Sawmill modernised
Watching Pinex Timber Products, Ltd’s new computerised bin sorter at its Tokoroa sawmill are, from left, Mr Bruce Stables, Tokoroa branch manager, Mr John Turner, Pinex’s managing director, and a trimsaw operator, Mr Peter Galpin. The 125 m-long building which houses the new equipment was purposebuilt. The bin sorter is part of a $21.7 million
sawmill modernisation programme.
Sorting sawn lengths of timber by computer, instead of manually, has increased output by about 30 cu.m a day, enabling the expanded sawmill to run tip to its full capacity of 540 cu.m.
Pinex Timber Products is the sawmilling and processing arm of Elders Resources NZFP, Ltd’s, Forest Products Group. Its multi-million dollar
investment in upgrading the Tokoroa, Putaruru, Rotorua and Tauranga sawmills has been made over the last 18 months. Mr Turner said the modernisation programme was aimed at making the sawmill’s production fully competitive on overseas markets.
“Some 35 per cent of total production will be exported in the 1989-90 financial year,” he said.
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