What Acrowood does

Acrowood Corporation is a privately held, family-influenced US manufacturer of heavy industrial equipment for the forest products industry, headquartered in Everett, Washington and operating since 1892. The company designs and builds custom-configured debarkers, chippers, screening machines, and distribution/separation equipment used by pulp mills, saw mills, panel board mills, and biomass/pellet facilities to create, resize, screen, and clean wood chips, sawdust, shavings, and debarked logs. Its core technology portfolio centers on proprietary platforms such as the textured DiamondRoll screens, the Continuous Rotary Debarker, the Air Density Separator, the Chip Cracker, and the Chip Slicer, supported by an in-house Development Center and pilot plant for testing with customer-specific materials.

Acrowood monetizes primarily through one-time capital equipment sales priced on a quote basis, with each machine custom-sized to the customer's species, climate, throughput, and downstream process requirements. An aftermarket parts function and field service engineering team provide recurring service and consumables revenue across the installed base. Go-to-market is a direct enterprise field sales motion led by regional sales managers across North America and an international sales contact, supplemented by an authorized agent network in Australia, Colombia, Finland, South Africa, and Sweden.

The company's competitive position is anchored by its 130+ year operating history, registered trademarks (DiamondRoll, Trillium), patent holdings, and a deeply embedded installed base: two-thirds of the top pulp producing mills by volume in North America and half of all chemical-pulp mills in North America have purchased Acrowood equipment in the last five years, with 425+ locations served across 250+ customers in 10+ countries over the same period. Headcount is stated in the 101–250 range, with active hiring across engineering, machining, and fabrication roles, and leadership is held by Dr. Shawn Javid (President & CEO) and Farhang Javid (President & General Manager).

Name

Acrowood

Legal name

Acrowood Corporation

Website

https://acrowood.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1892

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Acrowood is a 133-year-old US manufacturer of custom heavy industrial equipment for wood chip processing — debarkers, chippers, screening machines, and separation systems — serving pulp mills, sawmills, panel board mills, and biomass facilities across North America and through international agents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Everett

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Heavy Industrial Equipment Sales: Capital equipment sales of debarking machines, chippers, screening machines, and distribution/separation equipment to pulp mills, saw mills, panel board mills, and biomass facilities. Equipment is custom-sized and configured for customer requirements. One-time purchase model with potential for service contracts and parts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Acrowood designs, engineers, and manufactures heavy industrial equipment for the forest products industry, specializing in wood chip processing. Its portfolio includes rotary debarkers (batch and continuous), whole log and disc chippers, screening machines (DiamondRoll, Disc, Trillium, and rotary screens), and distribution/separation equipment such as air density separators, star feeders, and screw distributors. The equipment is custom-sized and configured for pulp mills, saw mills, panel board mills, and biomass/pellet mills.

Product overview

Acrowood offers a comprehensive portfolio of industrial forestry equipment for wood processing operations. The product line centers on four core equipment categories: Debarking Machines (Batch Rotary Debarker and Continuous Rotary Debarker), Chipping Machines (Whole Log Chipper, Slant Disc Chipper, Veneer Chipper and Feedworks, Rechipper, Chip Cracker, and Chip Slicer), Screening Machines (Trillium OSB Strand Screen, Disc Thickness Screen, HD Disc Scalping Screen, Dual Drive Suspended Rotary Screen, DiamondRoll Fines/Thickness/Particle Screens), and Distribution & Separation Equipment (Air Density Separator, Star Feeder, Screw Distributor). These machines work together in wood processing workflows from log debarking through chipping, screening, and material distribution, serving pulp mills, saw mills, panel board mills, and biomass & pellet mills.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DiamondRoll: Trade name for Acrowood's roll screen products with textured, knurled rolls for separating fines and particles
• Trillium

Products and services

• Batch Rotary Debarker
• Continuous Rotary Debarker A high-capacity stationary trough rotary debarker with multiple rotating shafts equipped with specialized tooling for continuous high-volume operations, ensuring uniform debarking while minimizing wood loss on frozen, crooked, and stringy-barked logs.
• Whole Log Chipper A robust chipping machine engineered to produce over 90% acceptable chips, featuring radial knives and optimized geometry for consistent chip size with minimal waste.
• Slant Disc Chipper A chipper renowned for producing uniform chips from waste wood or whole logs, offering stable feeding, reduced fines and pins generation, and low maintenance requirements.
• Veneer Chipper and Feedworks Equipment engineered to convert waste veneer into high-quality chips, providing superior yield of usable chips compared to other veneer chippers with enhanced stability and energy efficiency.
• Rechipper A machine designed to process oversized chips and reduce them to acceptable sizes for further processing, ensuring consistent chip quality and reducing waste in sawmill applications.
• Chip Cracker A machine that processes overthick chips by compression to crack fibers and allow pulping liquor penetration, minimizing fiber degradation, fines, and pins generation while maximizing pulp yield.
• Chip Slicer A precision machine that reduces the thickness of overthick chips using a knife and gauge plate mechanism within a rotating knife ring, achieving over 95% accuracy in slicing chips to target thickness.
• Trillium OSB Strand Screen A screen specifically designed for OSB (Oriented Strand Board) strand screening applications in panel board mills.
• Disc Thickness Screen A screening machine that separates chips by thickness using interleaving discs, critical for removing overthick chips in Kraft pulping operations to ensure uniform cooking.
• HD Disc Scalping Screen A heavy-duty, high-capacity pre-screening machine designed to remove large overs and protect downstream chip thickness screening equipment.
• Dual Drive Suspended Rotary Screen A high-quality screening machine engineered to solve woodyard challenges and maximize chip yields, featuring suspended rotary design for efficient material processing.
• DiamondRoll Fines Screen A roll screen with textured, knurled rolls that efficiently separates fines and particles between adjacent rolls, ensuring high fiber recovery and minimal maintenance.
• DiamondRoll Thickness Screen A screening machine that selectively removes overthick chips using knurled roll technology, ensuring only chips of correct thickness proceed to production.
• DiamondRoll Particle Screen A screen specifically engineered for precision separation of mid-sized particles such as pin and particle chips before pulping operations.
• Air Density Separator The most effective contaminant removal system for mills, using airflows and density differences to separate lighter contaminants such as dust, bark, and debris from heavier biomass materials.
• Star Feeder Equipment for material metering and feeding that ensures consistent material flow to processing equipment, featuring internal design for reliable material handling.
• Screw Distributor A material distribution machine that uses screw action to distribute and feed chips evenly, ensuring uniform material flow throughout processing operations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Two-thirds of top pulp producing mills by volume in North America use Acrowood products
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Whitty Engineering (Pty) Ltd.coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized agent for Acrowood equipment in Australia covering the Mount Gambier area and surrounding regions. Handles sales, service, and support for Australian customers.
• PrismaquimicacoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized agent for Acrowood equipment in Columbia, covering the Cali region. Manages sales and distribution for Colombian market.
• Banmark Oy AbcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized agent for Acrowood equipment in Finland, based in Vantaa. Handles sales and support for Finnish market and Nordic region.
• Devden (PTY) LtdcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized agent for Acrowood equipment in South Africa, located in Jacobs Industrial Park. Manages sales and distribution for South African market.
• Fredrik Naslund (Banmark)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorIndependent agent representing Banmark for Acrowood equipment in Sweden, covering the Swedish market.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Terex Corporation: Terex is a diversified heavy equipment manufacturer whose Environmental Products Group (including CBI and other brands) competes with Acrowood in wood chipping, grinding, and biomass processing, while bringing much broader scale and product breadth to overlapping customer segments.

Direct peers

• Valmet Oyj: Valmet is a Finnish process-technology supplier offering pulp and paper machinery, wood handling, and chip processing systems, including debarking and screening equipment, making it a close functional competitor to Acrowood in serving chemical-pulp and sawmill customers.
• Morbark LLC: Morbark is a US manufacturer of wood chippers, grinders, and material processing equipment serving forestry, biomass, and sawmill customers, with overlapping product categories to Acrowood's chippers and material handling systems in the North American market.
• Continental Biomass Industries (CBI): CBI manufactures industrial chippers, grinders, and material processing equipment for biomass and forestry markets, competing with Acrowood in the wood chip processing and biomass equipment space, and now operating as part of Terex.
• Vecoplan AG: Vecoplan is a German manufacturer of shredders, chippers, and wood processing equipment serving biomass, pulp, and panel board customers — a direct competitor in the size-reduction and screening equipment markets Acrowood targets.
• Andritz AG: Andritz is a global Austrian industrial group whose Pulp & Paper division manufactures wood processing equipment including chippers, debarkers, and screening systems for pulp mills, sawmills, and biomass plants — directly competing with Acrowood across overlapping product categories and customers.
• Pallmann Maschinenfabrik: Pallmann is a German manufacturer of size-reduction and wood processing machinery, including chippers, grinders, and screening equipment, making it a direct competitor to Acrowood in the wood chip and biomass processing segments.
• West Salem Machinery: West Salem Machinery is a US manufacturer of heavy-duty wood processing equipment including chippers, debarkers, and screening machines, competing directly with Acrowood across sawmill, pulp, and biomass customer segments.
• Kadant Inc. Kadant is a US-based supplier of stock-preparation and fiber-processing equipment for the paper industry, with overlapping product categories in screening, cleaning, and contaminant removal that compete directly with Acrowood's chip processing and density separation technologies.
• Metso Corporation: Metso offers wood and recycling processing equipment — including chippers, debarkers, and screening solutions — for pulp mills, sawmills, and biomass operations, competing head-to-head with Acrowood on chip quality and material handling systems globally.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/acrowood

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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