Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd.

Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd.

Sidney, BC

Company Overview

Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd are leading manufacturers of primary log processing equipment for sawmills, board mills and pulp mills. They have designed and built a complete range of mechanical ring debarkers, cut off saws for log merchandizing or bulk cutting, chippers for whole logs, short ends and trims, sawmill residuals, plywood veneer and composer trims, pedestal mounted log loaders and other log feeding equipment.

The Nicholson Series A5B and A7 debarkers are high speed machines offered in 5 ring sizes to process logs as small as 2' (5 cm) to 33' (84 cm)diameters at very high speeds. Over 600 of the Model A5B machines and 50 of the Model A7 have been built and installed.

Nicholson also offers the Series A1, A2 and A6 floating ring machines to operate at lower speeds at lower capital cost in the above range of sizes. This type of machine with larger ring sizes can also be used to debark larger diameter logs with the largest model being capable of processing up to 170 cm.

Nicholson's line of chippers includes a range of whole log and wastewood disc chippers, straight knife drum chippers, veneer chippers, rotodrum rechippers and short log rotodrum chippers in a wide range of sizes.

The Nicholson Full Flow chip screen features higher chip screening efficiency and ease of maintenance.

The Nicholson SuperSaw is a high speed lineal cut off saw designed to compliment automated log bucking systems using electronic scanning to optimize the value received from the logs.

Company Information

Physical Address

9896 Galaran Rd.
Sidney, BC V8L 3S6
CA

Mailing Address

P. O. Box 2128
Sidney, BC V8L 3S6
CA

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Nicholson Manufacturing Ltd.

Number of Employees: 225

Major Clients:

Weyerhaeuser Weldwood Millar Western Ainsworth Lumber Canadian Forest Products Tolko Forest Products Diashowa Canada Abitibi Consolidated Domtar Forest Products Louisiana Pacific Tembec Forest Industries Kruger Buchanan Northern Hardwood Norbord, Unit of Nexfor International Paper Co. Commonwealth Plywood Willamette Industries Simpson Timber

Plant Information:

122, 000

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Carl Wong

Title: Controller

Area of Responsibility: Finance/Accounting

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Michael Smothers

Title: Manufacturing Manager

Area of Responsibility: Manufacturing/Production/Operations

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Scott Howell

Title: Chief Executive Officer

Area of Responsibility: Management Executive

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Douglas Jeffrey

Title: Vice President

Area of Responsibility: Management Executive

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Products

  • Chip Screens

    Nicholson Chip Screens offer a full range of gyratory screens with single, double, tripple and double/single deck configurations with optional support stands, punched plate decks, ball decks, central greasing and various configurations of discharge chutes. SS decks and contact surfaces available.

    Nicholson screens offer greater screening efficiency, easier maintenance and screen access.

  • Chipper, Pulp Mill

    High performance, heavy duty whole log disc chippers in either horizontal or drop feed configurations. Disc sizes up to 160' (4064 mm) capable of chipping logs of 46' (1168 mm).

  • Chippers

    Nicholson offers a wide range of disc and drum chippers in various configurations to process wood fibre into pulp quality chips from whole logs, saw mill residuals, screened oversized chips and waste veneer.

    Machines are typically robust and reliable with many features to enhance performance with respect to product quality.

  • Debarkers, Mechanical Ring

    Mechanical Ring debarkers are very suitable for hard to debark species including frozen wood without thawing.

  • Debarkers, Sawmill
  • High Speed Lineal Cut Off Saw

    High Speed Cut Off Saw suitable for integrating in automated Bucking lines with electronic scanning and optimization.

NAICS Categories

Additional Information

NAICS:

333210

Quality Certification:

ISO 9002

FSC Codes:

3210-Sawmill and Planning Mill Machinery, 3220-Woodworking Machines

Export Experience:

Australia, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russian Federation, United States