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– On 27 June 2011, the US-American particleboard and plywood manufacturer Roseburg Forest Products Inc., Roseburg, Oregon, announced the closure of two production sites in South Carolina. The two plants involved are the Russellville particleboard works, which are equipped with a 5 x 24 ft multi-daylight press configured for an annual capacity of roughly 330,000 m³, and the coatings and cutting-to-size plant in Orangeburg which was only taken over in August 2007. Production at both plants is probably to be run down by the end of August. Roughly 125 employees are affected by the disinvestment, with each plant accounting for approximately half of that number. Chuck Ulik, COO at Roseburg, justified the closure of the two plants to various US-American daily newspapers with the continuing difficult market situation, increasing cost pressures and restricted production possibilities. He went on to say that cost-cutting measures implemented by Roseburg in recent years at both plants had not sufficed to compensate for declining demand and the consequent deteriorating profit situation resulting from surplus capacity.
The closure of the Russellville and Orangeburg plants followed the takeover by Roseburg of the particleboard plant in Simsboro, Louisiana, from the Canadian company Flakeboard Co. Ltd., Markham, Ontario, which was only agreed at the beginning of June 2011. That plant is equipped with a continuous production line commissioned in August 2002 boasting an annual capacity of roughly 530,000 m³, of which roughly 125,000 m³ can be coated on the 5x24 ft short-cycle press. With that takeover and the announcement of the two disinvestments, Roseburg has proceeded further with the restructuring measures which have been in progress for a long time now in south-eastern USA. The Holy Hill MDF plant had been closed in October 2008 and the cutting-to-size site in Eupora, Mississippi, was abandoned in May 2009. In October 2010 there followed the closure of the particleboard works in Vienna, Georgia. After those disinvestments, Roseburg is only represented in south-eastern USA with its Simsboro site, the raw-particleboard works in Taylorsville and Louisville (both Mississippi) and the coatings and cutting-to-size plant in Oxford, Mississippi. In contrast, production operations in South Carolina and Georgia were given up completely. Parallel to that, Roseburg has revised its sales structures. The former structure of regional offices and regional sales offices has been dispensed with. A regional business office in Atlanta, Georgia, is now responsible for south-eastern USA, which was previously worked through a regional office in Oxford and a regional sales office in Duluth, Georgia.
Roseburg will in future achieve a total annual capacity of roughly 1.3bn sqft (Basis 3/8”), or 2.3m m³, in the five remaining particleboard plants in Simsboro, Taylorsville, Louisville, Missoula (Montana) and at its headquarters in Dillard (Oregon). The closure of the Holy Hill MDF plant and the two particleboard works in Vienna and Russellville was thereby largely compensated for by the takeover of the Simsboro plant. Coating capacity at Simsboro, Missoula, Dillard and the Oxford coating plant totals roughly 500m sqft/year, or 885,000 m³. There is cutting-to-size capacity in Oxford and in Dillard; finished components can be produced in Dillard and in Missoula.
31.08.2011
Roundwood/Sawnwood
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