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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...

SFI President & CEO Kathy Abusow To Retire

SFI President & CEO Kathy Abusow To Retire The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has announced that President and CEO Kathy Abusow will retire in 2026, having led SFI through a period of...

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,...

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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...

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China’s BFP Orders Fine OSB Plant

Chinese wood-based panel producer, A Beautiful Family Plate Making Co. Ltd. (BFP), has contracted with Dieffenbacher for a complete Fine OSB plant in Guangxi, China. Installation of BFP’s new plant is scheduled for the second quarter of 2023. The first board is expected to be produced in fall 2023…

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Egger Gets Going On P’Board Plant

Egger Gets Going On P’Board Plant  Egger reported in mid-November it has started construction on its first U.S. manufacturing plant. Construction of the particleboard plant in Lexington, NC...

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Arauco-Grayling Is Paving The Way

As of the end of August, Arauco reported 1,526,355 total project hours completed since April 2017 at its particleboard plant under construction in Grayling, Mich. The company also reported the use...

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Katerra Plans Components Factory

Katerra Plans Components FactoryKaterra, a technology company that claims it is redefining the construction industry, announced plans to open a new advanced manufacturing factory in Tracy,...

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