- Japanese style hi-grade sawmill
- Headrig plus two pony breakdown rigs
- Flexible sawing styles: conventional North American, or quarter sawing for maximum vertical grain recovery
- Inside-out sawing -- sawyer sees the worst face before deciding next sawline
- Optimized log bucking on paved sawmill yard
- Capability to blend logs of various grades at mill infeed
- Variety of species -- yellow cedar, spruce, red cedar, Douglas-fir, hemlock, balsam
- Equipment operators with "hands-on, close-in" viewing
- Superb sawfiling, stellite tips, narrow kerf and optimum feed rates
- Customer access to key operators and lumber graders
- Timbers and cants to 12 meter lengths
- Full crew briefings each shift; focus on customer needs
- Special customer sorts and grades accommodated
- Specialized lumber and cant tallying and packaging
- Much higher $ value recovery
- Higher volume recovery
- Better separation of clear from merchantable lumber
- Higher percentage of targeted lumber lengths
- Much higher percentage of vertical grain
- Wider vertical grain and cant faces
- Improved quality of parallel grain along lumber lengths
- Better true vertical grain (more 90 versus 45 degrees)
- Smooth sawn lumber faces
- Accurate size control (less than 1mm variation)
- Non-standard lumber flitch sizes to meet customer specifications
- Ability to saw a variety of sizes and programs at the same time
- Smaller cuts for better market servicing and timing
- Customer grading for colour, mineral streak, compression wood
- Various clear lumber grades for world market niches
- No circular saw marks on lumber faces
- Less marked and damaged lumber (no unscramblers)
