innovative engineering and sales teams worked closely with our client to custom design an infeed chute with a diverter gate to handle the mill’s high volume, increase productivity and reduce maintenance costs. Our team devised this chute assembly to accommodate the customer’s budgetary restraints while fitting the new equipment into the original space.

During the engineering phase, we measured the current area to confirm conformance with the engineering drawings supplied by the customer. We considered the type and volume of the material to be processed and discussed the project goals. Our team collaborated throughout the process with the customer to develop the perfect solution.

The resulting design met all the customer’s production requirements. This custom-engineered system fits into the designated space. The customer’s conveyor system will feed the new Disc Scalping Screen that will furnish the screened material to the new infeed chute that feeds both BioSizers.

Ask Us How a Custom Engineered Solution Can Work for You

Our talented team can fulfill your project’s specific requirements, from technical sales to engineering & design, manufacturing, installation, training, and parts & services.

Contact us to learn how we can deliver a custom engineered solution to help you get more from your mill.
Call us at: 604.522.3977 or email:

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Palm Desert, California — We’ll Be There For the EWTA Info Fair!

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

We’ll be in Palm Desert, California for the Engineered Wood Technology Association (EWTA) Info Fair 2023 on October 14-17.

EWTA’s  Info Fair is the association’s biggest networking event of the year. The show, held in conjunction with APA’s Annual Meeting, is an opportunity to meet and network with key decision-makers among the APA membership.

The Engineered Wood Technology Association (EWTA) is a nonprofit trade association representing product, equipment and service providers to the North American engineered wood products manufacturing industry. Based in Tacoma, Washington, the EWTA is a related organization of APA – The Engineered Wood Association, the leading North American association of structural engineered wood product manufacturers.

We’ll be at Booth #502— hope to see you there!

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Let’s Get Down to Business!

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

Let’s get down to business! That’s the theme of this year’s 2023 Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition (EXPO 2023).

For more than 70 years, the Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition (EXPO) has provided exhibitors and attendees the opportunity to build relationships and share ideas. This year will be no exception — EXPO 2023 promises to be an exciting and informative event showcasing innovative new equipment, products and services for the sawmilling industry. The event will be held at the state-of-the-art convention center, Music City Center, located in the midst of Nashville’s thriving culinary, music, sports and cultural scene!

We are looking forward to seeing you there! Stop by our booth — #1604 and let’s get down to business!

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Come Work With Us!

Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

Are you thinking of a career change or currently looking for a new position? Brunette Machinery is actively hiring for several open roles on our team. If you want to work in a challenging, supportive and friendly environment, find out how you can come work with us!

Intermediate Mechanical Designer/Draftsperson — is This You?

Are you an outside-of-the-box thinker? Are you highly motivated with strong problem-solving skills with a Mechanical Engineering Technology diploma or degree? If this sounds like you then we want to hear from you. You can read the full Intermediate Mechanical Designer/Draftsperson job description here. Don’t forget to check out our Careers page for details about all our current opportunities.

By the way, we always welcome resumes from experienced and knowledgeable technical sales representatives. This position is key to driving sales growth, assisting with company strategic planning, new product development and product launches.

If you have a comprehensive knowledge of wood-processing machinery and a strong desire to succeed in a vibrant, collaborative environment, apply today! Find out more on our careers page or read the full job description here.

Ready to apply, but curious if working at Brunette Machinery would be right for you? Read the top five reasons to come work with us.

Top Five Reasons to Join Our Team*

1. We are a premier supplier of wood-processing and material handling systems to the North American forest industry
We provide custom engineered solutions built with leading-edge technology and an unsurpassed level of quality to give our customers an important advantage in our ever-changing global economy. Working at Brunette means you will be part of a creative, collaborative team providing the best products in the business!

2. Brunette has been in business since 1942
Brunette Machinery has weathered storms and enjoyed many successes in its 80-year history.  When you join our team, you will be working with a diverse, committed group in a long-standing, thriving company.

3. Brunette Machinery has a great reputation
We live and work by our corporate values. Brunette employees expect excellence and take pride in their work. Brunette Machinery strives to make the team better by providing an open and honest environment where the diverse talents of the team are recognized and appreciated.  As a result, our reputation in the industry for quality products, exceptional customer service and a synergetic workplace, is bar none.

4. Brunette’s trusted leadership
One of the many reasons that the team is happy to work at Brunette, is the company’s leadership. Owner and president, Kirk Forbes, believes in the team’s abilities to work together and fosters a culture of cooperation, diversity, inclusion and fairness. He continues to build the company by investing in growth, product innovation, customers, and the Brunette team.

5. What’s the best thing about working at Brunette?
Simple. It’s the people. We’re a dynamic, supportive, diverse group committed to delivering extraordinary value. And, we are a fun, cooperative team that values and respects each other!

* Top Five Reasons reprinted from Career Change? Looking for Work? May 25th, 2022

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Brunette BioSizer Goes to High Level

Tuesday, September 29th, 2020

Tolko Industries and Pinnacle Renewable Energy have partnered to build a $64 million wood pellet plant at Tolko’s sawmill in High Level, Alberta.

The Northern Pellet Limited Partnership is an equal-owned venture operated by Pinnacle with Tolko providing the raw material for the pellet production. The Partnership expects to have a production capacity of 170,000 to 200,000 metric tons per year. Read the article on page 32 in the September/October 2020 issue of the Logging & Sawmilling Journal.

In the Industry Technology section of the same issue, see a write-up on our Brunette BioSizer^® on page 12 and don’t miss our ad on page 33!

We are proud to have supplied the Brunette BioSizer^® for this exciting project. The BioSizer will perform the first step in the pelletizing process — the primary size reduction of wood fiber for the manufacture of high-quality wood pellets.

Find details on the Brunette BioSizer here. Visit our Equipment page for information on all our wood-processing and material handling equipment and systems.

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