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US Existing plants, December 2020 Company
Arauco North America
Location Albany OR
Bennetsville Grayling MI
Woodgrain Composites
Collins Products LLC Dakota Panel
La Grande OR
Klamath Falls OR Rapid City SD
Egger Wood Products LLC Lexington Florida Plywood Inc
Kronospan Masonite
Plummer Products Greenville FLA Oxford AL
Wahpeton ND
Post Falls ID Roseburg Forest Products Dillard OR
Missoula MA Simsboro
Taylorsville MS Diboll TX
Timber Products Company Medford OR Sutter Creek
na
SO/Siemp MO MO
Conti/Siemp
MO/Compak MO/WIW MO
MO/WIW
5 7 4 8 8
10 4 4 4 5
18 9 8
24 53
36.5 8
24 16 24
Press Type/Make MO/WIW MO/WIW
MO/WIW MO/WIW MO/WIW MO/WIW C/Siemp SO/na
Width ft 4 6
10
5 4 5
na 10 5
Length ft 24 26
120
18 24 24 na
43.7 24
512
000m/yr
253 584 800
428 248 159 600
30
550 80
150 133 496 354 496 327 266 207 375
6536
Canada Existing plants, December 2020 Company Panolam
Uniboard
Location
Huntsville ON Lac Megantic
Sayabec Val d'Or
Press Type/Make Conti/Siemp Conti/Siemp Conti/Siemp
MO
Width mm 2515 2850 3140 3140 2515 2500
Length m 14000
21000 ) 38700 ) 24600 ) 35800 ) 6100
000m/yr 257
910
644 363
2174
Mexico Existing plants, December 2020 Company Arauco
Duraplay de Parral, SA de CV Industrias Emman
Maderas Conglomerados Masisa
Ponderplay, SA de CV
BestBoard Impulsora S.A. De C.V. Taosa Paneles, SA de CV
Location Durango
Zitacuaro Parral
Ocotlan San Juan
Chihuahua Durango Tijuana Ocotlan
Press Type/Make SO/Siemp SO/Bison MO/BVH
SO
Conti/Bison
na
na
Width ft 2500 2500 2460 2550 1250 na
246 na
120 na
Length ft 9800
14600 6150
14800 7300 na
26000 na
12000 na
000m/yr
155 184 150 80 71
219 84 30 24
997
This project has now been added to the main listings. The other two large scale particleboard
investments in the US were Kronospan’s Eastaboga plant in Alabama and Sonae Arauco’s Grayling, Michigan plant. Both went online in 2019 and added 550,000m3 and 800,000m3 in the US.
of particleboard capacity
Roseburg Forest Products is closing its Dillard Particleboard plant in Oregon as part of a larger strategic reorganisation of the company’s western operations. The announcement was made at the end of August and was expected to be completed by the end of October. The shutdown removes a particleboard capacity of 496,000m3
from an older mill which had
operated since 1965.
The closure is part of a wider multi- million-dollar investment in new technology at its other western plants to update and automate processes and further improve safety for employees. We await further details of the
company’s overall investment plans and what shape that may take for its other
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