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Stay up to date with the latest North America updates from the global wood industryA veneer plant, opened 40 years ago in White City, Oregon, has been owned by Boise since 1976. Five years ago a fire levelled its sister plant in nearby Medford and this prompted re-tooling and...
In a linked chain of events, plunging pulp chip prices have made possible increasing veneer raw material supplies for Potlatch, Inc in Oregon and Idaho.
The output of the company’s...
Clarke’s Sheet Metal has seen some big changes in its 50 year history. It is located in Eugene, Oregon, once the heart of the state’s wood manufacturing industry where it could serve...
Five years ago a hangover spark from an earlier dryer fire kindled flames that raced through Boise-Cascade’s plywood plant in Medford, Oregon.
On the last day of operations before a 1998...
Tolko Industries owns 75% of Meadow Lake OSB Ltd Partnership and manages its new mill in central Saskatchewan. It is a rather greenfield operation but a nearby pulp mill and sawmill have used...
Snowfall is measured in metres in the winter time in the small valley in Golden, British Columbia, surrounded by towering peaks of the Rocky and Purcell mountains. The extreme...
Hope for Temple in high quality markets
Business is changing even for one of the newer particleboard mills in the US; Temple Inland’s, in the optimistically named town of Hope, Arkansas, in the US Southeast. And Hope has another claim...
Up to the minute line doubles production
Weyerhaeuser Company’s new US$80m Louisiana particleboard line at Simsboro, near Ruston, Louisiana, is in successful start-up after 16 months’ construction work. Classified as a modernisation,...
A team effort to achieve potential
The Del-Tin Fiber MDF plant near El Dorado in southern Arkansas, an imposing installation, is gradually working its way up to its full 150 million ft2 annual production of its trade marked...
