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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...

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...

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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...

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Union Pacific Buys Norfolk Southern

Union Pacific Buys Norfolk SouthernUnion Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announced an agreement to create America’s first transcontinental railroad. The companies will seamlessly connect...

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FLAMEX Names New President

FLAMEX Inc. announced Tony Thomas as its new President, succeeding Allen Wagoner after 13 years at that post. Thomas has been with the company for almost 32 years and has been serving as Vice President. Ed Pridgen assumes the role as Vice President in addition to his position as MINFOG Product Manager…

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American Securities Acquires Hexion

Hexion Holdings Corp. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by affiliates of American Securities LLC. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2022, following and conditioned upon the closing of the company’s previously announced sale of its epoxy business to Westlake Chemical Corp…

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Roseburg Goes For LVL In SC

Roseburg Goes For LVL In SCOregon-based Roseburg Forest Products will expand its operations in the Southeastern U.S. with construction of a new engineered wood products plant in Chester, SC. “This...

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Settlement Looks Good For Huber

Settlement Looks Good For Huber  Huber Engineered Woods LLC (HEW) reports it has “achieved” a negotiated settlement with Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC in the patent infringement lawsuit...

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