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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.
Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States. [1] A privately held company, it was co-founded in 1949 by R. H. Emmerson and his son, A. A. "Red" Emmerson, the long-term CEO, and A. A. Emmerson's sons George and Mark are now president and CEO.
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]
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.
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In 2019, Aircraft Spruce opened two new facilities with Aircraft Spruce Midwest operating in a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m 2) facility in West Chicago, Illinois, and Aircraft Spruce Alaska in a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2) building in Wasilla, Alaska. [2] Ron Alexander's Alexander Aeroplane Company was purchased and integrated into the ...
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The company was founded by Kenneth W. Ford in 1936 as Roseburg Lumber in Roseburg, Oregon. [1] In 1979, it acquired 323,000 acres of California forest land from Kimberly-Clark. [3] In the early 1980s it was renamed to Roseburg Forest Products. In 1987, Roseburg acquired California timberland from Diamond International. [4]