Carmanah Design and Manufacturing Inc.
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia in 118,000 sq. Ft. of
manufacturing space comprising a machine shop, steel fabrication
and assembly shop.
Principal business is the manufacture of engineered equipment
for the forest products and pulp and paper industries. It is the
world's largest supplier of flakers - equipment which is used in
the production of particleboard, oriented strand board (OSB) and
other wood-based composites.
Focuses on new technology to meet customers' evolving needs and
market conditions well positions the company for strong future
growth.
Company Details
Company Information
Carole Newman
Title:
Communications and Marketing
Telephone:
(604) 299-3431
Fax:
(604) 299-4927
Products
Chippers
Flakers
Disc Block Flaker
The Disk Flakers have been designed to precisely cut wood into a
broad range of specific thickness, length and width. This makes
the flaker versatile in the preparation of flakes for structural
orented strand board (OSB) panels and for the particleboard
industry, using a broad range of grades and species of
roundwood.
Disc Block Flaker
Disc Block Flakers produce flakes or strands of uniform
thickness adjustable up to .060' (1.5mm). Logs are cut to a
nominal 34' (863mm) length and are fed with the grain parallel
to the disc. Flake length along the fibre is easily changed by
using different knife serrations or scoring knife location.
Flake width is determined by controlling geometry through the
flaking pocket.
The unique patented feature of the Long Log Flaker is based on
the cutting knives extending to the peripheral of the disc,
allowing the disc to advance through the batch of logs during
flaking.
The raw material, either in the form of random length round
wood, or by-product, is transported by a parallel infeed
conveyor into a cutting chamber. After entering the cutting
chamber, the wood is clamped and the flaker, which is carriage
mounted, extends and accurately flakes the wood within the
cutting chamber. It then automatically returns and the sequence
repeats itself. During each cycle, 37' (940mm)wood length is
cut. Target Industries
Ring Strander
With the increasing demand for engineered wood products
requiring long strands, we offer the 28/81 Strander. The
positive knife clamping design of the Strander combined with the
proven electronic feedworks software for carriage motion,
ensures exact control over strand thickness. As mills cannot
allow downtime for ring repair, are innovative thinking has led
to the patented design of the cutting ring removal system. This
unique system will allow the complete cutting ring to be removed
and reinstalled in an 8-hour shutdown period.
King Debarker
King Debarker
Debarks straight, crooked, knotty, dry or frozen logs Diameter
2' and up/length 24' and up Handles all of the above -
simultaneously
Over 140 units in operation
The debarker utilizes a combination of cylindrical rotors
complete with surface mounted debarking plates to easily remove
bark. Bark removal is achieved with a rocking, rolling impact of
the logs on the plates, which abrades the bark from the logs
with a minimal amount of damage or waste. The result is a
cleanly debarked log in excellent condition for chipping,
flaking and stranding.
The King debarker has a rotor on which specially shaped barking
plates are arranged to rock the loaded logs as the rotor turns.
The resultant abrasion during the rocking and shock as logs
strike the blade edges is repeated continually as the logs are
fed toward the barker outlet. The King debarker can be adjusted
according to species, size and whether the logs are dry or
frozen. Remote operator controls allow stepless rotor rotation
speeds and regulates the outlet gate to control the amount of
time the logs are in the barker to prevent over or under
debarking. Each log is subjected to a rocking, rolling and
overall rotation action for the most effective and uniform
debarking.
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