BID Group has received an order from the Hunt Forest Products and Tolko Joint Venture Partnership, to deliver a greenfield sawmill complex project in Louisiana. Through its industry-leading wood processing technologies and integrated solutions offering, BID will manage, design, build, equip, install, and provide full start-up services for the project.
“We are excited to partner with the BID team to expand our manufacturing capacity with a second state-of-the-art Turnkey Lumber facility in the U.S. South. This project will employ the best complement of modern technologies to meet our growing customer demand for the highest quality products. Working with an industry leader like BID provides the confidence that this project will be done right and delivered on time,” said James D. Hunt, Co-Owner of Hunt Forest Products.
The new operation will incorporate the full spectrum of BID’s best-in-class wood processing technologies including equipment, software, automation systems, Artificial Intelligence-enabled optimization, and plant-wide Industry 4.0 solution, Oper8™.
BID’s Integrated Solutions Team will provide the design, engineering, planning, fabrication, and installation services for this Turnkey project. The sustainment of the plant’s operational life cycle excellence will be supported by BID’s Reliability program which will provide comprehensive service, parts, consumables, and upgrades.
Work on site will begin in the 3Q 2022 and commissioning of the sawmill is scheduled for the 2Q 2023.
BID Group is one of the largest integrated suppliers to the wood processing industry, and the North American leader in the field.
