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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...

APA Board Adds Beers As Trustee

APA, The Engineered Wood Assn. Board of Trustees has added John Beers III as its newest member. He joins the APA Board of Trustees, filling the position vacated by Andy Konieczka’s resignation and move to a new role within Georgia-Pacific. Beers currently serves as the president of the structural panels business at Georgia-Pacific…

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J.M. Huber Corp. Receives Management Honor

J.M. Huber Corp. (Huber) has proudly announced it has been selected as a 2023 U.S. Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree. Sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, the program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams. The 2023 designees are U.S. private companies that have…

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India’s Greenpanel Grows With MDF

India’s largest MDF manufacturer, Greenpanel Industries Ltd., has ordered its third MDF plant from Dieffenbacher. The new thin-board line based on Dieffenbacher’s smart plant concept, CEBRO, will be added in Routhusuramala, Andhra Pradesh. That’s the same site where Greenpanel commissioned a Dieffenbacher MDF line with a 56 m long CPS, the longest continuous press in…

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Kronospan Announces Further Expansion At Alabama Site

Kronospan will begin construction of a new OSB manufacturing plant on its 460 acre site in Oxford, Ala. The new facility, employing 125, will have a footprint composed of 44 acres of new development, including substantial areas designated for product storage, rail spur and loading docks. Groundbreaking for the $350 million facility is scheduled for later this year…

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Panel World Gears Up To Exhibit At Ligna

Panel World magazine and its affiliates will be exhibiting at the upcoming international wood products fair, Ligna, to be held May 15-19 in Hannover, Germany. In addition to Panel World, the Hatton-Brown organization, which dates back to 1948 in Montgomery, Ala., today publishes five business magazines geared to the wood products industry…

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LP To Acquire Ontario OSB Facility

LP Building Solutions (LP) and Forex Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement for LP to acquire the assets owned by Wawa OSB Inc., a subsidiary of Forex Inc. The manufacturing facility in Wawa, Ontario will be converted into an LP SmartSide trim and siding mill. The transaction, which is subject to court approval and customary closing conditions, is expected to be completed in early May 2023…

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Bud Calvert Dies At 97

Bud Calvert Dies At 97 Harry (Bud) Calvert, a major participant in the plywood industry and principal of Calvert Manufacturing, died May 20. Calvert, a longtime resident of Oak Hill, Fla., was 97....

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Roseburg Promotes Grady Mulbery

Allyn Ford, president and CEO of Oregon-based Roseburg Forest Products, announced the promotion of Grady Mulbery to Vice President of Manufacturing for the company. In this newly created position...

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Sawmill Project Plans New Design

Multiple fingerjointing lines and edge gluing production will be part of a $250 million wood processing complex to be built in Winslow, Ariz. by Pioneer Associates, based in Billings, Mont. The...

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