Kadant equipment sales include wood recycling aspects

Westford, Massachusetts-based Kadant Inc. says it has received orders with a combined value of $18 million from three lumber producers in North America and Europe this month.

The equipment and technologies to be supplied will be used to debark, strand, chip and batch feed whole logs and scrap wood or lumber to produce oriented strand board (OSB) and dimensional lumber.

“We are pleased to have been selected as the preferred supplier to provide the wood processing systems for these significant projects, which reinforces our leading position in debarking, stranding and chipping equipment used in OSB and lumber production,” says Jeffrey L. Powell, president and CEO of Kadant.

The capital equipment orders are expected to ship between the end of 2025 and the third quarter of 2026, says the firm.

Especially in states or countries where wood recycling or landfill diversion incentives or disincentives are in place, scrap wood increasingly has been deployed in the manufacturing of building products such as OSB or medium-density fiberboard (MDF).

“In addition to the high-performance processing equipment, these orders include our embedded smart technology, optimizing productivity across the entire system,” says Powell of the new orders.

Kadant describes itself as a global supplier of technologies and engineered systems “that drive sustainable industrial processing.” In addition to wood processing equipment, the firm makes equipment for paper mills and offers the Balemaster and Kadant Paal line of recovered paper balers.