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Rayonier Announces Wood Products Leadership Transition

Rayonier Announces Wood Products Leadership Transition  Rayonier Inc. has announced that Ashlee Townsend Cribb has resigned as Executive Vice President, Wood Products to accept a CEO opportunity...

Vecoplan AG Announces New CEO

Vecoplan AG Announces New CEO Following Eric Jaschke's appointment to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in December 2025, Vecoplan AG has also strengthened its Executive Board leadership with Dr. Ralf...

Roseburg Restarts Dillard MDF Mill Construction 

Roseburg Restarts Dillard MDF Mill Construction  Roseburg Forest Products has announced it is restarting construction activities at Dillard MDF, a modern new medium density fiberboard (MDF) plant...

Investment Firm Angeleno Group Invests In NESTEC

Investment Firm Angeleno Group Invests In NESTEC Angeleno Group, a Los Angeles-based investment firm providing venture capital and growth equity to clean energy and climate solutions companies,...

U.S. Forest Service Announces New Funding Opportunities

U.S. Forest Service Announces New Funding Opportunities The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service has announced up to $95 million in competitive grant funding through its Wood Innovations...

Weyco Expects Strong Growth

Weyco Expects Strong Growth Weyerhaeuser Co. hosted an Investor Day in December and outlined the company's strategic growth plan and financial targets through 2030. "Weyerhaeuser stands alone in...

U.S. Lumber Coalition Taps Steve Swanson For Chair, Again 

U.S. Lumber Coalition Taps Steve Swanson For Chair, Again Steve Swanson, CEO & Executive Chairman of the Swanson Group, and recently named the Timber Processing 2026 Person of the Year, has for...

PELICE Reveals 2026 Agenda 

PELICE Reveals 2026 Agenda  Organizers of PELICE, the Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo, have released the preliminary agenda for the event to be held April 16-17 at...

Fagus-GreCon Acquires DMC From Bakelite

Fagus-GreCon Acquires DMC From Bakelite In a strategic move driven by customer focus and long-term market optimization, Fagus-GreCon has acquired the Dynamic Microchamber (DMC) from Bakelite. This...

Steve Swanson Is Timber Processing’s 2026 Person of Year

Steve Swanson Is Timber Processing's Person of the Year Longtime Northwest forest products executive Steve Swanson, CEO of Swanson Group based in Roseburg, Ore., was named Timber Processing...

GP Donates $100,000 To Volunteer Fire Department In Corrigan, Texas

The Corrigan Volunteer Fire Department, which has close to 25 active volunteers and answered more than 150 emergency calls in 2022, has kicked off a capital campaign to build a new fire station, which will cost $400,000. In support of this campaign, and in recognition of the three major facilities Georgia-Pacific operates (and the 1,000 people employed) in Polk County, Texas, the company has donated $100,000 to the effort…

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Weyerhaeuser Partnership Focuses On Firefighter Mental Health

Weyerhaeuser Co. and Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance (FBHA) announced an expanded partnership on Fighting Fires Together, a campaign that provides support for wildland firefighters and their families. In its second year, the program is designed to provide resources and increase awareness around the importance of mental health assistance for these first responders…

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Uniboard Modernization On Track At Val-d’Or

Uniboard reports its $350 million particleboard plant modernization program is going as planned at Val-d’Or, Quebec; originally announced in June 2022, this is the third phase of its modernization for its particleboard and TFL mill. More than $100 million was invested in Phase 1 and Phase 2, which were…

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Jim Herold Retires From Rainier Veneer

Rainier Veneer, Inc., Spanaway, Wash., announced that Plant Manager Jim Herold retired the first of June after 25 years as manager. Previously Herold worked at Roseburg Forest Products where he was plant manager of the Dillard plywood mill. He began his career at RFP after graduating from Oregon State University in 1974…

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West Fraser Announces Senior Leadership Transition Plan

Hank Ketcham, Chairman of West Fraser’s Board of Directors, announced that Ray Ferris, current West Fraser President and Chief Executive Officer, plans to retire on December 31, 2023. Ferris has been with West Fraser for over 26 years in increasingly senior positions culminating in his appointment as President and Chief Operating Officer in 2018 and as a director of the Company in 2019…

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Dale Brown Becomes USNR CEO

Wood Technologies International announced that President Dale Brown has been appointed CEO of the company, succeeding Craig Tompkins who now serves as a Strategic Advisor to the Board of Directors of Wood Technologies. “We are proud to have Dale step into this role after eight years of leadership at…

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China Eases Ban On Virginia Logs

Governor Bob McDonnell announced that following Virginia’s year-long efforts, and hosting of a Chinese technical delegation of plant pest officials, China has agreed to a six-month pilot project...

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Workshop Day Planned For Portland

Workshop Day Planned For Portland   Hatton-Brown Expositions LLC, producer of the new Timber Processing & Energy Expo to be held October 17-19, 2012 at the Portland Exposition Center in...

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