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John King Chains Celebrates 100th Year

Combilift Fundraiser For UNICEF Has Lots Of WinnersJohn King Chains Group is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2026. Established in Leeds, England in 1926, the enterprise began by producing...

Combilift Fundraiser For UNICEF Has Lots Of Winners

Combilift Fundraiser For UNICEF Has Lots Of Winners   The Combilift Fundraiser in support of UNICEF has officially come to an end. Total tickets purchased, for a chance to win the 100,000th...

Weyco Wood Fiber Will Feed Aymium Biocarbon

Weyco Wood Fiber Will Feed Aymium BiocarbonWeyerhaeuser Co. and Aymium entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to partner to produce and sell 1.5 million tons of sustainable biocarbon annually...

Webster Industries Purchases Renold

Webster Industries Purchases RenoldMPE Partners along with its portfolio company, Webster Industries, announced the closing of its acquisition of Renold plc, a leading designer, engineer,...

Arclin To Acquire Willamette Valley Co. 

Arclin To Acquire Willamette Valley Co.Arclin, a leading material science company, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Willamette Valley Co. (“WVCO”), a manufacturer and...

Sunds Fibertech Opens U.S. Office

Sunds Fibertech Opens U.S. OfficeSunds Fibertech is taking a major step in its growth journey by opening its first U.S. office in Atlanta, Ga., strengthening its global footprint and commitment to...

American Wood Council Elects New Chairman

American Wood Council Elects New ChairmanAmerican Wood Council (AWC) announced the election of West Fraser President and CEO Sean McLaren as the new Board Chair for a two-year term. McLaren will be...

Boise Cascade Announces CEO Transition, Taps COO Jeff Strom

Boise Cascade Announces CEO Transition, Taps COO Jeff StromBoise Cascade announced that CEO Nate Jorgensen plans to retire effective March 2, 2026, to be succeeded by current COO Jeff Strom....

GP Clarendon Donates $5,000 To Central Carolina Technical College

GP Clarendon Donates $5,000 To Central Carolina Technical CollegeGeorgia-Pacific’s Clarendon OSB Facility recently donated $5,000 to Central Carolina Technical College’s (CCTC) Foundation in...

Roseburg Closes Weed Veneer Mill

Roseburg Closes Weed Veneer MillRoseburg Forest Products has recently announced the closure of its veneer plant in Weed, Calif. The company is focusing on veneer production at its Oregon mills,...

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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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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Arauco Will Build New Plant

Arauco announced it will reconstruct the plywood mill that was destroyed by fire at its complex in Nueva Aldea, Chile. “We know that the community, our workers and neighbors, expect us to rebuild...

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Lumber Design Values Altered

Following proposals from the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau (SPIB), the American Lumber Standard Committee (ALSC) recently approved a design value change for No. 2 2x4 visually graded southern pine...

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