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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...

Georgia-Pacific Names New Building Products Leader

Andy Konieczka, currently President–Structural Panels, will assume the leadership role for the building products business as Executive Vice President–Building Products. Konieczka will report to the company’s President and CEO Christian Fischer. Konieczka has been with Koch companies since 1992. In 2006, he joined Georgia-Pacific, holding strategy, optimization and management roles in wood and fiber, and…

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Structurlam Files For Bankruptcy, May Sell To Mercer International

Structurlam Mass Timber Corp. has filed for bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell the company’s new Conway, Ark. CLT plant and its Canadian assets for $60 million, pending court approval. Structurlam entered the asset-purchase agreement with Mercer International Inc., a global forest products company which operates a mass timber facility in Spokane, Wash. However, Mercer’s purchase is subject to a better offer in a court-monitored process…

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Panel Producers Make Key Hires

Roseburg has named Lorraine Russ as Director of Structural and Specialty Panels, a newly created role in which she will lead the company’s commercial efforts for softwood and hardwood plywood. Russ comes to Roseburg with a solid depth of leadership experience in strategic sales planning, product innovation and commercialization, and marketing after more than a decade in the building products industry….

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TP&EE Sets 2024 Show Dates

Hatton-Brown Expositions LLC announces that the next Timber Processing and Energy Expo (TP&EE) will be held September 25-27, 2024 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. The 2024 show will be the sixth biennial TP&EE to be produced since 2012 by Hatton-Brown Expositions, LLC, an affiliate of Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. and of Timber Processing, Panel World and Wood Bioenergy magazines. All of the TP&EEs have been held at the Portland Exposition Center. (The 2020 event was canceled due to…

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Roseburg Announces Massive Investment

In a much-anticipated announcement, Roseburg Forest Products revealed in last week its plan to invest $700 million during the next four years to upgrade and expand its manufacturing operations in southern Oregon, including the construction of a MDF facility in Dillard, current site of multiple operations and where the company was founded nearly 90 years ago. The total investment package includes the creation of two new manufacturing plants, and technological improvements and upgrades at existing plants in rural Douglas and Coos counties…

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LP Adds New VPs

LP Building Solutions (LP) has announced that Libby Berman has been named Vice President, Chief Tax Officer and Bob Hopkins has been named Vice President, Treasurer. “Bob and Libby have been invaluable contributors to the LP team for many years now,” says LP Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Alan Haughie…

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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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