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Dodge Logging, Inc.
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Biomass utilization
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Oregon
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Background
Dodge Logging , Inc. owns and operates three mechanized logging operations; a stationary whole-log-ship and barge reload facility in Boardman, Oregon (Boardman Chip Company, Inc.); and a small-random-length dimension sawmill in Pendleton, Oregon (Blue Mountain Lumber Products, LLC). The Boardman Chip Company is located near the Blue Mountains of northeast and central Oregon, where catastrophic wildfires are a common occurrence. National Forests in Dodge Logging�s area of operation include the Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman, Mt. Hood, Ochoco, and Deschutes.
Facility upgrade and expansion
In 2005, Dodge Logging was awarded a grant for $250,000 from the USDA Forest Service National Woody Biomass Utilization Grant Program to upgrade and expand the small-diameter log processing capacity at their Boardman Chip Company. Anticipated results include increased speed and automation to sort, merchandize, and process logs through a single-pass saw; improved capacity of the twin-band saw at the Blue Mountain plant to handle oversized logs from the Boardman plant; upgraded material handling capacity at the Blue Mountain mill; and conversion of an outdated inventory and accounting system to a software package that will track and schedule materials from log to lumber, chips, and residuals.
The expansion will give the company the ability to economically process logs less than 7-1/2 inches in diameter and to more efficiently recover log segments that might produce studs or lumber. This upgrade will result in what could be the first facility in the Intermountain West specially designed to accept and process mixed loads of pulpwood logs and small sawlog segments.
Dodge Logging hopes to eventually add a roundwood operation, a pellet manufacturing facility, and possibly a baled wood-shavings operation to supplement current residual markets. The company intends to retain the 100 current jobs in the Dodge companies and hope to add at least 10 more jobs as a result of their latest expansion.
Contact information
Dodge Logging, Inc.,
7888 Walters Rd.
Maupin, OR 97037
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