Roseburg
Roseburg Forest Products
continued its drive to be one of the nation’s leading
producers of wood panels with its purchase of six mills in the
southeastern United States. The mills, owned by Georgia Pacific, make particleboard
and related melamine and cut-to-size panels, and serve everyone
from furniture makers to home stores. Roseburg CEO Allyn Ford
says that most of the 750 employees at the mills in
Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina will be rehired as part
of the ownership change. The mills will be the first outside
the Northwest for Roseburg. G-P was bought last year by Koch Industries and is based
in Atlanta.
