Rosvall Sawmill’s New Piece of Magic

At the end of June, after a short 8 month wait the Installation of the new look ISELI BNP100 CNC profile grinder took place at Rosvall Sawmill.

Purchasing this machine was justified after a very successful trial of the Thode VPD bandsaw profile back in early-October 2023, that is yielding a 15% gain in production since the mill has been running the Thode VPD saws full time since then.

The boys at Rosvall had the machine in place with power and air on and ready to go.

Monday afternoon the machine was powered up, test run and the recipes for the VPD double cut head rig and resaws programmed.

Tuesday morning after a few small adjustments the first saw was on and grinding, we found an issue with the feed finger later that afternoon. After shooting an email away to the Iseli service team in Switzerland we had the reply later that same evening and the following day a setting was changed, and the BNP was in full flight! The back up and support that Iseli provide is outstanding!

Wednesday morning, Adam and Tai, the Saw Doctors at Rosvall were into the training, boots and all, very quickly picking up the operation of their new bit of kit as they had already taken advantage of the opportunity to spend time at Thode Rotorua a few months prior training on our BNP100.

“It’s so easy to stay on top of the grinding with this machine and the reliability to just set and forget and know you will come back to a sharp finished saw is a whole new world over the old # 4 Armstrong.

The install went smoothly and caused no loss of production, and we had saws grinding within 2 days.

"The cleanliness of not having grinding dust everywhere is also a nice bonus and makes saw shop upkeep a bit easier also” Adam Mc Donald – Head Saw Doctor at Rosvall Sawmill

A big thank you to the team at Rosvall Sawmill for putting their trust in Thode to deliver another successful Iseli installation.