by Web Editor | Nov 21, 2016 | News
Oregon’s Rosboro Announces Its Sale, Starting With Timberlands Wood products manufacturer Rosboro, one of Springfield’s oldest employers, has sold its timber holdings, and the rest of the firm, including its large mill on Main Street in Springfield, could be sold by...
by Web Editor | Sep 2, 2016 | News
Oregon’s Hampton Lumber Acquires Banks Lumber Mill Hampton Lumber has acquired the assets of the Banks Lumber Mill, just months after the Washington County mill had laid off its employees and ceased operations. Portland-based Hampton plans to upgrade the mill...
by Web Editor | Aug 5, 2016 | News
Fording a flood of cheaper lumber imported from Canada, local lumber interests met with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden Tuesday to jointly call for a new trade agreement or risk whittling the industry at home. “What we need is a fair system that allows individuals and...
by Web Editor | Apr 25, 2016 | News
Solid as steel. Sturdy as concrete. Cross-laminated timber carries these claims and hopes for boosting Oregon’s wood products industry. The engineered wood product is made by gluing together layers of boards, such as 2-by-4s, 2-by-6s and 2-by-8s. The resulting panels...
by Web Editor | Apr 18, 2016 | News
Oregon’s Warm Springs Forest Products Sawmill Closing Fifty years after acquiring a lumber mill on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, tribal leaders announced the permanent closure and impending bankruptcy and liquidation of the Warm Springs Forest Products...
