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IWP Expands WindsorONE Distribution
International Wood Products, Clackamas, Or., has expanded its distribution agreement with Windsor Mill to include WindsorONE Protected S1S2E and S4SSE trim boards, specialty boards, traditional …
R.P. Lumber Acquiring Alexander Lumber, Uniting Long-Time Competitors
R.P. Lumber Co., Inc. continues to grow with the pending acquisition of long-time competitor Alexander Lumber Co. Headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, Alexander Lumber is a …
US LBM Makes More Deals
US LBM has acquired two more LBM businesses and added a greenfield location. It first purchased Arrowhead Stairs & Trim, Farmers Branch, Tx. Arrowhead president …
Dealer Profile: Washington’s E&E Lumber
Remember—of course you do—the day the distressed astronauts called out, “Houston, we’ve got a problem?” To translate to a different dilemma recently facing another city, …
West Fraser Picks Up Near-New SYP Mill
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., has agreed to purchase two-year-old SYP sawmill Angelina Forest Products, Lufkin, Tx., for $300 million. The state-of-the-art mill …
Roseburg Grows Timberlands
Roseburg, Roseburg, Or., has completed the purchase of approximately 30,000 acres of timberland in the southern U.S. from Forest Investment Associates, Atlanta, Ga. The properties …
G-P Modernizing Texas Mills
Georgia-Pacific’s Pineland Lumber Complex, located in Pineland, Tx., will undergo $120 million in additions and improvements in an overall modernization effort that will also increase …
SRS Purchases Wimsatt
SRS Distribution, McKinney, Tx., it has acquired Wimsatt Building Materials and its eight distribution locations across Michigan and Ohio. Headquartered in Wayne, Mi., Wimsatt was …
Machinery, Tooling Giants Merge
USNR and Wood Fiber Group are merging to create the world’s most comprehensive supplier of the equipment, technology and essential tooling for modern wood processing …
Dealer Profile: South Dakota’s Buffalo Hardware
You can take the kid out of Buffalo, but you can’t take Buffalo out of the kid. And that kid, Sam Olson, is the poster …
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IWP Expands WindsorONE Distribution
International Wood Products, Clackamas, Or., has expanded its distribution agreement with Windsor Mill to include WindsorONE Protected S1S2E and S4SSE trim boards, specialty boards, traditional …
R.P. Lumber Acquiring Alexander Lumber, Uniting Long-Time Competitors
R.P. Lumber Co., Inc. continues to grow with the pending acquisition of long-time competitor Alexander Lumber Co. Headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, Alexander Lumber is a …
US LBM Makes More Deals
US LBM has acquired two more LBM businesses and added a greenfield location. It first purchased Arrowhead Stairs & Trim, Farmers Branch, Tx. Arrowhead president …
Dealer Profile: Washington’s E&E Lumber
Remember—of course you do—the day the distressed astronauts called out, “Houston, we’ve got a problem?” To translate to a different dilemma recently facing another city, …
West Fraser Picks Up Near-New SYP Mill
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., has agreed to purchase two-year-old SYP sawmill Angelina Forest Products, Lufkin, Tx., for $300 million. The state-of-the-art mill …
Roseburg Grows Timberlands
Roseburg, Roseburg, Or., has completed the purchase of approximately 30,000 acres of timberland in the southern U.S. from Forest Investment Associates, Atlanta, Ga. The properties …
