As a result of several strategic developments within the company, including the recent sale of its California timberlands and purchase of 158,000 acres in Virginia and North Carolina, Roseburg Resources Co. has reviewed its organizational structure, leading to the promotion of three key managers to newly created director positions. the[Read More…]
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Georgia-Pacific Memphis Facility Supports Youth Chess Team
For several years, the Georgia‐Pacific Memphis Cellulose facility has supported the Douglass K‐8 Optional School and its STEM program in Tennessee. Part of that engagement also means support for the school’s chess class. Since it began a few years ago, the students have made big strides in learning performance, both[Read More…]
Top Three Sellers for 2017
The year 2017 was a banner year for Spring Hill Sheds. We did more business than in any other year since we’ve been open. We sold all shapes, sizes, styles, and colors of storage buildings in 2017. During the last quarter of the year, we looked back at which storage[Read More…]
Early Spring Buying Opportunity?
Let’s take a look at why this may be an early spring buying opportunity in the lumber market. As we offered in the previous column, improving macro-economic forces, supply disruptions, unexpected natural disasters, and unresolved trade policy, vis-a-vi Canadian tariffs, combined to make market swings more volatile. What if we[Read More…]
Tuff Shed Sells Structure No. 1 Million
At the end of November, Tuff Shed, headquartered in Denver, announced that it built its 1 millionth structure. It took about 36 years for the company to reach the milestone of 1 million sheds sold. Dick Keenan, a San Francisco resident and owner of Kick Ranch Vineyard in Santa Rosa,[Read More…]
HAITI BENEFIT AUCTION DONATION MADE IN HONOR OF BUILDER
On January 9, 2018, Lumbermen Associates of Bristol, Pennsylvania, held its 20th annual Shed and Gazebo Builders Breakfast in Blue Ball, Pennsylvania. Lumbermen’s is a wholesale building products distributor serving the outdoor storage building industry in Pennsylvania and surrounding states for over 30 years. At the breakfast, over 60 shed[Read More…]
Roseburg Names New Managers, Director
Roseburg Forest Products named three people to new leadership roles in January. Tony Ramm has been promoted to general manager of plywood, Steve Courtney will join the Roseburg team as the director of solid wood resource procurement, and Phil Odom has been named business manager for plywood and lumber business[Read More…]
Builder Welcomes New Year with Auction, Giveaway
Helmuth Builders in Virginia is willing to try some unique ways to market and sell its sheds. To kick off 2018, Helmuth held its first-ever Shed Auction & Giveaway. The company says more than 120 folks braved the cold New Year’s Day temperatures, along with 100 online bidders, for a[Read More…]
SouthernCarlson Appoints New Chairman/CEO
, a distributor of fasteners and packaging to the construction industry headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, has named Kenneth D. Sweder to the position of chairman and CEO, the company reports. Sweder replaces Jim Whitley, who is retiring from day-to-day responsibilities. “We are pleased to welcome Ken to SouthernCarlson,” say Sandy[Read More…]
Video: Custom-built Log Shed
Shed builders are dedicated to their craft, but they also know it’s important to go above and beyond for their customers. That’s why many builders offer customized sheds. The folks from Mid Coast Shed Company in Bowdoinham, Maine, “take pride in [their] workmanship and strive to please each and every[Read More…]
