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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...

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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Producers Announce Personnel Changes

PotlatchDeltic Corp. has appointed Ashlee Cribb as Vice President, Wood Products. She succeeds Tom Temple, who is retiring in October after serving in this role since 2009. “We are thrilled to welcome Ashlee,” comments Eric Cremers, PotlatchDeltic…

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Arboreal Plans CLT Facility In Uruguay

Equipment and technology supplier Ledinek reports it has been selected to supply a CLT line for a new venture, Arboreal, in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. In March 2021, businessman Mark Crandall from the United States and Matías Abergo, CEO of…

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