January 2025

COVER: Annual Directory & Buyers’ Guide

Also: Oregon’s Freres Engineered Wood has modernized its scarfing line in its Mass Ply Panel (MPP) operation, and continues to make production enhancements on its other manufacturing lines as well.

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FRERES INVESTS IN NEW TECH SYSTEMS THAT INNOVATE VENEER HANDLING, MPP OUTPUT

Freres Engineered Wood continues commitment to new technology and products for the future.

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UPDATE
  • Weyco Plans Timberland Mill
  • More Time Allowed To Prep For EUDR
  • Hexion Purchases AI-Driven Smartech

    PROJECTS
    • Dryer Replacement Optimizes Performance At Williams Lake Plywood
    • Arauco Plans MDF to USB Conversion
    SUPPLY LINES
    • McClure Steps Down at Altec
    • Raute Beefs Up NA Leadership
    • IWT-Moldrup Reports On NW Projects
    • Floyd/BE&E Plan Kentucky Expansion
    • Comact Reveals New Leadership
    CLIPPINGS
    • Georgia-Pacific Names SR VP of Operations
    • GP Will Redevelop Headquarters Site
    • UK’s Last Coal Plant Goes Down
    • California Pellet Mills Edge Ahead
    WHAT'S NEW
      • Block Enhancement
      • 50th Anniversary
      • Electric Spindle
      • Emission Testing

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      Martco Rises To The Occasion

      Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief, Panel World

      When we look back at 2024, what will the panel industry say? It was okay, in spots, nothing to brag about? Before we leave it behind entirely, just to refresh your memory, here were a few of the highlights:

      ● Hampton Lumber purchased RedBuilt from Atlas Holdings, which had formed RedBuilt with the acquisition of the commercial division of Trus Joist from Weyerhaeuser in 2009.
      ● Walter Jarck, whose career in the forest products industry spanned 65 years, and ranged from the development of logging machinery to engineered wood products, died January 3 at age 92.
      ● Boise Cascade announced investments in I-joist and LVL production at its Thorsby, Ala. mill, and major machinery upgrades at its plywood mill in Oakdale, La.
      ● Dr. Werner Pankoke, who directed the growth and technology innovations of his family’s panel machinery manufacturing business, Hymmen, died at age 85.
      ● Siempelkamp sold the once-popular KüstersPress and ContiPress technologies to Sund Fibertech.
      ● Longtime builder and developer of OSB operations, John Godfrey, announced his plan to build an 800MMSF brownfield OSB plant in Jay, Maine.
      ● Roseburg closed its particleboard mill in Missoula, Mont., marking the company’s exit from the particleboard manufacturing business.
      ● The ninth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) set an attendance record from the structural and non- structural wood products sectors and featured 35 presentations and 100 exhibitors in Atlanta in mid-March.
      ● Australian Panels ordered a new MDF plant for its Mont Gambier location.
      ● Roseburg reported that its new MDF components plant was well into construction at Riddle, Ore., to be followed by construction of a new MDF plant in Riddle.
      ● Kronospan acquired the particleboard facility from Woodgrain in Island City, Ore.
      ● Besse Forest Products closed several hardwood and veneer plywood plants in Wisconsin, not long after the company was purchased by the Hoffman Family of Companies.
      ● RoyOMartin produced its first board at its new OSB plant in Corrigan, Texas, known as Corrigan II, having started up the first OSB plant in Corrigan in 2018.
      ● U.S. wood products interests, and numerous Congressmen, voiced con- cerns about the pending EU Deforestation Regulation over possible impacts on U.S. product supply chain and timberlands management, leading to the delay of the EUDR by a year from the European Commission.
      ● Timberlab Holdings said it was building a cross-laminated timber plant in Millersburg, Ore.
      ● Dieffenbacher acquired longtime Italian family-owned Pagnoni Impianti.
      ● Hexion, a producer of adhesives and performance materials solutions, acquired Smartech, known as a cutting-edge technology company at the forefront of AI- driven manufacturing solutions.
      ● Weyerhaeuser announced its plan to invest $500 million to build a new TimberStrand engineered wood product facility near Monticello and Warren, Ark. with an annual production capacity of 10 million cubic feet, and with the goal of starting operations in 2027.

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