January 2020
COVER STORY – Arauco Grayling Comes Alive – GRAYLING, Michigan – When Arauco North America announced it would be building a greenfield particleboard plant in north-central Michigan there was a collective gasp from the composite panel producing community. The last greenfield particleboard plant in North America started up in 2001, compliments of Willamette Industries (which became...
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November 2019
COVER STORY – Huber Brings Back Spring City- Since its re-startup in April 2018, the Huber Engineered Woods oriented strandboard plant here has straddled the extreme highs and lows of OSB prices with a continued commitment to production of specialty items ZIP System sheathing and AdvanTech flooring panels. With the growing market presence of Huber’s specialty sheathing and flooring panels coming...
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September 2019
COVER STORY – Martco Chopin Doesn’t Rest On Its Laurels A force in southern forest products for more than 95 years, the Martin family has done a little bit of everything. But there’s one line of business, aside from forest management, that has outlasted them all – southern pine plywood. The Chopin facility is the largest operating SYP plywood facility in the world, thanks to its monster...
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July 2019
COVER STORY – GP Shows Good Form At Clarendon – The oriented strandboard plant here was the first of several re-started and even new OSB operations in North America to come on following the recession. How it got there involved a winding road over market bumps and through changing ownerships, culminating with a perseverance to get it running right and at the right time. Today it is one of six...
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May 2019
COVER STORY- Hardel Mutual Plywood Prefers Special Status Operating the top specialty plywood plant in Chehalis, Washington, U.S., Hardel Mutual Plywood continues to move closer to its goal of becoming a one-stop shop for all types of plywood customers. The recent addition of a 4×10 MDO press gives the plant even more flexibility for specialty panel industrial markets and builds on its reputation as...
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March 2019
COVER STORY Lights Come On At Tolko High Prairie by Jessica Johnson, Associate Editor, Panel World Ten years after shutting it down, Tolko Industries has refurbished and restored its OSB plant in High Prairie, Alberta. The mill was shuttered in early 2008 to protect the health of the company as the Great Recession settled in. High Prairie was Tolko’s first OSB mill built from the ground up in 1994. In...
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January 2019
Panel World magazine’s January 2019 issue features Post Falls, Idaho’s Plummer Forest Products and spotlights the small particleboard plant’s attention to detail. A full report and photos detail the 2018 Timber Processing & Energy Expo, held October 17-19 in Portland, Oregon. The annual 2019 Directory & Buyers’ Guide features the latest products, services and supplies. Other articles cover...
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November 2018
Panel World magazine’s November 2018 issue features Corrigan, Texas’ new RoyOMartin OSB facility, the company’s largest and most technologically advanced plant so far, as well as a Q&A with members of the Martin family. An article by industry veteran Dick Baldwin discusses peeler block preconditioning. A photo essay showcases IWF Atlanta 2018, held August 22-25 at the Georgia World Congress...
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