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German Firm Debuts Wooden Turbine Blades

German Firm Debuts Wooden Turbine Blades Wind turbine blade manufacturer Voodin Blade Technology GmbH recently announced the first prototype installation of its 19.3 m wooden wind turbine blades on...

PELICE 2024 Covers The Bases & Then Some: Martin, Gray, Dieffenbacher Start It Off

PELICE 2024 Covers The Bases & Then Some: Martin, Gray, Dieffenbacher Start It OffThe ninth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) set a participation record...

Hood Industries Goes With Con-Vey For Plywood Finishing Line

Hood Industries Goes With Con-Vey For Plywood Finishing Line Con-Vey, a leading provider of innovative automation and material handling solutions, has announced its collaboration with Hood...

Roseburg Names Tony Ramm Senior VP Of Manufacturing

Roseburg Names Tony Ramm Senior VP Of Manufacturing Roseburg is pleased to announce that Tony Ramm has accepted the role of Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, effective April 8, 2024. Ramm...

Roseburg Names Orozco To Direct Strategic Business

Roseburg has annouced that Nadine Orozco has been promoted to Director of Strategic Business Development. She has served as manager of strategic business development since 2022, and has been deeply involved in key company projects, including the recent sale of Roseburg’s Simsboro, La., particleboard plant to Kronospan and the company’s historic $700 million investment in Oregon manufacturing.

Kalesnikoff Announces New Mass Timber Plant

Kalesnikoff Mass Timber announced it will build a $34 million mass timber facility in West Kootenays, British Columbia. It will create up to 90 jobs.

Hoffman Companies Acquires Besse Forest Products Group

The Hoffmann Family of Companies (HFOC), a Florida-based family-owned private equity firm, has acquired Besse Forest Products Group, the longstanding Michigan-based family-run company with 10 manufacturing facilities, including four sawmills, a lumber drying concentration yard, four veneer mills and a cut-to-size plywood mill.

Godfrey Forest Products Announces New OSB Mill For Maine

Godfrey Forest Products Announces New OSB Mill For MaineBy Rich Donnell     Godfrey Forest Products, with multi-investor backing, has announced plans to build an 800MMSF annual production capacity...

Boise Announces New Investments

Boise Cascade has announced new investments in Alabama and Louisiana in support of its engineered wood products (EWP) growth strategy.

Hunt Modernizes Lathe Operations

In a significant step toward modernizing their production line, Hunt Forest Products in Pollock, La. is receiving new lathe controls and BlockLogix optimization from USNR, as well as a Bosch valve upgrade to the lathe spindles and replacing the lower portion of the core drive.

Daniels, Pannell Join PotlatchDeltic

PotlatchDeltic Corp. has announced that Ryan Daniels and Bobby Pannell have joined the Wood Products division, with Daniels serving as Director of Operations, responsible for leading the manufacturing teams at the six lumber facilities and the St. Maries plywood mill, and Pannell serving as…

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Egger Starts Up Saturation Line

Wood-based materials manufacturer, Egger Wood Products, recently completed construction of a $22 million decorative paper saturation line at its Lexington, NC facility. The new line will infuse decorative papers with resin adhesive necessary for…

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Acres Partners With Forisk

Acres, a data-driven land research platform that supports fast, informed decision making, is partnering with Forisk Consulting, a leader in analyzing timber markets and wood baskets, to visualize timber data for both companies’ clients. This collaboration…

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Velarde Joins AFRY Team

AFRY Management Consulting has announced that Guillermo Velarde will lead the Wood Products and Surfaces Team in North America. Guillermo has been named a Principal Consultant at the AFRY’s New York office. He has more than 15 years of…

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Siempelkamp Expands Leadership Team

Siempelkamp Expands Leadership Team The Siempelkamp Group is realigning its Management Board to include seven members to bundle market-oriented core competencies together and integrate a modern...

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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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