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Quality Southern Hardwoods
ATI/Beirne: One of the Largest Hardwood Producers in the
World.
Located in a prime, Southern hardwood region and
equipped with modern mill machinery, ATI’s Beirne
facility is one of the largest producers of quality
hardwoods in the world.
Within reach of the fertile bottomlands of the Little
Missouri, Ouachita (“Wa-she-taw”)
and Saline rivers – an area with excellent drainage that
regularly produces some of the finest oak and ash in the
country – ATI/Beirne turns out over 40 million board
feet of top quality hardwood lumber each year.
Quality at Every Step
Each step of ATI/Beirne’s production process is aimed at
achieving the highest quality hardwood lumber from grade
logs.
Since the highest grade logs come from the surrounding
river bottoms, which can only be logged during late
summer and fall, the mill regularly stores over 10
million feet of hardwood logs on its concrete log yard.
ATI also operates satellite log storage facilities in
Winnfield, Louisiana, Hillester, Texas and Rockport, Arkansas.
With this huge storage capability, ATI/Beirne has a record of
dependibility for year-round production of quality
hardwood products few can match.
From the log yard, wood is brought into ATI/Beirne’s
modern mill complex. The sawmill consists of a
computerized headrig and a quad band which is fed by a
newly installed, optimized and computerized maxi-mill.
This design positions each log to ensure maximum
utilization of fiber before feeding the center cant to a
computer-optimized thin-kerf gang saw. This permits
exceptional flexibility and high production volumes.
After separation by grade and species, the high quality
oaks are placed into a 1.75 million board foot pre-dryer.
The wood is protected and pre-dried to ensure
consistent, bright, even drying prior to being loaded
into one of twelve modern dry kilns.
Recently, ATI/Fordyce, a satellite concentration and
drying facility, added a 500 thousand board foot pre-dryer
and three modern dry kilns to Beirne’s capacity.
A Wide Varity of Hardwood Products
In addition to producing kiln-dried, high quality oak
and ash lumber, utilized primarily in the moulding,
cabinet and furniture industries, ATI provides custom
surfacing and a wide variety of other hardwood
products. ATI/Beirne regularly produces lumber for oak
flooring, frame stock, pallet material, gum and other
miscellaneous hardwoods, and has the capability of
producing large volumes of cross-ties and timbers of
various sizes. While much of the hardwood produced at
Beirne is 4/4 lumber, a substantial volume of 5/4 is
also produced, and the mill can cut special products on
demand.
Faster and Better Service
Because of ATI/Beirne’s flexibility and its large pre-dryer,
a customer’s special order can go from rough log
to kiln-dried and surfaced product in less than 45 days
– regardless of the time of year!
With such flexibility and high production volumes,
ATI/Beirne has become one of the world’s largest
suppliers of quality hardwood lumber.
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