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RoyOMartin Announces Top Leadership Changes

RoyOMartin Announces Top Leadership ChangesOn the occasion of its 102nd anniversary, RoyOMartin has announced that longtime Chairman and CEO Dr. Roy O. Martin III will step back from his role as...

Vaagen Timbers Changes Ownership 

Vaagen Timbers Changes Ownership Russ Vaagen, CEO and founder of cross-laminated timber and glulam producer Vaagen Timbers in Colville, Wash., reports on his podcast Forest to Frame that he and the...

Wood Adhesives Conference Concludes With Over 50 Technical Presentations

Wood Adhesives Conference Concludes With Over 50 Technical PresentationsThe 2025 International Conference on Wood Adhesives (ICWA), produced by the Forest Products Society (FPS) was held in...

Westmill Names Karl Kenny Vice-President 

Westmill Names Karl Kenny Vice-President Westmill has named Karl Kenny as Vice President. With more than 30 years of international leadership and engineering management, Kenny has successfully...

EWS’ Keith Mays Receives Mark Hatfield Award

EWS’ Keith Mays Receives Mark Hatfield AwardLeague of Oregon Cities' (LOC) prestigious Mark O. Hatfield Statesmanship Award was presented to Sherwood City Councilor Keith Mays at the LOC's 100th...

Roseburg Exits Hardwood Plywood 

Roseburg Exits Hardwood Plywood Roseburg Forest Products announced it has ceased operations at its Dillard hardwood plywood facility and is exiting the hardwood plywood market. The company states...

TimberHP Produces TimberBoard 

TimberHP Produces TimberBoard TimberHP reports its TimberBoard line is now rolling at its Madison, Maine facility, producing the first wood fiber continuous insulation of its kind made and sold in...

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...

Hasslacher Enters North America

Austria-based Hasslacher group is acquiring a stake in Element5, a mass timber producer specializing in the design, manufacture and assembly of modern engineered timber buildings. Based near Toronto, Can., Element5 employs more than 100 and produces cross-laminated timber and glued laminated timber for the North American market.

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Endowment Welcomes New Board Members

U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announces that Fritz Mason, Paul Hossain and Anna Torma were elected as new directors at the organization’s fall board meeting. “Drawing upon diverse backgrounds, they each bring a distinctive perspective and unique vision. We look forward to collaborating with them to further the mission of the Endowment,” comments Pete Madden, President and CEO of the Endowment.

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FPIC At Louisiana Tech Receives Donation

Martin Sustainable Resources LLC of Alexandria, La. has donated $1 million to Louisiana Tech as a leadership gift toward construction of the University’s new Forest Products Innovation Center (FPIC), with the assurance of another $1 million to be presented by this June. The Center will be on South Campus and provide space for a transdisciplinary approach to solving the challenges…

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Kadant Completes Key Knife Acquisition

Kadant Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of Key Knife, Inc. and some of its affiliates for approximately $156 million in cash, subject to certain customary adjustments. The acquisition was financed primarily through borrowings under Kadant’s revolving credit facility. Key Knife, a global supplier of engineered knife systems for custom chipping, planing, and flaking solutions for wood product industries, is headquartered in Tualatin, Ore. with…

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PELICE 2024 Continues To Light Up Scoreboard With New Presentations

Organizers of the ninth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo announced that attendee registration is open for the event, which will be held March 14-15, 2024 at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park in downtown Atlanta, Georgia— the same location as the previous eight PELICE events…

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Kronospan Completes Simsboro Particleboard Purchase

Kronospan, a producer of wood panel products, has announced the closing of its purchase of Roseburg’s Simsboro, La., particleboard facility following the expiration of the required regulatory review period. Ownership of the plant has been transferred from Roseburg to Kronospan…

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Arizona Project Moves Forward

Good Earth Power and Campbell Global (formerly The Campbell Group) officials are implementing the first phase of the ambitious 4 Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI) across four national forests in...

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