Mill Programs
North American Products for Global Markets
NFP’s Total Product of the Run™ program (TPR) starts with an in-depth review of your mill configuration, fiber source and transportation infrastructure.
Our team will:
Analyze your Current Product Mix
- Species and quality of fibre
- North American ALS/CLS and export products currently produced
- Grades, sizes, lengths available
- Other product qualities (KD or green, packaged by length, paper-wrapped, etc.)
Analyze your Mill Configuration
- Mill design and existing manufacturing equipment (sawmill, planer, trim saws, sorting bins, resaws, dry-kilns, etc.)
- Ability to utilize existing equipment to produce export sizes and lengths
- Volume per shift, minimum volume per production run
- Log bucking
- Anti-stain treatment, kiln-dry/heat treat, paper-wrapping, export packaging
- Flexibility to convert to export program
- Distance to ports, rail access, cost and availability of trucks to container transloads and port terminals
- Analyze feasibility and cost of retrofitting mill to produce export sizes (equipment, labour, etc.)
Assess the Fit of your Current Product Line to Export Markets
- Price levels of export products compared to current product mix (net return to fibre)
- Ability to pull export products from existing product line
- Ability to run a dedicated export cut
Develop a Total Product of the Run™ Solution
- Design a feasible and simplified export program that encompasses all aspect of production, including log bucking, sawmilling, kiln-drying, planing, trimming and product merchandising
- Move all sizes, lengths, grades from export run to achieve a higher overall mill net return than existing product line
- Market and promote entire “run” into international markets
- Create and develop the mill’s reputation as a niche supplier of high-quality export products
- Extract the “maximum” net value of fiber from each run of logs