Panel World’s November issue features Norboard Industries for starting up an OSB plant in Joanna, SC and for building a nearly identical OSB plant in Alabama. Also, Plum Creek continues to upgrade its softwood plywood plant in Columbia Falls, Montana. Agri-fiber in North America is starting to come out of the development phase and is beginning to compete in more than just commodity particleboard markets.
Panel World’s September issue spotlights Roseburg Forest Products, Co., long known for its softwood plywood expertise, for committing a portion of its panel production out of its Dillard, Oregon complex to hardwood plywood. Also, L-P approaches two decades of quality OSB production with an eye for detail.
Panel World’s July issue features the United State Gypsum Co.’s new gypsum wallboard plant in Bridgeport, Alabama as the company’s first Greenfield plant in more than 30 years. Turnkey Siempelkamp installation allows Roseburg to increase value-added panel production and further target 5 feet markets, and a North Carolina veneer producer adds more production capacity to accommodate growing demand for its products.
Panel World’s May issue reports that the Georgia-Pacific Corp. has installed a Raute Wood-Mecano Patchman veneer defect analyzer and automatic patching line at its hardwood plywood mill in Eugene, Oregon. Many machinery manufacturers in the panel industry will demonstrate their services in the Xyle and Sasmil expos in late May. Also, the success of the new Bagasse Board plant in Louisiana could lead to a series of small agrifiber plants in the sugar cane-rich state.
Panel World’s March issue features a new generation of USB plants in North America, including Louisiana-Pacific’s in Carthage, Texas that is shooting capacity numbers skyward. OSB coverage is provided as well, along with Ag-Fiber panel issues. Also, C.A. Garner Veneers, Inc. in northern Kentucky spent more than $3 million to bring its machinery and capacity up to international levels.