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EXPO Center - Portland, OR
September 25-27, 2024
Wellons – Booth 353
Salem Equipment – Booth 558

NEWS

New President & CEO
2024

Wellons is pleased to announce affective May 1st 2024, Pat Thornton, the current President of Wellons Canada, will assume the role of President / CEO of the Wellons Group. Pat will be replacing Martin Nye, the majority shareholder, whom has been the President / CEO for more than 30 years.

For over 50 years, Wellons has been a leader in providing biomass-fired energy systems, lumber dry kilns, and related products and services to the forest products and industrial power industries. We provide our customers with complete services in design, engineering, and manufacturing, as well as installation services and technical assistance. Martin has built up a successful and financially sound, customer focus business and will remain helping in a reduced capacity providing support to Pat where needed through this transition.

Neiman Sawmills Montrose Facility in Colorado
2023

Wellons is proud to have partnered with long time customer Neiman Sawmills at their Montrose facility in Colorado.

Wellons provided a turn-key 50,000 PPH boiler coupled with a 1500 KW turbine generator, two (2) A-30-40 fuel storage bins, fuel delivery and handling equipment including the truck reclaimer and a state of the art electrostatic precipitator.

Please see more details in the article below:

Montrose Forest Products

Wellons Canada Acquires Sechoir MEC
2023

We are excited to announce that Wellons Canada has acquired Séchoir MEC.

This acquisition provides the opportunity to become the foremost expert and supplier of lumber drying kilns in North America. By combining our strengths and resources, we aim to create a stronger, more innovative and competitive presence in the marketplace.

MEC DRY KILN, located in Victoriaville, QC, offers 31 years of drying expertise to its customers in Eastern Canada and in Maine, with customers from all areas of the wood industry.

With over 300 installations, MEC Dry Kiln is an industry leader in design, manufacture, installation and repair of wood drying equipment in Eastern Canada. The acquisition solidifies Wellons position as an industry leader providing track and package batch kilns with additional manufacturing capacity in Eastern Canada.

For more information on what they do, please check out their website at : www.sechoirmec.com/en/

Wellons Australasian Office
2020

Wellons is pleased to announce the addition of Keith Robertson to the Wellons team. Keith will serve as our Director of International Business Development, based in Te Horo, New Zealand.

Keith brings extensive experience in the forest products and lumber drying industries, especially with continuous drying systems, and will be focusing on both North American and Australasian markets.

Keith’s experience includes North America, Australia, Thailand and China and is internationally recognized in the industry for his knowledge of continuous drying. Keith’s experience includes 28 years with Windsor Engineering in New Zealand where he last served as Business Manager in the Timber Sector.

Keith’s technical and sales expertise focuses on high efficiency and ultra-high temperature batch lumber dry kilns, continuous lumber drying systems, lumber and log conditioning systems, and moisture measuring systems.

Keith can be contacted at: Keith.Robertson@wellons.com

Our Southeastern USA presence is growing!
2020

Our Atlanta, Georgia office, which specializes in utility and industrial biomass power boilers, construction, maintenance and repair, has doubled in office space along with the addition of several key people.

Paul Andrychuk has joined the Wellons team as our Corporate Engineering Director for all divisions of Wellons. Paul comes to Wellons with an extensive background in the utility and industrial boiler industry spending many years at the former Foster-Wheeler and also with ABB/Combustion- Engineering. Paul’s engineering experience includes chemical recovery boilers, pulverized coal boilers, spreader-stoker boilers, fluidized bed boilers and package boilers. Paul’s experience spans the globe as Engineering Director in Shanghai, China for Foster-Wheeler and for Agon-Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand.

Also, joining the Wellons Power Group Team is Paul Kelso, Senior Power Engineer. Paul brings extensive business development, sales engineering, agri-fuel fired power boiler experience, working many years with Foster Wheeler and Homeland Renewable Energy/Fibrowatt. Paul has extensive and unique experience in the design of poultry litter power boilers.

These individuals, added to our existing power staff, provide Wellons with the most technical engineering talent in this industry segment.

Wood Bioenergy Magazine
May 2014

Montana’s F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Celebrates Woody Biomass Co-Gen Plant

"The plant utilizes wood waste to heat the company’s mill, dry its wood and produce enough electricity for about 2,500 homes."
Online Article
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Timber West Magazine
December 2013

Montana Mill Provides Real Case Study

"We shopped around during our due-diligence and chose Wellons because they offered a completely turn-key operation, coupled with a long history in working with the forest products industry."

Chuck Roady
Vice President and General Manager, F.H Stoltze Land and Lumber Company

Online Article
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RECENT PROJECTS

Montrose Forest Products Montrose, CO

50,000 PPH Boiler
1200 KW electrical power system
Two (2) A-30-40 fuel storage bins with fuel handling
One (1) DT x 104 lumber dry kiln
Installation Services Provided

Zip-O-Log Mills Goshen, OR

(1) Double Track steam heated x 68’ lumber dry kiln
(2) Single Track steam heated x 68’ lumber dry kilns
Installation Services Provided

Koppers, Inc Leesville, NC

(1) Double Track steam heated x 130’ pole dry kiln
Installation Services Provided

Koppers, Inc Leland, NC

(2) Double Track steam heated x 130’ pole dry kilns
Installation Services Provided

Shuqualak Lumber Shuqualak, MS

One (1) CCF 180’ Steam Heated Continuous Drying System (CDS)
Trumark-Evo wireless moisture metering system

Sierra Pacific Industries Burney, CA

(2) Double Track steam heated x 120’ lumber dry kiln
All Aluminum Structure
Installation Services Provided

Chips, Inc Troy, VA

(1) Double Track steam heated x 54’ lumber dry kiln

West Fraser Henderson, TX

(2) CCF 300’ thermal oil heated Continuous Drying Systems (CDS)
90 MM Btu/Hr Thermal Oil heating system
Installation Services provided

West Fraser McDavid, FL

(2) CPF 300’ thermal oil heated Continuous Drying Systems (CDS)
90 MM Btu/Hr Thermal Oil heating system
Installation Services provided

Eastern Energy Renewables Wilson, NC

85,000 PPH Poultry-Litter fired boiler and CHP system
Emission controls (SNCR, DSI, Baghouse)
3 MWe backpressure Steam Turbine Generator
Installation Services provided

Eastern Energy Renewables La Grange, NC

85,000 PPH Poultry-Litter fired boiler and CHP system
Emission controls (SNCR, DSI, Baghouse)
3 MWe backpressure Steam Turbine Generator
Installation Services provided

West Fraser Dudley, GA

(2) CCF 300’ thermal oil heated lumber dry kilns
90 MM Btu/Hr Thermal Oil heating system
Installation services provided

Sierra Pacific Industries Aberdeen, WA

(4) Double Track steam heated x 120 foot Lumber Dry Kilns
All aluminum structure
Installation services provided

Neiman Sawmills Hulett, WY

Double field ESP
Technical Direction

Pallet One Selma, AL

(1) Double Track natural gas direct-fired 68 foot Lumber Dry Kiln
Installation services provided

Dempsey Lumber Company Rowesville, SC

(1) Double Track natural gas direct-fired 84 foot Lumber Dry Kiln
Installation services provided

South Coast Lumber Brookings, OR

(1) Double Track steam heated 104 foot Lumber Dry Kiln
CMZ remodel of (1) double track 104 foot Lumber Dry Kiln
20,000 PPH boiler
Installation services provided

Pfizer Rocky Mount, NC

120,000 PPH steam system
Installation services provided

United States Sugar Corporation Clewiston, FL

500,000PPH Bagasse-fired boiler system
Electrostatic Precipitator
Installation services provided

Bell Lumber & Pole Co. Broken Bow, OK

Double track by 104-ft natural gas-fired lumber dry kiln
Installation services provided

Biewer Lumber Co. Prentice, WI

Double track by 68-ft CMZ lumber dry kiln
True Capacitance Moisture Meter System
Installation services provided

Canfor Scotch Gulf Lumber Co. Fulton, AL

Replacement housing & heating system for Single Track x 84-ft lumber dry kin
Installation services provided

Chips,Inc. Troy, VA

Fan system & heating system upgrades to three single track lumber dry kilns

Coastal Forest Products Chapman, AL

Model A-30-40 wood fuel storage bin
Installation services provided

Collums Lumber Products LLC. Allendale, SC

Double track by 94-foot NG Direct-Fired Lumber Dry Kiln
Installation services provided

Dalhousie Agricultural Campus Nova Scotia, Canada

Electrostatic precipitator

Eagle Valley Clean Energy Gypsum, CO

100,000PPH wood fired boiler system
10,000KW Power generation system
Fuel storage & handling
Installation services provided

Energoremonts Riga, Latvia

Partiall supply of 25MT wood fired boiler system
Installation technical assistance provided

F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co. Columbia Falls, MT
SEE PHOTOS

40,000PPH Wood-Fired Boiler System
2,500KW Power Generation System
Two A-30-40 Fuel Storage Bins
Installation Services Provided

Georgia Pacific Wood Products Pineland, Texas

Lumber dry kiln replacement housing
Installation services provided

GUSC Energy Inc. Rome, NY
SEE PHOTOS

40,000PPH Wood-Fired Boiler System
Two A-30-40 Fuel Storage Bins
Installation Services Provided

Hampton Lumber Mills, Inc. Tillamook, OR

Fuel delivery conveyor system upgrade

Hampton Lumber Mills, Inc. Tillamook, OR

Double track by 104-ft CMZ lumber dry kiln
Installation Services Provided

Hampton Lumber Mills, Inc. Warrenton, OR

Double track by 110-ft CMZ lumber dry kiln
Installation Services Provided

House of Raeford/Wellons Energy Partners Rose Hill, NC
SEE PHOTOS

600HP wood-fired boiler
Backpressure turbine-generator
Fuel storage & handling
Installation Services Provided

Humboldt Redwood Co. Scotia, CA

Two Double Track by 120-ft CMZ lumber dry kilns
True Capacitance Moisture Meter System
Installation services provided

Idaho Forest Group Lewiston, ID

Two double track by 124-ft CMZ lumber dry kilns
True Capacitance Moisture Meter System
Installation services provided

Lakeland Mills Prince George, BC Canada

Electrostatic precipitator

Manning Diversified Forest Products Manning, AL

60MM Btu/hr thermal fluid heating system

Miller-Coors / Wellons Energy Partners
SEE PHOTOS

50,000 PPH Wood-Fired Boiler System
500 KW Power Generation System
Fuel Storage & Handling
Installation Services Provided

Neiman Sawmill Inc. Hulett, WY

Double track by 68-ft CMZ lumber dry kiln

Pembroke MDF. Pembroke, Ont. Canada

40 MMBtu radiant-convective thermal fluid heater

Perdue Farms/Wellons Energy Partners. Lewiston, NC

Three 600HP wood fired boilers
Backpressure turbine-generator
Fuel storage & handling
Installation Services Provided

Pfizer, Inc. Sanford, NC
SEE PHOTOS

600HP Wood-Fired Boiler
Backpressure turbine-generator
Fuel Storage & Handling
Installation Services Provided

Shuqualak Lumber Shuqualak, MS

Electrostatic precipitator

Sierra Pacific Industries Shelton, WA

Equipment for ten 120-ft Double Track CMZ kilns

South Coast Lumber Brookings, OR

Double track by 104-ft CMZ lumber dry kiln
True Capacitance Moisture Meter System
Installation Services Provided

Svetlogorsk Integrated Pulp Svetlogorsk, Belarus

25MT/hr wood fired boiler system
Electrostatic precipitator
Installation technical assistance provided

West Fraser Joyce, LA

Electrostatic precipitator

West Fraser-Manning Division Manning, AL

Electrostatic precipitator

Weyerhaeuser Corp. Dodson, LA

Lumber dry kiln heating system upgrade

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NEWS

Montana’s F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Celebrates Woody Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Montana Mill Provides Real Case Study

RECENT PROJECTS

BIOMASS FIRED ENERGY SYSTEMS & LUMBER DRY KILNS

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