Panels & Lumber
Initial Design to Project Completion
From initial design to project completion, HGA offers a variety of services to fulfill your lumber needs. Our project experience runs deep within the lumber industry. Our solid, composite, and engineering lumber services combined with our consulting and management teams can provide wood product solutions for any challenge. There are many facets of engineering applications common to the various segments that make up the wood products business. Including panels and lumber, HGA has a wide range of expertise and vast experience in other industries.
Plywood
HGA’s staff includes numerous personnel with decades of experience in the plywood products industry. Our people have served as staff engineers, maintenance technicians, maintenance managers, and plant managers in the industry.
Project Examples
- Log yard expansions
- Saws & log merchandising
- High-speed lathe projects
- Green veneer handling systems
- Green & dry veneer stacker installations
- Press loader & unloader upgrades
- Waste processing systems
- Programmable logic controller (PLC) installation & troubleshooting
- WESP/RTO installations
- Dryer outlet duct redesign
Non-Structural Panels
HGA has a background in the non-structural panels industry, including particleboard, MDF, and specialty hardboard fiber products. Our experience includes services as the prime project engineer, project management, engineering, detailed design, and construction management.
Project Examples:
- Refinery upgrades
- Miscellaneous milling & drying projects
- Forming line installations
- Pneumatic system design
- Waste-energy pneumatics
- Boiler & heat energy projects
- Dry storage & blending systems
- Board cooler design
Material/Bulk Solids Handling
HGA has specific experience in the design of mechanical and pneumatic material handling systems for multiple industries moving various products. We use the most current conveyor and pneumatic conveying system design software for system solutions.
Project Examples:
- Material conveying & dust collection
- Studies of existing systems
- Equipment & system upgrades
- Grassroots & plant expansion installations
- Proprietary designs
- Research & development
- Patented equipment designs
Treating
A leader in wood treating applications, we understand the industry and use our knowledge to supply our clients with a comprehensive portfolio of services for treating facilities. Though the supply of wood is plentiful, it’s not unlimited. We help our clients extend the life of wood products in industrial applications.
Project Examples:
- Construction oversight
- Design & production
- Feasibility studies
- Site selection & preparation
- Electrical power & control design
- All permitting