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New OSB Project In Alabama Gains Permitting

Peak Renewables U.S. Inc. has received required permitting for the construction and operation of a greenfield 650MMSF oriented strandboard plant in Enterprise (Coffee County), Ala. Last February, the Enterprise City Council approved ordinances to convert a 300 acre property into an industrial property. Shortly thereafter, ACES Consulting Group, on behalf of Peak, submitted the permitting application to Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management (ADEM). ADEM subsequently granted permits for the various development and production processes during the latter quarter of 2024. The operation calls for SYP logs to be delivered to the site by truck, followed by three rotary drum debarkers and three stranders, two parallel single-pass rotary drum dryers (along with a Biomass Energy System using two biomass-fired combustion furnaces), two blenders for mixing liquid phenol formaldehyde resin and wax emulsion, four-layer mat forming station, multi-opening press, and finishing line. Exhaust from both dryers would be routed to a wet ESP and to an RTO. Emissions from the press would be directed through an RCO. Some early work is being done at the site. Peak Renewables operates an industrial wood pellet facility and cross-laminated timber and glulam facility in Dothan, Ala.

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Hampton Lumber Purchases Rebuilt

Atlas Holdings has entered into an agreement to sell RedBuilt, LLC to Hampton Lumber Mills, Inc. Atlas formed RedBuilt with the acquisition of the commercial division of Trus Joist from Weyerhaeuser Co. in 2009. Over the next 14 years, the company became an industry leader in the engineering, design and manufacturing of proprietary wood-based structural solutions serving the low-rise commercial construction market. The transaction is anticipated to close in the first quarter of 2024.

Peak NA, Fehr Purchase RPM

Registration is now available for the 2024 Western Wood Producers Assn. (WWPA) Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Indigo in Vancouver, Wash., April 14-16. To register for the event visit, https://www.wwpa.org/about-wwpa/annual-meeting. To take advantage of the group rate, visit the Hotel Indigo website, and use group code WWP. The deadline for the group rate is March 14, or until the room block is sold out…

WWPA Opens Annual Meeting Registration

Registration is now available for the 2024 Western Wood Producers Assn. (WWPA) Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Indigo in Vancouver, Wash., April 14-16. To register for the event visit, https://www.wwpa.org/about-wwpa/annual-meeting. To take advantage of the group rate, visit the Hotel Indigo website, and use group code WWP. The deadline for the group rate is March 14, or until the room block is sold out…

Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO Announces 2025 Dates

The Southern Forest Products Assn. (SFPA) has announced the 38th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO will return to the Music City Center in Nashville from August 6-8, 2025. “The move to Nashville in August 2023 exceeded all expectations, and we heard it over and over on the show floor and for weeks after the event from exhibitors and attendees alike,” says Eric Gee, SFPA Executive Director…

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