About Us

Company Profile

Our Mission

Coe Newnes McGehee (CNM) is a global industry leader in the forest products industry. Our goal is to utilize technology to create sustainable, high-payback products, solutions and services for our customers and the wood products industries.

History - From Initiative to Innovation

The year was 1852, and the ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit of two businessmen, Harold Hayes Coe and Leonard Anderson, developers of the first Rotary Veneer Lathe, allowed Coe Manufacturing of Painesville, Ohio to grow from a small manufacturer of sawmill machinery to a global provider of innovative, state-of-the-art solutions for the wood industries.

In 1912, the pioneering spirit of William Newnes and later of his son, Ray, and grandsons, Doug and Bill, was what drove a small blacksmith shop in Salmon Arm, BC, Canada to develop a sawmill machinery manufacturing business, Newnes Machine, with a reputation for service and quality.

Innovation led the company into the fields of electronic control systems and optimization in the '80's. Through a joint venture relationship with McGehee Equipment of Ukiah, California in 1996, the company evolved into a world-class provider of sawmill and planermill systems for the wood processing industry. This rich history is what brought these 3 strong entities together in 2002.

Product innovation and service excellence is what makes Coe Newnes McGehee a global industry leader today. Employing the latest technology, talents of our design teams and experience gained thru long-standing relationships with our customers, we continue to develop the high-performance, quality-rich solutions that the wood industries have come to depend on to meet their ever-changing needs.

Inventive thinking from Coe Manufacturing led to the development of the first rotary veneer lathe, the veneer dryer, and the computerized X-Y charger.

For McGehee it was the cant curve sawing gang, RoboGuide® linear edger and small log processing line; for Newnes it was the vertical bin sorter with live bin walls, state-of-the-art lumber handling systems, pioneering the development of optimization in the planermill and the integration of mechanical, controls and optimization into practical, reliable wood processing systems.

Recognizing the need to offer the newest and most reliable technology to our clients, Coe Newnes McGehee has expanded through several acquisitions. This expansion had allowed us to provide comprehensive, sophisticated machinery solutions that meet the diverse needs of manufacturers in the building products industries.

Today CNM is well equipped with the necessary resources to design the most effective system tailored for manufacturers of veneer, plywood, lumber, panel board, wallboard and engineered materials. A century-long relationship with the forest products industry has supported us with these endeavors.

Coe Newnes McGehee is your single supplier solution for:

• Veneer Systems
• Sawmill Systems
• Planermill Systems
• Scanning and Optimization Technology
• Panel and Plywood Press Systems
• Dry Kilns
• Engineered Wood Systems
• LVL Systems
• Customer Support, Service and Training second to none

The legacy of the pioneering spirit sparked by the founders allows CNM to offer new generations of state-of-the-art products and solutions to our clients. Our next innovation is already in the works.