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June 13, 2023

Wood Technologies International

Wood Technologies International, a supplier of modern lumber processing equipment, technology, and essential tooling based appointed President Dale Brown to CEO, effective June 30. Outgoing CEO Craig Tompkins will serve as a strategic advisor to the Board of Directors of Wood Technologies. Brown has had a 37-year tenure with Wood Technologies and predecessor company USNR, starting his career in 1986 as an accounting data entry clerk. Past positions included chief accountant, controller, vice president, senior vice president, and CEO of USNR in 2018. Brown was named president of Wood Technologies upon the USNR/Wood Fiber Group merger in 2021. Tompkins helped spearhead the merger of Wood Technologies' predecessor companies: mill automation, equipment supplier and technology system integrator USNR, and sawmill parts supplier/manufacturer Wood Fiber Group, in November 2021. Tompkins also helped lead and integrate Wood Technologies' July 2022 acquisitions of Timber Automation, a provider of custom engineered equipment, aftermarket parts, controls and optimization systems; and The Knife Source, a manufacturer of machine knives used in waste wood chipper machines and brush chipper equipment. Wood Technologies has 1,500 employees and 30 operating sites, and is based in Woodland.




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