Buddy Douglas Retires From Scotch Plywood 

Buddy Douglas Retires From Scotch Plywood 

Buddy Douglas Retires From Scotch Plywood 

After 40 remarkable years in the timber industry, Buddy Douglas has officially retired as Plant Manager of Scotch Plywood. “Over his career, Buddy exemplified dedication, leadership and resilience, especially in the face of challenges like the devastating fire in 2021. His commitment to rebuilding and supporting our employees during that time was a testament to his character,” according to a statement from Scotch Plywood, referring to the fire at the facility in Waynesboro, Miss. and the ensuing rebuild and startup.

Douglas joined Scotch Plywood in 1994 and became Plant Manager in 2008. He always credited the outstanding team around him, saying, “I have had so many people who have made my job easier. They are dedicated folks, and I give them all the credit.” 

“His humility, passion and vision have left an indelible mark on our company and community,” the company stated. “Thank you, Buddy, for everything you’ve done for Scotch Plywood and the timber industry. Wishing you a well-deserved, fulfilling retirement!”

As Douglas steps into retirement, he looks forward to working on his 850+ acres of land and traveling with his wife, Mary. 

Scotch Plywood, headquartered in Fulton, Ala., named Nathan Ferguson as the new Plant Manager.

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New OSB Project In Alabama Gains Permitting

New OSB Project In Alabama Gains PermittingPeak Renewables U.S. Inc. has received required permitting for the construction and operation of a greenfield 650MMSF oriented strandboard plant in Enterprise (Coffee County), Ala. Last February, the Enterprise City Council...

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Roseburg Personnel Changes At Dillard Lumber, Medford MDF, Riddle Plywood

Roseburg Personnel Changes At Dillard Lumber, Medford MDF, Riddle Plywood

Roseburg Forest Products has made key personnel decisions at three of its wood processing facilities in Oregon.
  • Kendrick McBride returns to Dillard Lumber in Roseburg, Ore., to serve as plant manager. McBride began his career with Roseburg as a technical manager in 2017 at Dillard. More recently, he served as Production Manager at Roseburg’s Roanoke Valley Lumber in Weldon, N.C., leading the plant’s technical start up, oversaw team growth and has set the mill on track to expand operations in 2025.
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  • Casey Redwine assumes formal leadership at Medford MDF after working his way up through the mill since 2015 and, most recently, serving nine months as Operations Manager. The mill produces specialty MDF panels for the installer-friendly Armorite exterior trim product line.
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  • Brent Siegel manages Riddle Plywood, having assumed this role when he joined Roseburg in September. Siegel brings nearly 30 years of plywood manufacturing and leadership experience, most recently as plant manager at Georgia-Pacific’s Emporia, Va., plywood mill.
“We’re pleased to promote Kendrick and Casey, two valued and long-time team members, and to welcome Brent, to the Roseburg family,’’ Alexandre Ouellette, Director of Manufacturing—MDF and Dillard Lumber, says. “All three are capable leaders whose experience and focus will ensure our plants continue to manufacture quality, sustainable products safely and efficiently.” Matt Holt, Senior Director of Manufacturing, said of Siegel: “We’re excited by the fresh perspective and deep technical experience Brent brings to our plywood manufacturing operation in Riddle. His focus on people and problem solving will ensure the strongest outcomes for our customers and highest quality plywood products.” At Dillard Lumber, McBride replaces Kelly White, Roseburg’s Lumber Segment Director, who is retiring after a 35-year career at the company. He led the Dillard Lumber facility for eight years and most recently served as Lumber Segment Leader with oversight over Dillard and Roanoke Valley.

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New OSB Project In Alabama Gains Permitting

New OSB Project In Alabama Gains Permitting

Peak Renewables U.S. Inc. has received required permitting for the construction and operation of a greenfield 650MMSF oriented strandboard plant in Enterprise (Coffee County), Ala.

Last February, the Enterprise City Council approved ordinances to convert a 300 acre property into an industrial property. Shortly thereafter, ACES Consulting Group, on behalf of Peak, submitted the permitting application to Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management (ADEM). ADEM subsequently granted permits for the various development and production processes during the latter quarter of 2024.

The operation calls for SYP logs to be delivered to the site by truck, followed by three rotary drum debarkers and three stranders, two parallel single-pass rotary drum dryers (along with a Biomass Energy System using two biomass-fired combustion furnaces), two blenders for mixing liquid phenol formaldehyde resin and wax emulsion, four-layer mat forming station, multi-opening press, and finishing line.

Exhaust from both dryers would be routed to a wet ESP and to an RTO. Emissions from the press would be directed through an RCO.

Some early work is being done at the site.

Peak Renewables operates an industrial wood pellet facility and cross-laminated timber and glulam facility in Dothan, Ala.

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January 2025

January 2025

January 2025

COVER: Annual Directory & Buyers’ Guide

Also: Oregon’s Freres Engineered Wood has modernized its scarfing line in its Mass Ply Panel (MPP) operation, and continues to make production enhancements on its other manufacturing lines as well.

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FRERES INVESTS IN NEW TECH SYSTEMS THAT INNOVATE VENEER HANDLING, MPP OUTPUT

Freres Engineered Wood continues commitment to new technology and products for the future.

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  • Weyco Plans Timberland Mill
  • More Time Allowed To Prep For EUDR
  • Hexion Purchases AI-Driven Smartech

    PROJECTS
    • Dryer Replacement Optimizes Performance At Williams Lake Plywood
    • Arauco Plans MDF to USB Conversion
    SUPPLY LINES
    • McClure Steps Down at Altec
    • Raute Beefs Up NA Leadership
    • IWT-Moldrup Reports On NW Projects
    • Floyd/BE&E Plan Kentucky Expansion
    • Comact Reveals New Leadership
    CLIPPINGS
    • Georgia-Pacific Names SR VP of Operations
    • GP Will Redevelop Headquarters Site
    • UK’s Last Coal Plant Goes Down
    • California Pellet Mills Edge Ahead
    WHAT'S NEW
      • Block Enhancement
      • 50th Anniversary
      • Electric Spindle
      • Emission Testing

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      Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief, Panel World

      When we look back at 2024, what will the panel industry say? It was okay, in spots, nothing to brag about? Before we leave it behind entirely, just to refresh your memory, here were a few of the highlights:

      Hampton Lumber purchased RedBuilt from Atlas Holdings, which had formed RedBuilt with the acquisition of the commercial division of Trus Joist from Weyerhaeuser in 2009.
      Walter Jarck, whose career in the forest products industry spanned 65 years, and ranged from the development of logging machinery to engineered wood products, died January 3 at age 92.
      Boise Cascade announced investments in I-joist and LVL production at its Thorsby, Ala. mill, and major machinery upgrades at its plywood mill in Oakdale, La.
      Dr. Werner Pankoke, who directed the growth and technology innovations of his family’s panel machinery manufacturing business, Hymmen, died at age 85.
      Siempelkamp sold the once-popular KüstersPress and ContiPress technologies to Sund Fibertech.
      Longtime builder and developer of OSB operations, John Godfrey, announced his plan to build an 800MMSF brownfield OSB plant in Jay, Maine.
      Roseburg closed its particleboard mill in Missoula, Mont., marking the company’s exit from the particleboard manufacturing business.
      The ninth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) set an attendance record from the structural and non- structural wood products sectors and featured 35 presentations and 100 exhibitors in Atlanta in mid-March.
      Australian Panels ordered a new MDF plant for its Mont Gambier location.
      Roseburg reported that its new MDF components plant was well into construction at Riddle, Ore., to be followed by construction of a new MDF plant in Riddle.
      ● Kronospan acquired the particleboard facility from Woodgrain in Island City, Ore.
      Besse Forest Products closed several hardwood and veneer plywood plants in Wisconsin, not long after the company was purchased by the Hoffman Family of Companies.
      RoyOMartin produced its first board at its new OSB plant in Corrigan, Texas, known as Corrigan II, having started up the first OSB plant in Corrigan in 2018.
      U.S. wood products interests, and numerous Congressmen, voiced con- cerns about the pending EU Deforestation Regulation over possible impacts on U.S. product supply chain and timberlands management, leading to the delay of the EUDR by a year from the European Commission.
      Timberlab Holdings said it was building a cross-laminated timber plant in Millersburg, Ore.
      Dieffenbacher acquired longtime Italian family-owned Pagnoni Impianti.
      Hexion, a producer of adhesives and performance materials solutions, acquired Smartech, known as a cutting-edge technology company at the forefront of AI- driven manufacturing solutions.
      Weyerhaeuser announced its plan to invest $500 million to build a new TimberStrand engineered wood product facility near Monticello and Warren, Ark. with an annual production capacity of 10 million cubic feet, and with the goal of starting operations in 2027.

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      Loan Program Aims For Wood Processing Facilities To Help Reduce Wildfire Threats

      U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack has unveiled a new program to support American wood processing facilities.

      U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack has unveiled a new program to support American wood processing facilities, through a partnership with the USDA Rural Development and the USDA Forest Service to provide funding through the Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program (TPEP). The program will support the processing and utilization of wood products from National Forest System lands to improve forest health and reduce the risk posed by wildfires, insects, and disease and the detrimental impacts they have on communities and critical infrastructure. This program is funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It also reflects the goals of the President’s Investing in America agenda to rebuild the economy from the bottom up and middle out, and to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure. Secretary Vilsack explains, “Under the leadership of the Biden-Harris Administration, USDA Rural Development is partnering with the Forest Service to support timber industry innovations that improve forest health and reduce wildfire threats while creating good-paying jobs for people in rural, forest-dependent communities.” Through TPEP, $220 million will be made available in loan guarantees for borrowers to establish, reopen, retrofit, expand, or improve wood processing facilities, sawmills and paper mills, that use trees harvested from federal or Tribal lands. The program is designed to manage up to 20 million acres of national forests managed by the FS and complement the FS’s 10-year Wildfire Crisis Strategy.

      USDA Rural Development will begin accepting TPEP applications on December 26, 2024, with a maximum loan amount of $25 million. USDA encourages applicants to use the TPEP Dashboard to find areas identified as high or very high priority areas to address the risk of wildfires and insect infestations or disease, which have caused or have the potential to cause significant damage.

      Applicants may learn more through the upcoming TPEP webinar, scheduled for January 6, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ET. Visit https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_esofN0XPSi2AIEyt8pu74g#/registration.

      Applicants are encouraged to consider projects that will advance the following key priorities: Reducing climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through economic support to rural communities; ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to USDA Rural Development programs and benefits from Rural Development-funded projects; and assisting rural communities recover economically through more and better market opportunities and through improved infrastructure.

      TPEP will be administered through the OneRD Guarantee Loan Initiative program, visit https://www.rd.usda.gov/onerdguarantee.

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