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Aircraft Spruce was housed in Fullerton, California, from 1965 until 1997 in a historic Fullerton former citrus packing house. It then moved to a 62,000-square-foot (5,800 m 2) facility in Corona, California. Aircraft Spruce East moved to a new 52,000 sq ft (4,800 m 2) facility in Peachtree City, Georgia, in 2004.
American Forest Products Corporation (AFPC) was a Fortune 500 [1] company initially producing wooden boxes and shipping materials but expanding into the timber, sawmill, and lumber industries. The company began in the 1920s and operated under the same leadership until it was sold to the Bendix Corporation in 1969.
Northwest lumber mills, however, were never able to meet Europe's demand for spruce. [3] [4] The government wanted a monthly production of 10 million board feet (24,000 m 3) of spruce, but before the division was activated, only 2 million board feet (4,700 m 3) were produced monthly. [5]
In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and ...
Interfor produces lumber for residential, commercial and industrial applications. [5] It uses several species of wood in its products, including Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar, Ponderosa pine, Lodgepole pine and Southern Yellow Pine. It markets European Spruce and Red Pine lumber through a sales agreement with Ilim Timber. [6]
Black spruce stand at Arctic Chalet, Inuvik, NT Spruce-pine-fir (SPF) is a classification of lumber that can be traded on commodities exchanges.. In Canada, and parts of the United States, most of the spruce tree species, pine tree species, and fir tree species share similar physical and mechanical characteristics, to the point where lumber derived from any of these species are interchangeable ...
Simpson was a prominent forest products company in Northern California for much of the 20th century, after first acquiring California timberland in 1945, eventually managing more than 450,000 acres of forest in California, in what was then known as the Redwood Division and is now mostly part of spinoff Green Diamond Resource Company.
The company was founded by Kenneth W. Ford in 1936 as Roseburg Lumber in Roseburg, Oregon. [1] In the early 1980s it was renamed to Roseburg Forest Products. It sold off about 45,000 acres (18,000 ha) of timberlands to Sierra Pacific Industries in Northern California.