Arizona Forest
Restoration Products Inc.
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Manufacturing Process
Arizona Forest Restoration Products production equipment is geared toward the use of small diameter trees harvested during ecological thinning operations, typically from 5" to 12" dbh. Specific equipment choices have been made (such as the types of debarkers and stranders that clean the logs then chip them into stands), that in effect preclude the use of large diameter trees better used in high-value applications such as decorative beams, high quality furniture, or "vigas" and "latillas".
In consequence, Arizona Forest Restoration Products procurement and production process will be focused on filling the missing link of small diameter utilization in the economic chain that goes from the highest value grand old timber best used in decorative beams, to the lowest value biomass best used in cogeneration of electricity.
Logging Arizona Forest Restoration Products will hold the Stewardship contracts from the USDA Forest Service and will subcontract the logging to professional logging companies who meets the standards identified in the American Loggers Council MasterLogger™ or Arizona ProLogger programs.
Shipping Arizona Forest Restoration Products will subcontract the trucking of the logs to the manufacturing facility to professional shipping companies. The logs will be received at the plant "tree length".
Receiving The logs will be weighted and they will be off loaded with a yard portal crane which will consist of two 15 ton grapple cranes.
Debarking The logs will then be placed into a log charger and fed directly into a drum debarker system.
After being debarked the logs will be batched into a smart ring strander. There will be two debarking and stranding lines.
 Wet screening and wet bin storage All strands of all size and length will be conveyed to a wet screening system. The wet screened fines and strands will them be conveyed to the designated wet bin storage systems.
 First stage Resination Resin & wax will be blended with the wet screened fines and strands.
 Drying The resinated wet screened fines will then enter into the dryers.
Dry bin storage The furnish will then be conveyed to dry storage bins.
Weighing, second stage resination, and blending The furnish will be weighted on a weight belt system that will feed it into the blender system that will complete the wax/resin impregnation process.
 Metering & forming The blended furnish will then be conveyed to the metering bins of the forming line and the furnish will be oriented into a mat on a belt line that feeds into the continuous press system.
 Pressing The mat will then go through the continuous press and be pressed into a continuous board.
 Cross sawing & finishing line Once the pressed mat comes off the press outfeed it will be cross sawed into a pre-set manufacturing mode, then the boards will finally enter the finishing line where they will be cut to exact dimensions.
Shipping Finally, the boards will be shipped by truck or by rail according to their destination.
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