January 2020
Cover: 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.
Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Associate Editor, Panel World
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Arauco Grayling Comes Alive
Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Associate Editor, Panel World
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 Willametter Industries (which became Weyerhaeuser, which became Flakeboard, which sold to none other than Arauco).
Arauco would not only be blazing a greenfield trail to close out this decade, but the plant would be the largest single-line capacity plant on the continent.
North America’s largest single-line capacity particleboard plant, Arauco’s Grayling, Michigan facility gets it done with a 172 ft. continuous press from Dieffenbacher.
The ones that get it done: Grayling’s management team.
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