Industrial Processing

Our Industrial Processing segment consists of our Wood Processing and Fiber Processing product lines. Our equipment, machinery, and technologies are used to recycle paper and paperboard and process timber for use in the packaging, tissue, paper, wood products and alternative fuel industries, among others.

Our brand portfolio includes well-established industry leaders such as Black Clawson, Carmanah, Goslin, Lamort, Nicholson, Noss, and Valon Kone and dates back to 1873. Our primary products include stock preparation systems and recycling equipment, debarkers, stranders, chippers, and logging machinery.

Key Industries

Packaging
Tissue
Paper
Metals
Wood Products
Alternative Fuels

Websites

Cogent Industrial Technologies

Cogent Industrial Technologies is an industrial automation and controls company. The company has established a reputation as a leader in industrial automation and controls with expertise in process technology integration, project management, industrial safety, and operational performance management systems.

Fiber Processing

Kadant’s fiber processing product line includes high-value, engineered systems critical to the preparation of virgin and recycled paper stock, and paper machine approach-flow applications, across the globe. These products include pulping, detrashing, deaeration, cleaning, screening, and thickening systems, as well as, deinking, refining and dispersing, heat transfer, recausticizing, and pulp washing systems.

Kadant Carmanah

Kadant Carmanah Design designs and manufactures equipment for the panel and engineered wood products, pulp and paper, and sawmill industries. This includes stranders, disposable knife systems, and chippers.

Nicholson Manufacturing

Nicholson Manufacturing designs and manufactures a range ring debarkers, from low-speed to high-speed, that are used in sawmills, OSB and plywood mills, and pulp mills. Nicholson also manufactures Madill log loaders and yarders.

Valon Kone

Valon Kone specializes in the development and production of rotor debarkers, in conjunction with flare reducing equipment. They offer solutions for all industrial debarking needs in locations where logs can be fed into the debarker one at a time.