Devereaux Sawmill Inc., of Pewamo, Mich., recently installed a Tectronix Metal Shark system into its facility because its previous detector had become unreliable.

According to Devereaux officials, the former detector was rejecting many logs that were, in fact, metal free. The number of rejected logs was hampering production and the Metal Shark system was selected as a replacement.

“The Metal Shark finds the metal in our logs, marks the exact location and gives us a confidence we did not have with our previous system” said one company employee.