Woodgrain Millwork Buys Idaho Sawmill
Woodgrain Millwork Inc., which makes doors, mouldings and windows, announced Thursday that it bought the sawmill from Gem Forest Products. Woodgrain Millwork gained control of the equipment and lumber on the site as part of the purchase. Other details about the transaction were not disclosed.
The mill closed last month, said Lt. Gov. Brad Little. In February, Woodgrain Millwork employees will begin two to three months of work processing the mill’s existing inventory, the company said in a news release. Crews will take several more months renovating the mill before it begins operating permanently later in the year. “This is great news for Idaho and particularly for my little home town,” Little said.
The mill has had a tumultuous history since 2009, when Montana timber entrepreneur Dick Vinson bought the property and cobbled together its equipment under the name Emerald Forest Products. The mill cost $4 million in federal stimulus money and at least $7 million of Vinson’s own money. But it never operated efficiently enough to be profitable, and the mill closed until 2014, when Gem Forest Products bought the foreclosed property.
A mill employee lost his arm at the shoulder last July while operating equipment. The sawmill is on property where Boise Cascade Co. once operated a larger sawmill. Its closing caused hundreds of employees to leave Emmett to seek work elsewhere. Woodgrain Millwork plans to use the Emmett mill to supply lumber to its Fruitland mill.
From the Idaho Statesman: idahostatesman.com.
Latest News
California Lumber Tax Dropped
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1548381510056-0’); }); A proposed 1% additional sales tax on selected lumber products that was part of Governor Jerry Brown’s attempt to close a state budget gap has been dropped, much to the relief…
Sustainable Northwest Wood Debuts Dramatic New ‘Blue Pine’
A new stock of distinctively hued pine has arrived at Sustainable Northwest Wood. The Portland depot for sustainably harvested wood is now stocking Campground Blue Pine, a salvaged wood with a story to tell. Blue…
Resolute Forest Products Idles Oakhill Sawmill
Roughly 100 employees at the Resolute Forest Products sawmill near Oakhill will be out of work as the effect brought by the parent company’s decision to indefinitely stop operations at the newsprint facility in Queens…
B.C. Forest Board Says Future Timber Supply At Risk
British Columbia’s independent forest practices watchdog says future timber supplies in the province are at stake and the Liberal government needs to get moving on management plans for pine beetle and fire damaged forests. A…
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.