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A wireless grapple scale improves wood recovery program at Norbord OSB mill. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The recovering U.S. housing market has pushed profit margins up to stratospheric heights for oriented strand board (OSB) producers, whose engineered wood panels are outperforming lumber in the red-hot forest products sector. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Meadow Lake Oriented Strand Board (OSB) has received two awards for excellence from its parent company, Tolko Industries Ltd. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Lumber producer Tolko Industries Ltd. says it will reopen its Athabasca mill in Slave Lake, Alta. - four years after it was shut down due to poor market conditions. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A new guide to cross-laminated timber (CLT) applications in the U.S. is now available. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Norbord Inc. says it earned $72 million in 2012, more than half of it in the fourth quarter. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Operations restarted on Tuesday, January 22 at Tolko's Meadow Lake OSB mill in Saskatchewan after a fire started in the bulk storage facility adjacent to the main production area around 3am local time on Friday, January 18, 2013. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Tolko says it is hopeful that its OSB plant in Meadow Lake, Sask. will reopen soon after a fire on Friday. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Residents in a small northeastern B.C. community are fighting a mill's plan to use a potentially toxic resin to manufacture particleboard. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Dieffenbacher of Germany and Carmanah Design and Manufacturing Inc. of Surrey, B.C., announced the signing of a Cooperation Agreement for the supply of disc and ring stranding systems to engineered wood applications outside of North America. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Georgia-Pacific has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of the Temple-Inland Building Products business from International Paper Co. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Samuel Strapping Systems, Canada's leading supplier of industrial packaging and shipping solutions, recently partnered with Richmond Plywood to improve their product stenciling equipment. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Canfor Corporation announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Louisiana-Pacific Corporation to sell Canfor's 50 percent share in the Peace Valley Oriented Strand Board (OSB) joint venture in Fort St. John, B.C. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Dieffenbacher Group is now offering its North American customers support throughout the entire lifecycle of their wood panel plants through its new subsidiary Dieffenbacher Customer Support, based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Growing U.S. new home construction helped Norbord Inc. more than double its earnings from the second to third quarter of 2012. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Uniboard announced the return of its Excel MDF grade brand name to reflect the latest improvement made to the Classic grade. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Coalition for Fair Trade of Hardwood Plywood (CFTHP), an association of U.S. manufacturers of hardwood and decorative plywood, announced that it has filed an unfair trade petition regarding imports of the product from China. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Auto parts from wood that are strong, light-weight and low-cost is the aim of a new applied research project. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
In an all cash deal, Uniboard Canada and its North American particleboard, MDF, thermally fused melamine and laminate flooring facilities is being sold to Kaycan Ltd. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
International Wood Markets Group has announced its Wood Markets 2013: The Solid Wood Products Outlook – 2013-2017 is now available. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
