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by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Oct 14, 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 out of its other plants, a directive for additional production pointed to the 20-year old plant that sits in the hills of northeast Tennessee, about an hour north of Chattanooga.
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by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Aug 19, 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 production of 510MMSF on a 3/8 in. basis in 2018. And the Chopin team was just recognized by APA – The Engineered Wood Association as the safest plywood plant in North America for a record-breaking seventh time.
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by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Jun 17, 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 Georgia-Pacific Wood Products OSB mills in North America and because it was the newest GP mill it was able to fully immerse itself into the guiding principles of legendary Koch Industries.
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by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Apr 18, 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 a go-to supplier for all sorts of products.
Article by Dan Shell, Managing Editor, Panel World
Hardel was also featured in Panel World November 2006 Issue.
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by Web Editor | Feb 15, 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 late June of 2018, Tolko approved the restart and a number of capital projects in order to modernize the idled facility.
