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COFI 2025 Convention Prince George, BC — We’ll Be There!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

Find out what innovations and influences are reshaping the future of the forest sector in BC and the world at the 2025 COFI (BC Council of Forest Industries) Convention

The BC Council of Forest Industries (COFI) will hold its Annual Convention from April 2-4, 2025, at the Prince George Civic Centre. This year’s theme “Where Do We Stand? Strategies for Competitiveness and Sustainability” will lead discussions regarding new developments for forestry sector, including global trade, product diversification, wildfire resilience, and fibre supply

COFI represents members of the lumber, pulp and paper and manufactured wood producers across BC, advocating for its members and working with government, First Nations, communities and other partners to promote the forestry industry across British Columbia

We are excited to be a networking sponsor of this annual event. We look forward to the keynote speakers & panel discussions and networking with other members of the forestry industry including supply chain partners, workforce leaders, and decision-makers.

The convention starts at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, April 2nd with an Icebreaker reception and continues until Friday, April 4th with a wrap-up with the President & CEO, of COFI, Kim Haakstad.
See the program at a glance.

Drop by Booths #24 & 25. Ask us about our Brunette BioSizer^®, Whole Log Chipper or our other wood processing equipment.

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Take Control of Your Lumber Supply

Friday, November 15th, 2024

Do you have feeding problems inside and outside your mill? The Brunette Flare Butt Reducer can help you take control of your lumber supply by converting troublesome logs into valuable lumber while improving productivity across every machine center in your mill.

Installing a Brunette Flare Butt Reducer at the start of the production line affords many advantages throughout the entire mill. including improved log handling and sorting, better alignment and log control during scanning. As well, more accurate curve sawing occurs without influence from the butt flare and, negative effects from conveyor chain transitions during the sawing are minimized.

When the flare butt ends are removed, sand, pebbles, and other debris, often embedded in the butt end of logs, are removed which reduces wear on saws and chipping knives. Removing large flare butt ends improves log handling on transfer decks.

The Brunette Flare Butt Reducer features a rugged main frame, extreme-duty lifting arm assembly, heavy-duty hold-down arm with a large pivot shaft. The hold down arm log turner and bottom log turners have electric drives. Our Flare Butt Reducer has a replaceable cutterhead shaft mounted in a B-Lok. The cutterhead assembly has 42 four-sided solid steel knives with a protective cover, powered by an 1800 RPM direct drive. The FBR can handle a maximum 40″ diameter log with a 54″diameter butt. The Brunette Flare Butt Reducer is also equipped with a short-log support.

The Brunette Dual Head Flare Butt Reducer

Our custom-designed Brunette Flare Butt Reducer Dual Head (DH) model has all the same features and advantages as our original model, including proper positioning of logs, accurate scanning, reduced downtime, and increased recovery. Additionally, this unique model eliminates the need to orient the logs. The Dual Head Flare Butt Reducer has the same solid construction as our standard Flare Butt Reducer, but it is equipped with two cutterheads; each with a pivoting mount for 100 HP 1800 RPM electric motor, a set of 42 four-sided knives, a hydraulic cylinder, and a pivoting cutterhead cover.

With either model Brunette FBR, you will gain the following benefits:

LOG SORTING:

• Transport and feeding of logs will be more reliable on all conveyors

LOG INTAKE AND DEBARKING

• Less wear & tear on the debarker means fewer spare parts used and mreduced downtime
• The debarker will handle bigger logs when the butt flare is removed
• Higher quality pulp chips as less bark is left between the butt flares

SAWMILL IN GENERAL

• Less transport problems — for logs, cants, and side pockets
• Higher feed speeds can be maintained without the butt flares
• Faster and easier turning of the logs

Brunette Flare Butt Reducers’ unique design and innovative cutting geometry increase recovery, while their robust construction reduces maintenance and improves uptime for continual return on investment.

Check out our complete line of diverse, innovative machines on our Equipment page or call 1.800.686.6679 to speak with one of our sales representatives.

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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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We’re Going to the Annual COFI Convention in Vancouver, BC

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Did you know that COFI (BC Council of Forest Industries) Convention is the largest gathering of the forest sector in Western Canada?

We are excited to be a networking sponsor of this annual event happening at JW Marriott Parq Vancouver Hotel and Conference Centre in Vancouver, BC from April 10-12, 2024.

This year’s convention will feature an exciting line-up of keynote addresses from notable leaders such as the Regional Chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, Terry Teegee; Canada’s Deputy Ambassador to the United States, Arun Alexander; and the Premier of British Columbia, the Honourable David Eby.

We are looking forward to the panel discussions on Economic & Investment Outlook, BC’s Strategy for Stabilizing Fibre Supply, A Conversation with BC Forest Industry Leaders, and the Forestry’s Future from a Local Government Perspective

The convention starts at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, April 10th to 2:00 pm on Friday, April 12.
See the program at a glance.

Drop by and visit us at Booths #30 & 31. Ask us about our Brunette BioSizer^®, Flare Butt Reducer or our other wood processing equipment.

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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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Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo 2024

Thursday, February 8th, 2024

“The educational event for the Wood Bioenergy Industry, including industrial wood pellets, biomass power, biofuels, in-woods chipping and biomass procurement.”

The biennial Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo is coming up fast! This year’s event will be held on March 12-13 in Atlanta, Georgia, and will be immediately followed by the Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), March 14-15. Both events are supported by Wood Bioenergy and Panel World magazines.

The Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo caters to industry professionals from the industrial wood pellet, biomass power, biofuels and in-woods chipping sectors. This year more than 40 speakers will address topics such as the big picture of wood pellets; sourcing and sustainability practices; growth avenues for biomass; future projects and their impacts to fiber allocation; and the ongoing and future development of multiple co-products from wood and non-woody biomass sources.

We are excited to support this event as a Silver sponsor and an exhibitor. We will be at Booth 209.

Hope to see you there!

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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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Timber Processing & Energy Expo – Portland, OR – Sept. 28-30, 2022

Monday, July 11th, 2022

The event is usually scheduled every other year, but because of the pandemic the 2020 show was cancelled. The last one held, in 2018, attracted nearly 3,000 exhibitors from 38 U.S. states, six Canadian provinces and 17 countries.

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. Make your plans today to be a part of the Timber Processing & Energy Expo!

We are excited to be exhibiting again at this exciting show. Mark your calendars for Sept. 28 – 30, 2022! We hope to see you there — we’ll be at Booth #347!

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Our Latest Ad — The Softwood Forest Products Buyer

Monday, June 27th, 2022

Our latest ad — featuring the Brunette / CBI Grizzly Mill Hog — can be seen in the May/June 2022 issue of the Softwood Forest Products Buyer on page 67.

Check out our Equipment page for information on our complete product line.

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