CT Log highlights at Arauco
High-Speed CT-Scanning at Arauco, Horcones
To increase the yield and the added value Arauco decided to install a CT Log in the plant of Horcones. The high-speed 360° X-ray CT-Scanning Optimization reconstructs in real time, using complicated algorithms, a tridimensional image of the logs. The scanner detects with precision the change over from heartwood to sapwood as well as the course of the heart wood. This particularity leads to a great profit of the high quality of the boards. Moreover CT Log recognizes, besides the geometrical characteristics, discolorations, mechanical damages, differences in density, form and position of knots, to be aware of the internal quality of the boards. The other advantage, while producing veneer, is to better center the log into the husking machine. Furthermore, it is possible to make a precise sorting of green logs for the processing in the sawmills and in the plywood industry.
Arauco evolved to one of the major forestry companies in Chile and Latin America for the size quality of the plantation forests where over all we find radiata pine. Other plantations are in Argentina and Uruguay. The global player Arauco has as first objectives the quality and great value of the production results as well as to preserve the sustainability of wood.
For many years Microtec and Arauco joines a valuable partnership. On the site Horcones, Microtec delivered the whole measuring devices for the log yard from the bucking, the log sorting to the data processing. Further more, all production process controls were accurately coordinated by Microtec. Also the whole reworking of the raw material for the sawmills and for the plywood industry was optimized by Microtec solutions.
Arauco is scanning 650 thousand m3 / year with Microtec CT Log 360° X-ray scanner