Northwest Hardwoods: 20-Year Project
Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Timber Processing April 2015
The cover story for the April 2015 issue of Timber Processing, Northwest Hardwoods sawmill in Eugene, Ore., represents a project that only took two decades to come to fruition: I was in the process of arranging a mill visit and article way back in 1995 when Weyerhaeuser bought the mill. The project then disappeared behind the Great Wall of W until WeyCo spun its hardwoods division off in 2011. We were happy to see veteran industry executive T.J. Rosengarth take the helm of Northwest Hardwoods when it was purchased by a private equity group, and we had been bugging him about doing a story ever since he got settled into his new office. (Interestingly, it was also about that time way back when in the mid ’90s when I first met Rosengarth: He was managing Willamette Industries’ Korpine particleboard plant in Bend, Ore., where I took one of the best accidental photobombs ever when the fish mounted on the wall behind Rosengarth looked like it went right in one of his ears and out the other.) Anyway, the Eugene hardwood sawmill mill visit and article write-up went smoothly—even if it took 20 years to happen!
RELATED ARTICLES
Collins Appoints TJ Rosengarth President & CEO
Northwest Hardwoods Reconfigures
Latest News
Plum Creek, USDA Support Promo Effort
Article by Dan Shell, Managing Editor Recent announcements dovetail nicely with the SmartLam feature article running in this issue on page 32 that details the background, current operations and future plans of the first U.S.…
Canfor Announces Acquisition Of Arkansas’ Anthony Forest Products
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1548381510056-0’); }); Canfor Corporation announces that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Anthony Forest Products Company located in El Dorado, Arkansas for a purchase price of $93.5 million US that includes…
Plum Creek Donates Lumber To Montana Habitat For Humanity Project
Plum Creek recently donated nearly 1,000 manufactured lumber studs to Habitat for Humanity of Flathead Valley. The donation will kick off construction for the two new single family, three bedroom homes in Spring Creek Estates…
Find Us On Social
Newsletter
The monthly Timber Processing Industry Newsletter reaches over 4,000 mill owners and supervisors.
Subscribe/Renew
Timber Processing is delivered 10 times per year to subscribers who represent sawmill ownership, management and supervisory personnel and corporate executives. Subscriptions are FREE to qualified individuals.
Advertise
Complete the online form so we can direct you to the appropriate Sales Representative.