MARCH 2021
Cover: GP Turns It Up At Albany
ALBANY, Georgia – When Georgia-Pacific Lumber decided to build three new sawmills, two at brownfield sites and one completely greenfield, the industry watched closely. Partnered with BID Group, the first two startups were not without challenges, in Talladega, Alabama and Warrenton, Georgia, but were overall great successes, especially aided in 2020 by aggressive lumber prices just as the mills hit their stride.
Inside This Issue
The Issues: Georgia-Pacific Finishes Strong
When the largest privately held company in the U.S., Koch Industries, purchased publicly-held Georgia-Pacific Corp. in 2005, the lumber leadership at GP who came to Koch with the deal soon found out that the Koch business philosophy brought long-term vision, profit reinvestment in operations and no limitations that typically govern a public company. Hello cash flow!
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief, Timber Processing
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Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Timber Processing
LOG MERCHANDISING
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following companies submitted editorial profiles and images to complement their advertisements placed in the Timber Processing March 2021 issue:
- BID Group
- FiberPro
- Linden Fabricating Co.
- Mebor
- Mellot Manufacturing Co.
- Metal Detectors Inc.
- Telco Sensors
- Timber Automation
- TS Manufacturing
- Les ACIER J.P. Inc.
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- Russia’s Atlant Orders USNR Line
- Resolute Forest Products Implements New Waste Chippers
- Schwaiger Adds Sennebogen Unit
- Miloptic Acquires Automation Industries
- PotlatchDeltic Picks OPER8 Platform
- Derome Enhances Drying Program
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- Hardwood Forestry Fund Receives Donation
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GP Turns It Up At Albany
Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Associate Editor, Timber Processing
ALBANY, Georgia – When Georgia-Pacific Lumber decided to build three new sawmills, two at brownfield sites and one completely greenfield, the industry watched closely. Partnered with BID Group, the first two startups were not without challenges, in Talladega, Alabama and Warrenton, Georgia, but were overall great successes, especially aided in 2020 by aggressive lumber prices just as the mills hit their stride. Then it came time to build, from the ground up, Albany Lumber in Albany, Georgia. The groundbreaking for the $150 million, 320,000 sq. ft. facility was in February 2018. GP and BID Group collaborated on a similar turnkey formula. Mill leadership was getting its collective feet wet, spending time training at the other two startups, gathering information to make Albany stronger. And then things ground slowly to a halt as the coronavirus pandemic ransacked the world about a year after the groundbreaking and a few months after lumber production began.
Because of the pandemic, information sharing has taken many forms, including small group chats with masks.
Albany Lumber’s dimension lumber capacity is north of 300MMBF.
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