Experience Canada's First TC

Experience North America's First TC Kiln

With the hope of brighter times ahead

It’s time to sum up the year and look ahead to 2024. Following a few truly successful years for the industry, 2023 saw a major slowdown. The economic unrest was not confined to our industry, but characterized many parts of society.

News

8 March 2024

Quality in focus when Swedish sawmill Hilmer Andersson invests wood dryers

To further increase the quality yield, the family-owned sawmill Hilmer Andersson has invested in a FB continuous kiln and three batch kilns from Valutec. The total investment cost amounts to approximately € 4 million.

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North America's first TC kiln!

In October 2019 Valutec started up North America's first continuous TC-kiln at Pleasant River's sawmill Moose River in Jackman, ME in October 2019.

Valutec's history

Meet the company that has delivered more than 4,000 timber kilns over the year.

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Experience Canada's first TC kiln!

2020 Valutec started up Canada's first TC Continuous Kiln at JD Irving’s Grand Lake Timber, NB, Canada.

Kai Matthies

Production Manager, Ziegler

"We bought Valusim for our continuous kilns because it is important to know exact drying times for every product as we need to be able to plan our production process very precisely, especially to optimize our inventory and unloading. We also believe that it's an important tool to achieve higher quality,"