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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,...

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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Con-Vey Promotes Joe Buck To Product Manager

Con-Vey has announced the promotion of Joe Buck from Sales Engineer to Product Manager, having been with the company for nearly four years. In his new role, Buck will lead the strategy development and execution of several products at Con-Vey, including particle board, MDF, and…

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Search North America Adds Senior Recruiter

Search North America (SNA), a leading wood products-based search, recruiting, and placement firm, is proud to announce and welcome Dave Rupp as a new Senior Recruiter, mainly focusing on the Western U.S. and Canada. He joins the SNA team with over 40 years of experience in…

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MDF Shipments Rose Last Year

North American composite panel shipments for all three product categories totaled 5.473MMSF for 2011, an increase of nearly 1% over 2010, according to Composite Panel Assn. Particleboard and MDF...

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Ameresco Starts Biomass Plant

Following a series of performance tests, Ameresco, Inc. has received its Final Acceptance Certificate from the U.S.  Dept. of Energy Savannah River Operations Office for the now operational DOE...

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NW Hardwoods Sold to AIP

NW Hardwoods Sold to AIP   Weyerhaeuser Co. has sold its hardwood lumber business, Northwest Hardwoods, to American Industrial Partners (AIP), which will operate the business as Northwest...

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