1st Issue of Nylenotes

August 13, 2011, 7:00 am

Nylenotes

Brewer, August 31, 2011 – - This is the first edition of Nyle Notes and is intended to be a quarterly newsletter. We hope to make it interesting, talking about what we see in the industry, our own news. We will also include some pointers on drying questions, much more than just a sales piece. Starting 2010, after 33 years of building drying equipment, Nyle’s assets were sold to a group headed by Ton Mathissen. Ton is deeply involved in the management of the company and is pursuing growth in a focused way. This was not an acquisition by a bigger company but rather a new owner/manager. I agreed to stay on to provide necessary continuity and because I think it will be a fun challenge to help the company grow as Ton envisions. For starters, we have moved to a new facility, much larger and better equipped and added new people. Ton is in his 40’s, a native of the Netherlands and a product of Harvard Business School. He’ll be a part of the industry for years to come.

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Market Headlines

September 14, 2011, 9:00 pm

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From our perspective as a manufacturer of Lumber Drying Equipment the first half of this year was better than 2010. We saw an increase in demand of about 30%, but the market is still far down from the days before 2008. Having been at this for 30+ years, we believe that the market is still less than 50% of “normal” conditions. Most of the drying equipment installed these days is to replace units that have been run and fixed up for as long as possible, very little is for expansion. Demand is still fragile. As we saw in July, as soon as economic uncertainty comes back, equipment purchases are postponed. Still as August progressed, inquiries quickly came back. We expect that the market will continue a slow recovery for the rest of the year.

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Storage Humidity Control

September 22, 2011, 8:43 am

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Nyle Humidity Control Systems are installed on 80,000 sq. ft. flooring warehouse and finishing department.

In a tight market, differentiation through quality is paramount and the manufacturing and storage of wood products must be kept at relatively constant humidity to assure dimensional stability. Nyle designs custom systems to humidify and dehumidify plant areas to control humidity. As better insulated and tighter buildings are erected, accurate control of humidity becomes possible and Nyle has solutions for many applications. The photo on the previous page shows an installation at an 80,000 sq.ft. hardwood flooring warehouse. Nyle has also designed humidity control systems for applications in food (constant humidity to assure the exact quantity of each component was used), and many other industrial processes.

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Wynndel Box And Lumber Installs Two 100,000 BF Nyle Dry Kiln Systems

October 25, 2011, 6:32 am

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Earlier this year, Nyle supplied two 100,000 BF complete, turn-key dry kiln systems to Wynndel Box and Lumber in Wynndel BC, Canada. The kilns dry high grade softwoods. Wynndel is one of North America’s leading manufacturers of quality mouldings and trim.

Construction of New Kilns for Wyndell Box and Lumber, BC Canada.

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Hartzell Hardwoods installs four Nyle Dehumidification Lumber Drying Systems

October 25, 2011, 6:34 am

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The control room showing a Nyle HT54 lumber drying system and a high pressure water conditioning system.
In July, 2011, four new Nyle dehumidification lumber drying systems were installed at Hartzell in Piqua, Ohio. These were the first dehumidification systems at the facility, which is one of the leading hardwood lumber producers in the USA. Nyle worked together with SII on the project which is a showplace installation with Nyle computer control systems and SII’s chambers, fan and vent systems. This allows the owners to achieve the ease of dehumidification drying, low operating costs and convenience.

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Interest Picks Up In Heat Treating Pallets And Crate Wood

October 25, 2011, 6:40 am

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As Canada plans to end the exemption from heat treating pallets and crate wood crossing from the USA, interest is again rising in heat treaters. After many chose to base their first purchase on price, now more consideration is being given to efficiency, longevity, speed of loading, quality of construction and in some cases mobility. These have been Nyle features right along and owners appreciate that and look to Nyle for the latest designs.

Nyle Heat Treating System.

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Drying Tips from Nyle

October 25, 2011, 6:42 am

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Drying Tip 1: Pick up a lighted magnifying glass at Radio Shack and mark the ends of any checks with a pencil and then check them often to be sure they are not opening and not closing until the very end of drying.

Drying tip 2: When drying air dried material that has any surface or end check, start out with the EMC equal to the surface EMC and not what a schedule may suggest.

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Gladstone’s Blueberry Dryer

February 7, 2012, 5:31 am

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Gladstone’s Under the Sun Invests in New Dryer – 01/25/12 – Written by Cyndi Wood – http://fenceviewer.com

HANCOCK — Gladstone’s Under the Sun has invested in new equipment that will allow the blueberry processor to dry nearly nine times more berries while slashing energy use. The fruit dryer, custom-built by Nyle Systems of Brewer, arrived at the Hancock plant in mid-December. “It will put us at a point where we can manufacture enough product to be considered a commercial plant,” said Rosemary Gladstone, who owns the business with her husband, Craig. Gladstone’s Under the Sun sells two specialty food product lines: Maine Munchies and The Caviar of Maine. Maine Munchies is a line of fruit and nut mixes. The Caviar of Maine products include dry and moist wild blueberries, spreads, pie fillings and syrups. Rosemary said the company was one of the first to put dried blueberries in a bag and market them as a snack. “The wild blueberry itself has hit such an incredible demand because of the health benefits,” she said. The company struggled to meet demand with its old drying equipment, an inefficient tray dryer from a New Jersey vitamin factory. It took two workers to spread blueberries over 100 trays in the dryer and two workers to unload the trays. The drying process took about 18 hours. The new dryer can be operated by just one worker, uses 40 percent less power and increases output significantly. Drying time is about 90 minutes. “Our throughput is about 900 percent over what it was before,” said Craig Gladstone. “No other dryers are really using this type of technology at this point,” he added. The new dryer could increase production from about 1,500 pounds of berries a month to about 15,000. “By the end of the year I can definitely see us doing that,” Rosemary said.

For more community news, pick up a copy of The Ellsworth American.

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