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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...

PELICE Adds Keynoters, Exhibitors

Organizers of the eighth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) have announced a partial list of keynote speakers for the event, which will be held Thursday-Friday, March 31 to April 1, 2022 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA…

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Forest Service Says 4FRI Is Still Alive

Following its cancellation of the Phase 2 Request for Proposal (RFP) and bid selection in September, which caught everybody by surprise, the Forest Service “has gone back to work” on how to move forward with stewardship and treatment of the 520,000 acres that was included in Phase 2, which was part of the 4 Forests…

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CalPlant I Regroups, Sale Is Possible

CalPlant I, LLC, which took 25 years to develop and build a rice straw-based medium density fiberboard plant and produce its first board late last year in Willows, Calif., has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and intends to conduct a court-supervised sale process…

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NewLife Gains Full Production

NewLife Forest Restoration has ramped up production at its new engineered wood products plant in Bellemont, Ariz., while also increasing forest restoration work in service of its 4 Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) Phase 1 Forest Service stewardship contract that seeks to thin and treat more than 300,000 acres at risk of…

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Labor, Materials Issues Cause Project Delays

The same labor availability issues that have plagued forest products manufacturers since the COVID pandemic began are also plaguing builders as the economy seeks to rebound. According to a survey of more than 2,000 construction companies, both hourly and salaried employees are…

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Roseburg To Shut Down Dillard P’board

Roseburg Forest Products (RFP) announced on August 25 that it will shut down its particleboard plant in Dillard, Ore. The plant has been in operation since 1965, and will continue running as the plant prepares for shut down in the next 60 days…

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