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BMC-Prince George News
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
Brunette Machinery Prince George Division has had a busy and productive year. As 2020 draws to a close, we would like to share some highlights from their Year in Review newsletter.
Rick DeGans Retires after 46 Years!
Rick began his career at Brunette as a machinist in April, 1974. One of Brunette’s longest serving staff members, Rick has been a terrific asset to our team for 46 years.
On July 24, 2020, Brunette’s past and present employees gathered in the shop yard for a barbeque to celebrate his retirement.
We wish Rick all the best in his new adventures and thank him for his many years of dedicated service.
Has it Been Five Years Already?
Chad, our chargehand and Bryce, our most senior machinist, joined the Brunette team in 2015. On November 24, we celebrated their 5-year anniversary with a burger bar from Red Robin! A delicious way to commemorate a milestone!
Prince George Scope of Work
With 7 lathes, 4 boring mills and 3 milling machines in our shop, our experts can carry out a wide range of custom fabrication, rebuilding and repair jobs to suit your needs.
Brunette Machinery’s extensive experience in manufacturing guarantees our customers an unsurpassed level of quality and leading edge technology.
Our shop features include:
• Large capacity horizontal & vertical boring mills
• Portable line boring
• Custom fabrications
• Quick turn-around
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There’s Still Time!
Friday, November 20th, 2020
Our Parts & Service Department’s Fall Promo is on until Monday, November 30, 2020! Take advantage of our Promo Pricing on Tool Cylinder Clevis Pins for Kodiak Debarkers – Models: 622, 627, 636. For details see the Promo Flyer [opens a pdf] and call our Parts & Service Department to order yours!
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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.
Tags: Biomass Industry, Brunette BioSizer, Brunette Machinery, Forestry Equipment, High-Speed Wood Grinder, Wood Pellet Industry
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BMC Prince George’s A-Team — Building Solutions
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
When wood-processing equipment breaks down, mills grind to a halt. The result? Lost revenue, lost production, and lost hours. In the lumber industry, machinery repairs must be done quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
Luckily for one of our northern customers, our Prince George machine shop’s A-Team understands that speed and efficiency are essential to keeping production lines running. When a mill crash suspended operations, our customer sent their rotor to our shop for inspection. The A-Team suited up (PPE, including safety glasses and ear protection) and went to work! After careful review, the team replaced a bearing and built a new shaft, restoring the rotor to near-new condition and met all the company’s expectations. A win-win for the customer and our Prince George team!
The Prince George A-Team: David, Chad and Paul
We at Brunette, live by our corporate values. Our team strives to deliver extraordinary service to our customers. We listen to their concerns, and we provide solutions that best answer those concerns. We follow through on our commitments, and we stand behind everything we do. We believe that our customers’ success is our success!
We are well known for our expertise in forestry equipment. Through our robust research and development program, we continually update and add to our extensive product line. Our knowledgeable and experienced sales team can help you modernize your facility. Check out our Equipment page for information. Our highly trained technicians and machine shop team can keep your site functioning at top production levels.
Contact us: Surrey H.O: 604.522.3977, Prince George Shop: 250.563.0596, Toll Free: 1.800.686.6679. or
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Brunette in the News!
Friday, September 11th, 2020
For more than 75 years, Brunette Machinery has been supplying high quality, premium equipment to the North American forest industry. We specialize in wood-processing and material handling systems, and provide custom engineered solutions to help customers get more from their mills.
See our SmartVIBE® Vibrating Conveyor write-up in the Dry End Production section of the August 2020 edition of Wood Bioenergy magazine. There is also a short piece about Kirk Forbes exciting news on page 30 of the issue. Our BioSizer® ad is on page 9 and can be viewed here.
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Introducing the Brunette SmartVIBE® 5826 Vibrating Conveyor
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
The Brunette SmartVIBE® is a unique and simple vibrating conveyor, designed for low cost maintenance and maximum up-time efficiencies. The patented design allows operators to change the conveyor speed by utilizing a Variable Speed Drive (VFD) to control the drive motor RPM which effects the conveyor stroke. An internal counterweight ensures optimal balance, even at different speeds. The SmartVIBE has no external balance beams and no coil springs. It features a springless vibratory mechanism which is fully balanced at each stroke.
This versatile conveyor can bring new efficiencies to many different industries and applications including biomass production and transportation; sawmill and plywood mills, OSB; urban recycling and processing; pellet manufacturing; food processing; agricultural; and mining.
The vibrating conveyor drive is designed to be inboard complete with a single electric motor.
An eccentric shaft, driven by a belt and a sheave complete with belt guard, is mounted in roller bearing assemblies and connected to the conveyor with custom elastomer elements that provide trouble free operation in summer and winter.
Parallel torsional shafts are mounted in a heavy duty housing, secured in place with B-Loks and connected to the rocker arm. The rocker arms provide a link between the counterbalance weight and the trough. The counterbalance weight is a unique design feature of the Brunette SmartVIBE. It can be converted to a secondary trough to increase material flow, or to carry fines when a screen is being used.
This vibrating conveyor can be custom built to suit your specific needs. The versatility of the Brunette SmartVIBE lies in the many options available for varied applications. The conveyor can be constructed in different widths and lengths, with size specific screening options, metal detector, or rare earth magnets.
Our newest model, the Brunette SmartVIBE 5826, is 58″ wide and comes with fines screen and metal trap. The configuration of this model ensures that you get the cleanest useable material flowing into your grinders or chippers to maximize your product yield, while protecting equipment downstream.
For more information about our SmartVIBE, check out our Equipment page or call our office at 604.522.3977 and speak to our knowledgeable sales team.
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Change in Ownership Statement
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
Brunette Machinery is delighted to announce that Kirk Forbes has successfully concluded a partner buyout to become the sole owner of the company, bringing Brunette back to its family business roots.
Brunette’s commitment to quality, performance and value will remain the same as the team continues to work together to build strong relationships and provide the best products and customer service available in the industry.
Read BMC’s Official Press Release:
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Have You Seen Our Latest Ad?
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
If you regularly read the Logging & Sawmill Journal you may have noticed our ad in the February 2020 issue. If you haven’t seen the new issue, you can read it online here. Check out page 11 for our ad that features three of our powerhouse machines, the Brunette Horizontal Chipper, the CBI Grizzly Mill and the Brunette Drum Chipper.
The Brunette Horizontal Chipper is designed to process small or large volumes of veneer, round-up, cores; spin-outs,and lily pads, all in one machine. Weighing in at 28,000 lbs, the Brunette Horizontal Chipper is built for the toughest applications.
The CBI Grizzly Mill Hog is known as the Heavyweight Champion of Wood Waste Grinders for good reason! It is designed to be the most rugged hog on the market and will handle almost any material you throw at it and keep on running.
The Brunette Drum Chipper is an industry leader in producing quality pulp chips from short material that is difficult to control. Features adjustable chip length for flexibility in product. The hydraulically-operated clam shell opening and quick release knife clamps allow for quick one-man knife changes.
Click the image for a larger view of the ad.
For more information about these machines and our full line of forestry products visit our Equipment page.
If you have questions contact us at or call our toll free number: 1.800.686.6679 for more information.
Need parts or service? Visit our Parts & Service page.
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What’s in the Forecast for 2020?
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
As softwoods industry companies are turning to automation and software to increase productivity, Kirk Forbes offered his insights into what may be in store for forestry product manufacturers this year. Read his thoughts in the online version of the Equipment Forecasts for 2020 section of the January/February issue of Softwood Forest Products Buyer.
Want to see our latest ad in this magazine? Find it here. Want to read the entire magazine? Click here.
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Georgia on My Mind — 2020 Wood BioEnergy / 2020 PELICE Conference & Expo
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
The 2020 Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo will be held March 10-11 , 2020 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. This show immediately precedes the Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE), which will be held at the same venue. Both events are supported by Wood Bioenergy and Panel World magazines, and the Georgia Research Institute.
This 6th biennial Conference & Expo will bring together top professionals from the industrial wood pellet, biomass power, biofuels and in-woods chipping sectors. The event will feature speakers from across the industry to discuss the worldwide emphasis on renewable energy production. This event will appeal to the wood-to-energy markets including industrial wood pellets, biomass power, biofuels, in-woods chipping and biomass procurement. Keynote speakers will focus on new projects and innovative technologies throughout this developing market.
The 2020 Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo
March 10-11, 2020
Omni Hotel at CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia
The 7th Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo will be held
Thursday-Friday, March 12-13, 2020, at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, immediately following the 2020 Wood Bioenergy Conference.
The biennial event’s last show, held in 2018, was supported by 94 equipment and technology exhibitors and saw more than 400 industry representatives in attendance.
The 2020 exhibition expects to see an audience of 500+ professionals from the leading wood products producers in the world and will spotlight keynote presentations from industry experts; technical sessions on quality control, air emissions and veneer manufacturing; and panel discussions on project implementation, women in manufacturing, mass timber production, and more.
Brunette Machinery will be there at Booth C303S for both shows — Please stop by and say hello! Our experts can answer any of your questions about our wood processing and material handling systems.
Panel & Engineered Lumber Int’l Conference & Expo
March 12-13, 2020
Omni Hotel at CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia
Tags: BioEnergy, Brunette Machinery, Lumber, PELICE 2020, Tradeshow
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