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Columbia Plywood Amends Permit In NC, Hopes To Add AirBurners FireBox

Columbia Plywood Amends Permit In Old Fort, Hopes To Add AirBurners FireBoxThe North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is accepting public comment on a...

Columbia Plywood Amends Permit In NC, Hopes To Add AirBurners FireBox 

Columbia Plywood Amends Permit In Old Fort, Hopes To Add AirBurners FireBox The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is accepting public comment on a...

Hexion Touts Renewable Adhesive

Hexion Touts Renewable AdhesiveHexion, a leader in adhesives, systems, and AI technologies for wood panel manufacturing, announced a partnership with Bloom Biorenewables, a Swiss startup, which has...

GP Transitions Leadership Role

GP Transitions Leadership RoleChristian Fischer, Georgia-Pacific president and CEO, announced in July he is retiring from the company at the end of October and will work to transition his...

Union Pacific Buys Norfolk Southern

Union Pacific Buys Norfolk SouthernUnion Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announced an agreement to create America’s first transcontinental railroad. The companies will seamlessly connect...

Evergreen Engineering Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

Evergreen Engineering Celebrates 40th Anniversary  Having proudly served the wood products and biomass energy sectors across the U.S. for 40 years, the company celebrated this milestone at...

Forisk Promotes Amanda Lang To President & COO 

Forisk Promotes Amanda Lang To President & COO  Forisk Consulting, a leading provider of forestry industry analytics and research, has announced further growth and updates to its leadership...

Technology Suppliers Brought Their A-Game To Ligna

Technology Suppliers Brought Their A-Game To Ligna More than 1,400 exhibitors from 49 countries participated in the 50th anniversary Ligna held May 26-30 at the Exhibition Grounds in Hannover,...

Kadant Carmanah, Hexion Announce Collaborative Partnership

Kadant Carmanah, Hexion Announce Collaborative PartnershipAs a manufacturer of stranding equipment used in the production of oriented strandboard (OSB) panels, Kadant Carmanah views its...

LP Building Solutions Names Tony Hamill COO

LP Building Solutions Names Tony Hamill COOLP Building Solutions (LP) has announced the appointment of Tony Hamill as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, effective June 30, 2025. “As we...

Roseburg Names Orozco To Direct Strategic Business

Roseburg has annouced that Nadine Orozco has been promoted to Director of Strategic Business Development. She has served as manager of strategic business development since 2022, and has been deeply involved in key company projects, including the recent sale of Roseburg’s Simsboro, La., particleboard plant to Kronospan and the company’s historic $700 million investment in Oregon manufacturing.

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Hoffman Companies Acquires Besse Forest Products Group

The Hoffmann Family of Companies (HFOC), a Florida-based family-owned private equity firm, has acquired Besse Forest Products Group, the longstanding Michigan-based family-run company with 10 manufacturing facilities, including four sawmills, a lumber drying concentration yard, four veneer mills and a cut-to-size plywood mill.

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Steinemann, Stiles Form Partnership

Steinemann Technology AG and Stiles Machinery have formed a strategic partnership, with Stiles responsible for the sales, service and support of all Steinemann Technology in the U.S. and Canada. Steinemann’s unmatched expertise in calibration and…

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Kerwood Joins Hansen-Rice

Hansen-Rice, Inc. (HRI) announced that Terry Kerwood and Matt Peerboom have joined their heavy industrial team as a business manager and director, respectively. Kerwood’s role is owner/ client advocate and liaison. As director, Peerboom…

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Stemwood Will Cease Operations

Stemwood Will Cease Operations  StemWood, a New Albany, Ind.-based veneer and lumber operation since 1905, announced it is winding down operations over the next several months while looking for...

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