News & Updates
Roseburg Personnel Changes At Dillard Lumber, Medford MDF, Riddle Plywood
Roseburg Personnel Changes At Dillard Lumber, Medford MDF, Riddle PlywoodRoseburg Forest Products has made key personnel decisions at three of its wood processing facilities in Oregon. Kendrick...
New OSB Project In Alabama Gains Permitting
New OSB Project In Alabama Gains PermittingPeak Renewables U.S. Inc. has received required permitting for the construction and operation of a greenfield 650MMSF oriented strandboard plant in...
Loan Program Aims For Wood Processing Facilities To Help Reduce Wildfire Threats
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack has unveiled a new program to support American wood processing facilities.U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack has...
Freres Fire Response Lawsuit Dismissed
Freres Fire Response Lawsuit Dismissed A federal judge has ruled against Freres Lumber Co. and subsidiary Freres Timber of Lyons, Ore., dismissing the company’s lawsuit against the U.S. Forest...
McClure Steps Down From Altec
McClure Steps Down From AltecAfter a remarkable 50-year career, Allan McClure has stepped down from his role as General Manager of Altec Manufacturing, effective December 31, 2024. “Those familiar...
Arauco Plans MDF to OSB Conversion
Arauco Plans MDF to OSB ConversionChile-based Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. (Arauco) has selected Dieffenbacher to supply an OSB plant to replace an existing MDF line at its Trupan site in...
BE&E Purchases Conveying, Fabrication From BID
BID Group and Biomass Engineering & Equipment (BE&E) announced a strategic supply and outsourcing partnership, in which BE&E will acquire the Vibrapro brand and manufacturing operations located in Boise, Id., and the BID Group fabrication plant in Greenville, Ky…
Dieffenbacher Emission Control Systems
Dieffenbacher’s emission control solutions include emission measurements and dryer and press emission control systems. Emission measurements help plant operators understand which emissions are present and determine the type and amount of emissions. For example, using state-of-the-art methods, uncomplicated in-house emission measurements can be taken on stacks downstream of the dryer or the press exhaust system…
Fletcher Building Orders Fine OSB Plant
New Zealand’s Fletcher Building Ltd. has ordered a complete plant for the production of Fine OSB from German machine manufacturer Dieffenbacher. The plant will be built at Fletcher Building’s Laminex site in Taupo, in the center of the country’s North Island. The new plant will include Dieffenbacher new belt dryer. The belt dryer is one example of how Dieffenbacher…
Dates Announced For Ninth PELICE
The next Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) will be held March 14-15, 2024, again at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. PELICE is hosted every other year by Panel World magazine and Georgia Research Institute. This will be the ninth PELICE since its inception 2008…
Six Years After Startup Katerra Digs Too Deep Of A Hole
A “Silicon Valley” startup company that intended to redefine the methods of operation of the conventional housing and building construction industry has gone bankrupt and appears to…
Happy 25th Birthday Chopin Plywood
RoyOMartin commemorated 25 years of operations at its plywood manufacturing facility in Chopin, La. with a ceremony featuring a look back at the beginning stages of the plant and the impact it has had on the company and community since its inception…
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