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Tis the Season to be Grateful
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
We value each and every one of our customers and cannot express our gratitude enough for your ongoing support. May your Christmas be blessed with the love and warmth of family and friends. We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year.
We have changed our hours of operation for the holiday season. For our Vancouver hours, please click here. For our Prince George hours, please click here. Thank you!
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To Our Valued Customers
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
November 18, 2021
As you are aware, Southern British Columbia has been hit with an extreme rainstorm that caused widespread flooding, mudslides, and highway washouts. As a result, all connecting highways and rail lines from the Fraser Valley to the coast have been closed.
These closures have affected our shipment of parts and equipment to our customers in B.C. and the rest of Canada.
Once the flooding has subsided and the highways have reopened, we expect to resume our normal shipping schedules. The timeline on this is still to be determined.
Please read our official press release.
Tags: BC Rainstorm, Brunette Machinery, Extreme Flooding, Highway Closures, Shipping News
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Brunette’s Innovative Approaches Sustain Its Success
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Our innovative approaches and our extensive manufacturing experience ensure that our custom engineered solutions provide you with the products you need to get the most from your mill.
Brunette Machinery’s commitment to excellence and the development of a diverse product line gives our customers an important advantage as they compete in an ever-changing global economy. Our robust research and development program offers innovative and technically advanced wood-processing and material handling systems built for the toughest applications.
Read more about Brunette’s innovative approaches to new product development on page 72-73 of the Softwood Forest Product Buyers Special Buying Issue.
Tags: Brunette Machinery, Flare Butt Reducer, Forestry Industry, Innovative Approaches, Material handling systems, Wood-processing systems
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Remembrance Day
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
Remembrance Day, originally called Armistice Day, continues to be observed on November 11 every year, in Canada and other countries, to honour and remember the men and women who served during times of war and peace.
Every year, since 1919, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Canadians commemorate the armistice agreement that ended the First World War at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1919.
We pause in a moment of silence.
For those who leave never to return. For those who return but are never the same. We remember.
Our office will be closed on Thursday, November 11th, 2021 in observance of Remembrance Day.
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Brunette Delivers a Chip Supply System to Smithers, BC
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
Brunette Machinery has been a premium supplier to the forest industry for over 75 years, specializing in wood processing and material handling systems. Our products are ideal for lumber, panel board, pulp/paper, and renewable energy industries and include chippers, hogs, log sweeps, conveyors, debarkers, Log Singulators®, butt reducers, and other wood processing and log handling equipment.
But we don’t just sell chippers and hogs! Our sales team collaborates with our customers to provide complete wood processing systems that are designed to suit their needs. From a single machine to a complete plant system, our products meet the highest standards, are easy to implement and provide true benefits.
Our latest project involved just such a plan. Our customer, a producer of industrial wood pellets, needed to expand their pellet mill facility due to increased global demand for sustainable wood bioenergy.
Our proposal was to provide them with a complete Brunette Chip Supply System, designed to maximize yield and profitability. This turnkey project includes process planning, equipment, start-up, and after-sales services. The main targets for this system are to increase uptime and capacity, improve chip quality, minimize energy consumption, and maximize raw material yield.
Our custom-designed chip supply system will provide our customer with all the elements they need to convert whole logs into microchips as the first step of producing wood pellets for biomass fuel. From the scaffolding and maintenance platforms that house the log deck, to the conveyors and the chipper, they will have the benefit of dealing with one supplier for the entire project. Not only will this increase output, but it will also save on maintenance costs.
This Brunette Chip Supply System includes:
- Brunette Whole Log ‘Micro’ Chipper
- Chipper Infeed Chain Conveyor
- Refuse Conveyor
- Refuse Conveyor Chuting
- Chipper and Infeed System Support Structure c/w Catwalks
- Custom Flow Control Gate
- Chipper Outfeed Chuting
- Chipper Outfeed Chain Conveyor
- Chipper Outfeed Belt Conveyor
- Outfeed Conveyor Supports c/w Maintenance Access Platform
- 20ft Container c/w install of HPU and Hydraulic Plumbing Design
- Engineering, and Project Management
After inspection and testing, the components of the chipper system were loaded onto 12 trucks and delivered to our customer in Northern BC. Our work will continue as, Brunette Machinery will be involved with the start-up and commissioning of this system.
Brunette Machinery supplies extreme-duty machinery and complete chipper systems that meet the highest performance and reliability criteria. Our innovative machines are designed to handle the toughest conditions and can process any wood or waste wood product.
Our extensive experience ensures our products are built for longevity with low maintenance costs. Our robust R&D program gives our customers a competitive edge in today’s fast-changing global economy. We pride ourselves on our excellent customer service and live by our corporate values.
For more information on our company and our products, visit our Equipment or Parts and Service pages or call us at 1.800.686.6679.
Tags: Brunette Machinery, Chip Supply System, Micro Chipper, Sustainable Wood Bioenergy, Whole Log Chipper
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OptiSaw 2021 – Virtual Summit
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
On September 16, 2021, we will be at the OptiSaw 2021 Virtual Summit! Join us on Thursday from 11:00 – 2:00 EST to learn about new technologies & processes that can help boost sawmill’s productivity. Registration is FREE!
As in 2020, COVID-19 has compelled individuals and organizations to find creative ways to hold events. OptiSaw, a one-day education forum focused on the future of sawmilling, is such an event.
OptiSaw 2021 will be online again. This year’s summit will provide virtual sessions from industry-leading technology manufacturers and researchers, offering you solutions to increase your mill’s productivity and efficiency.
Be sure to register for this free forum and plan to attend this one-day event. Starting at 11:00am EST on Thursday, September 16, OptiSaw will host series of live seminars on the newest technologies that can help increase your sawmill’s profitability. Featuring industry experts from manufacturing and supplier sectors, these sessions will offer timely information on a range of topics.
Don’t miss Brunette’s OptiSaw presentation! Join Patrick Browne live at 12:00pm EST as he explains how the inclusion of the Optical Belt Scale technology in Brunette Machinery’s Chip Supply Systems can help provide a management advantage to the sawmill industry.
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Prince George Senior Breaks Record
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021
Prince George’s Tuomas Ukonmaanaho, 76, a BC Masters Athlete, participated in the Greyhounds Multi Event at Bear Creek Park Athletics Centre in Surrey, BC on August 7th and 8th, 2021.
In this year’s competition, Ukonmaanaho broke the record for the men’s BC decathlon in the 75-79 year-old category by more than 2,000 points and the Canadian record by more than 200 points.
Ukon Tom, as he is known, worked as a machinist for Brunette Machinery in our Prince George facility for 39 years. He then continued to work for a few years on contract doing our outside line boring jobs.
Congratulations, Tuomas! Keep on smashing those records! We are rooting for you!
Read an article about Ukon Tom’s accomplishments in track & field published in the Prince George Citizen newspaper.
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Brunette Machinery Congratulates Northern Pellet Limited Partnership
Friday, May 14th, 2021
Brunette Machinery congratulates Northern Pellet Limited Partnership for receiving the Groundbreaker of the Year Award at the 2021 International Biomass Conference & Expo.
We applaud the entire Northern Pellet team for their outstanding award and offer our best wishes for their continued success. Northern Pellet’s well-deserved win recognizes their significant contribution to the bioenergy industry.
We also congratulate the Partnership on the completion and start-up of their pellet production facility in High Level, Alberta. Operations commenced in December 2020 and full-run production is expected this year. This facility is a joint project between Pinnacle Renewable Energy and Tolko Industries with a projected run-rate capacity of 200,000 metric tons per year.
We are proud to have supplied the Brunette BioSizer® for this exciting project. The Brunette BioSizer grinds oversized “bush-grind”, hog fuel, trim blocks, wood chips, and more into a fine uniform product size ideal for the biomass industry. The BioSizer performs the first step in the pelletizing process — the primary size reduction of wood fiber for the manufacture of high-quality wood pellets.
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Job Hunting?
Friday, March 26th, 2021
Do you know how to operate one of these? Then read on…
We have a full time position available immediately for a shipper/receiver to join our busy team.
Our ideal candidate has excellent time management skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, self-disciplined environment. Along with two years of shipping/receiving experience, the selected candidate will be a highly motivated team player who shows initiative and can work with minimal supervision. Bonus points if you have overhead crane experience!
We offer a competitive salary, a benefits package and a supportive workplace where you will be a valued member of the Brunette team.
Interested? Check out the complete job description.
To learn more about our company, including our corporate values, please click here. Check out all our current employment opportunities.
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New team member announced at Brunette Machinery
Thursday, March 4th, 2021
Brunette Machinery is pleased to announce and welcome our new team member, Tim Saunders, specializing in Business Development. Previously affiliated with companies such as Canfor and Conifex, Tim is now an integral member of our sales team, whose expertise will further support our customers.
Tim combines his 25 years of business experience with a passion for the technological growth of the forest industry. His electrical and automation background, as well as his extensive work in multiple areas of plant management, make a welcome addition to our already resourceful group.
The majority of Tim’s career has revolved around the forest industry where he developed an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the sector. His experience in this field encompassed many roles, such as: control system design, machine/plant commissioning, troubleshooting, sawmilling flow and strategies. The scope of his work ranged from project development including budget creation, risk analysis, managing stakeholder relationships through to project execution and completion. Asked to describe what he does, Tim’s response is “Combining the identification of productivity opportunities with innovative control solutions for optimum performance.”
Before he embarked upon his career in the industry, Tim graduated from the University College of the Cariboo as a Computer Automated Systems Technician in 2000. He also studied to be a Journeyman Electrician at SAIT in Alberta and attained his Journeyman status in 2004.
Tim and his wife, Jenn operate a 600+ acre farm 30 minutes west of Prince George and a burgeoning direct meat marketing business. They have 55 head of cattle, a dozen or so pigs and a flock of chickens. When they are not out in the field with the cows or in their 20’x60’ greenhouse, you can find them outdoors quadding or boating with their two young sons.
Welcome to Team Brunette, Tim!
If you would like to know more about Tim, visit his LinkedIn profile and reach out to discuss your next equipment purchase.
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