The Georgia-Pacific Alabama River Cellulose mill in Perdue Hill, Alabama, received Conservation Certification from the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) earlier this year. The certification program recognizes company efforts to create, restore, and enhance wildlife habitat on their lands. The mill worked on the certification process for nearly two years, forming[Read More…]
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Great Southern Wood Enhances Employee Health, Vacation, and Education Benefits Package
Great Southern Wood Preserving Inc., best known for its YellaWood®brand products, has begun an active and ongoing process to increase employee benefits by reinvesting its tax savings in its people, the company has announced. The company, founded in Abbeville, Alabama, expects full implementation to take place in 2018. In late[Read More…]
Roseburg Hires Roanoke Timberlands Manager
Roseburg reports that Pete Hancock has accepted the position of Roanoke Timberlands Manager, effective May 7, 2018. In this role, Hancock will oversee the day-to-day harvest and land management activities on Roseburg’s 158,000-acre fee land base in North Carolina and Virginia. A 2001 graduate of Virginia Tech where he earned[Read More…]
Classic Planed Line Re-opens in Finland
Stora Enso Wood Products division will re-open its classic planed line at its Varkaus sawmill in Finland this April, the company reports. The planing line was closed in January 2013 due to decreasing demand, but the combination of the new laminated veneer lumber (LVL) production and the planing opens up[Read More…]
Georgia-Pacific Building New Softwood Lumber Plant
Georgia-Pacific will build a new softwood lumber production facility in Warren County, Georgia, on property adjacent to its existing lumber mill, the company reports. Construction of the $135 million, 340,000‐square-foot, technologically advanced plant is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2018 with an anticipated startup in spring 2019. Georgia‐Pacific’s[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…]
Forest Regeneration Efforts Making an Impact in Southern Sweden
Södra, Sweden’s largest forest-owner association, reports that the volume of hardwood in southern Swedish forests has risen by nearly 106 million cubic feet per year since 1993. This means there are about 120 million more hardwoods in Götaland now than 25 years ago, based on Sweden National Forest Inventory data.[Read More…]
Roseburg Reorganizes Marketing, National Accounts Structure
Roseburg says it has reorganized its marketing and national accounts structure in anticipation of the upcoming retirement of Mark McLean, who currently serves as director of both functions for the company. Instead of replacing McLean upon his retirement in spring 2018, the company has opted to reassign his responsibilities, effective[Read More…]
Building Materials Wholesaler Moves into New Office
Dairyman’s Supply Company moved into a new office building at the end of August at its Mayfield, Kentucky location, the company reports. Dairyman’s is a wholesaler that supplies building materials to retail lumber yards and building centers in the Southeast. That includes materials used by shed builders. “As pleased as[Read More…]
Weyerhaeuser Names Stockfish Senior Vice President, Timberlands
Weyerhaeuser, one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands and manufacturer of wood products, has appointed Devin Stockfish as senior vice president, Timberlands, the company reports. The change will take effect Jan. 1, 2018. Stockfish will replace Rhonda Hunter, who has elected to retire after 30 years with the[Read More…]
