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Boise Cascade Invests $140 Million In Three Facilities

Boise Cascade Invests $140 Million In Three FacilitiesBoise Cascade shared additional details regarding its previously announced $140-million investments in its Alabama and Louisiana facilities....

Timberlab Collaborates With SCM On CLT

Timberlab Collaborates With SCM On CLTTimberlab confirmed its collaboration with Italian manufacturer SCM, for the supply of innovative technologies to Timberlab’s new CLT plant in Millersburg,...

Chris Brown Assumes Role As Mid-South President 

Chris Brown Assumes Role As Mid-South President  Mid-South Engineering recently bid a happy retirement to President Marc Stewart after 27 years with the company. "Leaving my daily interactions with...

Con-Vey Expands Operations In Oregon

Con-Vey Expands Operations In Oregon Con-Vey is planning an expansion of its operations with the acquisition of approximately 15 additional acres, including 150,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space....

Dieffenbacher To Supply Unilin Recycling Plant

Dieffenbacher To Supply Unilin Recycling Plant  In October 2024, Unilin and Dieffenbacher announced an agreement to introduce and further commercialize Unilin’s “Osiris” wood fiberboard recycling...

Buddy Douglas Retires From Scotch Plywood 

Buddy Douglas Retires From Scotch Plywood After 40 remarkable years in the timber industry, Buddy Douglas has officially retired as Plant Manager of Scotch Plywood. “Over his career, Buddy...

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...

Oregon Truckers File Suit Against State

Rob Freres, president of Oregon-based Freres Engineered Wood, a manufacturer of lumber, veneer, plywood and mass timber, has thrown in his support for a lawsuit filed by the Oregon Trucking Assn. and three Oregon-based trucking companies against the state of Oregon for overcharging truckers under the weight-mile tax.

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Hasslacher Enters North America

Austria-based Hasslacher group is acquiring a stake in Element5, a mass timber producer specializing in the design, manufacture and assembly of modern engineered timber buildings. Based near Toronto, Can., Element5 employs more than 100 and produces cross-laminated timber and glued laminated timber for the North American market.

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Endowment Welcomes New Board Members

U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announces that Fritz Mason, Paul Hossain and Anna Torma were elected as new directors at the organization’s fall board meeting. “Drawing upon diverse backgrounds, they each bring a distinctive perspective and unique vision. We look forward to collaborating with them to further the mission of the Endowment,” comments Pete Madden, President and CEO of the Endowment.

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FPIC At Louisiana Tech Receives Donation

Martin Sustainable Resources LLC of Alexandria, La. has donated $1 million to Louisiana Tech as a leadership gift toward construction of the University’s new Forest Products Innovation Center (FPIC), with the assurance of another $1 million to be presented by this June. The Center will be on South Campus and provide space for a transdisciplinary approach to solving the challenges…

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Kadant Completes Key Knife Acquisition

Kadant Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of Key Knife, Inc. and some of its affiliates for approximately $156 million in cash, subject to certain customary adjustments. The acquisition was financed primarily through borrowings under Kadant’s revolving credit facility. Key Knife, a global supplier of engineered knife systems for custom chipping, planing, and flaking solutions for wood product industries, is headquartered in Tualatin, Ore. with…

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PELICE 2024 Continues To Light Up Scoreboard With New Presentations

Organizers of the ninth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo announced that attendee registration is open for the event, which will be held March 14-15, 2024 at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park in downtown Atlanta, Georgia— the same location as the previous eight PELICE events…

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Third Portland TP&EE Gears Up

Organizers of the third Timber Processing & Energy Expo (TP&EE) announce that attendee registration on-line is open. TP&EE will be held September 28-30 at the Portland Exposition Center...

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Sellers Was Tenacious In Research

Sellers Was Tenacious In Research   Dr. Terry Sellers, Jr., whose specialty was adhesives for bonding wood products during his professional career, and who also wrote two ex­quisitely detailed...

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Proteak Starts Up MDF Operation

Proteak Starts Up MDF Operation  In February 2016 Proteak announced the startup of its MDF plant in Huimanguillo, Tabasco, Mexico, under the brand Tecnotabla. “With state-of-the-art technology,...

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