Welcome to Timbersoft cc - home to an exciting and
profitable change to traditional drying of SA Pine and Eucalyptus species
"The Timbersoft kiln upgrade was the most positive
upgrade that we could do. Timber quality improved and we had a huge drop in our
electricity bill" .......André Lombaard - Riversdal Sawmill
See our advertisement and articles in the
February issue of WOOD SA/Timber times and the Woodex issue of TimberIQ
magazines
Current Projects:
REFERENCES IN THE
TIMBER INDUSTRY:
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Khulani Timber
Industries: - T&T Eucalyptus kiln - Mr.
Doug Tallis, 015-3099202
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Ngomi Timbers –
Vryheid: Control upgrade of Progressive pine kiln and Dutch Oven design: Mr.
Rodney Thorpe, 011-8653075
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Spitzkop Sawmill –
Sabie: Automation and upgrade of Heatco progressive kilns, Servaas,
013-7642158
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Miracle Timbers –
Sabie: Timbersoft pine kiln, Ockie Botha, 013-7642617
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Holkay Sawmill –
Graskop: Automation and upgrade of Heatco progressive kilns. Drying
schedules for pine and Eucalyptus, Heinrich
& Otto Mohr. Tel. 083-6576277, 083-6576275
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CRS Timbers – Schagen:
Automation and upgrade of Heatco progressive kilns. Drying schedules for
pine and Eucalyptus, Ruan Smith - 082 4183557
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Sandveld sawmill –
Whiteriver: Automation and upgrade of Heatco progressive kilns, and
Automation of new Bosman kilns. Drying schedules for pine and Eucalyptus.
013-7961314
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Sun Pallets – Sodwala:
Automation and upgrade of Heatco progressive kilns, Willie Coetzee - 013 733
3319
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Riversdal Sawmill –
Riverdal: Automation of Compartment kilns, Andre Lombaard, 0828526224
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Lothair Milling Company
– Lothair: Control upgrade of
Progressive pine kiln. Nick van
der Walt. 017-8453084
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Verulam Sawmill –
Barberton
, Control upgrade of Progressive pine kiln & Heatco Kiln. Edward
013-7123185
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Warburton Sawmill –
Warburton: Automation and upgrade of New Bosman progressive kilns. Braam
Steenkamp, 0179451517
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| Yorkcor – Drying consultation (in the beginning
days!) Mr. Deon Breytenbach 013-7649200 |
Timbersoft Profile
Timbersoft have offices in Whiteriver Mpumalanga and Port Elizabeth, Eastern
Cape
Timbersoft specializes in upgrading of kilns and drying controls for drying SA Pine
boards, poles, as well as Eucalyptus poles and boards. After the upgrade we
assist in setting up optimum drying schedules for each kiln. We can also optimizing drying schedules
on existing control systems (provided they are accurate and flexible enough)
We have since our establishment in 2001 done Automation upgrades on more than
50 Kilns
at various different sites and the designing and building of 4 complete kilns. We
have done work in South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland and Tanzania. We also
do Dutch oven designing and Saw mill consulting work. We are currently busy with
plans to expand the automation leg of the business to other industries
Who is Timbersoft?
Johan and Henco Viljoen is the key
team at Timbersoft
Johan has 44 years Saw milling and drying experience, of which many years were
spend developing a unique approach to drying timber at conventional and high
temperatures. He developed his passion for drying in his early days of saw
milling when he started questioning why kiln reject rates where so high. He has
an in depth technical knowledge of the whole sawmilling environment
Henco holds a
Bachelor’s Degree in Wood technology from
Nelson
Mandela
Metropolitan
University
- RSA, an Advanced Diploma in Industrial Automation from the Engineering
Institute of Technology -
Australia
and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. He has 15 years IT background of
which the last 8 years was spend working closely with Johan, soft-coding his
drying principles into the Timbersoft control system. He has experience in the
programming various PLCs including Siemens S7, Omron, Unitronics and Delta as
well as setting up and supporting SCADA systems like, ADROIT, ZVIEW and Citect.
Henco has been contracted, since 2008, as the moderator for the Timber seasoning
exams in the Wood technology Diploma and Bachelors courses at The Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan University.
The rest of the support team, which gets subcontracted on an add-hoc basis as
needed is made up of a full time Saw Miller/Wood technologist, an Electrical
engineer, and a Millwright.
Between the team, they have 56+ years Saw milling, 40 years Electric and
Mechanical Engineering, 15 years Information Technology and 8 years Automation
experience.
Timbersoft is System Integrators for
OMRON PLCs, Adroit Scada Systems, Unitronics PLCs and ZIEW SCADA. Other Off the
shelf PLC/Scada options can also be used depending the client’s preferences
Contact Information
- Telephone
- +27 82 8755171 (Johan) +27 72 3318857 (Henco)
- FAX
- +27 86 6851405
- Postal address
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- Electronic mail
- General Information: hencov@lantic.net
