LOGS Specifications. Saillat Mill

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1 LOGS Specifications Saillat Mill 1

2 1 RECEPTION Any delivery entering the factory will be checked during the weighing. The receiver will notify to the carriers any irregularity entailing penalties or refusal (should the irregularity be noticed during the weighing or the unloading). The noticed irregularities will be recorded on the delivery note. If a delivery does not correspond to the present specifications, discounts will be applied according to the scale appearing page 5. In case of discount or refusal of the goods, a photography of the load will be taken and will be available for consultation by the supplier during 1 month on the website Portail Bois. In the case of obvious dissimulation and / or second occurrence, the CBB reserves the right to cancel the contract of the supplier. The factory of Saillat reserves the right to modify the specifications having beforehand informed the suppliers by mail. The schedules of reception to Saillat are posted next to the weighing machine. The factory reserves the right to modify them having beforehand warned the suppliers by mail. In case of damage to the equipment of the factory, or interruption of the machines by the fact of a nonconforming delivery, a corresponding compensation can be asked from the supplier and its approval could be removed. 2

3 2 THE SPECIES Softwood : All the species authorized within the framework of the environmental specifications can be delivered. Hardwood : All the species authorized within the framework of the environmental specifications can be delivered. Only lime is forbidden. Mixed load : Species can be mixed in the same delivery, but only within the same softwood or hardwood family. The mixture SOFTWOOD and HARDWOOD on the same truck is strictly forbidden. A load can thus composed only of SOFTWOOD or HARDWOOD (see scale of the penalties page 5). Species reception rules : Received species are those listed in the table below : SOFTWOOD HARDWOOD - Oak - Spruce - Chestnut - Douglas Fir - Beech - Scots Pine - Horbeam - Maritime Pine - Birch - Other Softwood species - Poplar /Aspen - Other Hardwood species The species will be received by estimating their distribution percentage of the delivery while limiting to 4 the maximum number of species which can be received on a single truck. 3 QUALITY Wood have to be of healthy, loyal and trade quality (exempt from any pollutant). Calcinated wood or presenting tracks of fire on the bark are forbidden. Rotten wood (with altered cellulose fibers) are not accepted. On the other hand, blue or darkened wood (for example following an extended stay in the water) are accepted (Cf. photos). Are excluded, wood containing foreign pieces : stones, diverse metals (nails, wires, barbed wires, etc.), and plastics (marking plates, threads, tarpaulin, etc.) 3

4 4 SHAPING Lengths : Lumber can be shaped according to 2 categories of length: - Categorie «2 meters» : Length between 1.80m and 2.70m - Catégorie «4 meters» : Length between 2.70m and 4.00m Logs must be delivered by piles of homogeneous length (the same category of length) Diameters : Logs must have a minimum diameter on bark of 7 cm. Wood have to fit in a wrapping cylinder of 60 cm in diameter. wrapping cylinder If in a load, a log does not fit in this wrapping cylinder for reasons of righteousness, quality of shaping or section, the load will be refused. Shaping quality : Logs have to be of clear section at both extremities, branches and knots should be planed, forked wood eliminated. The righteousness, the complete elimination of branches and forks are the essential conditions for a correct feeding of the cutting machine (see plan below). Gravity feeding gutter of the cutting machine 4

5 5 PENALTIES Motives entailing discount or refusal of the load : When all or part of the load of a truck is not in compliance with the present specifications, it could be discounted or refused according to the modalities described in the table below : MOTIVES Wood not entering the wrapping cylinder (too big, twisted, forked) Forbidden wood (species, mix coniferous broad-leaved trees, burned wood) Wood too long MIN DISCOUNT MAX DISCOUNT Detection during the unloading: 40 % REFUSAL Detection in the weighing machine : refusal of the complete load Wood containing pieces of metal, stone, plastic, Rotten wood (only detected in the reception process) Refusal beyond the equivalent of 5-6 steres of rotten wood Too small diameter logs 5% (*) 25% (*) Refusal beyond 25 % ( Fine diameter kicks lower than 7 cm) (*) : The percentage of discount corresponds to the part of not corresponding wood noticed in the load. Any partially or totally refused load or for which a discount will have been applied will be the object of a photo you could consult for a month on the Wood Portal of IP CBB ( All the cases of refusal of a load and 40 % discount will be the object of a Conformity Plan ( PMC). Important The factory reserves the right to refuse a delivery if the load presents difficulties of implementation of the unloading equipments or causing problems of safety. In case of total or partial refusal of the load in agreement with the present specifications, the transport will stay chargeable to the supplier if the cause of the refusal is attributable to him/her. The buyer reserves the right to visit working sites and storage places of the supplier to control the quality and the cleanliness of wood, and in a more general way, the execution of the clauses of the purchase contract of these products to facilitate the later receptions to the factory. 5

6 Exemples de bois mal façonnés 6

7 Examples of rotten wood Evaluation of small diameter logs 7

8 Subsidiary of the group International Paper, the CBB is the exclusive wood supplier of Saillat Paper Mill and has for activity the exploitation, the trade and the marketing of forest products. Leader in our business sector, we mobilize 1,5 million tons of wood a year intended for the industrialists of the paper pulp, the sawmills as well as for the energy production. The environmental protection is essential to guarantee the sustainability of our activity. That is why it must be integrated into each of the 3 principles which based our corporate policy: - the operational excellence the development of the people - the satisfaction of our customers. The control of our resource and our chain of custody allows us to propose a wide range of wood products coming from PEFC or FSC certified forests. Our diverse certifications allow us to offer to our customers the opportunity to act in a responsible way on their sources of supply and to value their offers of products. 8 COMPTOIR DES BOIS DE BRIVE Logs Trade Service 17, avenue Maillard - CS BRIVE CEDEX FRANCE Tel. : / Fax :