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Company Profile

Newnes-McGehee (NM) is a global industry leader in the supply of sustainable, high-payback products, solutions and services for the wood products industries.

History - From Initiative to Innovation

In 1912, the pioneering spirit of William Newnes and later of his son, Ray, and grandsons, Doug and Bill, was what drove a small blacksmith shop in Salmon Arm, BC, Canada to develop a sawmill machinery manufacturing business, Newnes Machine, with a reputation for service and quality.

Innovation led the company into the fields of electronic control systems and optimization in the '80's. Through a joint venture relationship with McGehee Equipment of Ukiah, California in 1996, the company evolved into a world-class provider of sawmill and planermill systems for the wood processing industry.

Product innovation and service excellence is what makes Newnes-McGehee a global industry leader today. Employing the latest technology, talents of our design teams and experience gained thru long-standing relationships with our customers, we continue to develop the high-performance, quality-rich solutions that the wood industries have come to depend on to meet their ever-changing needs.

Inventive thinking led to the development of many technology innovations. For McGehee it was the cant curve sawing gang, RoboGuide® linear edger and small log processing line; for Newnes it was the vertical bin sorter with live bin walls, state-of-the-art lumber handling systems, pioneering the development of optimization in the planermill and the integration of mechanical, controls and optimization into practical, reliable wood processing systems.

In 2008 the company was acquired by USNR, a global leader in the manufacture of state-of-the-art wood processing solutions. With the financial backing and stability of USNR, today NM is well equipped with the necessary resources to design the most effective systems tailored for wood processing customers worldwide. A nearly century-long relationship with the forest products industry has supported us with these endeavors.

Newnes-McGehee can provide advanced solutions for:

• Sawmill systems
• Planermill systems
• Scanning and optimization technology
• Customer support, service and training that is second to none