The Softwood Forest Products Buyer - March/April 2022

Jeff Bowers is president of Bowers Forest Products Corp.
in Beavercreek, OR. Among other responsibilities, Bowers
manages sales and purchasing. His company does custom remanufacturing
with sales nationwide. Bowers Forest Products
produces 15 million board feet of Softwood lumber per year,
including green and dry, Douglas Fir, Hemlock, Cedar and
Redwood.
The company manufactures furring strips, tile battens, lath,
Jeff Bowers Cedar boxes and truss blocks. In 2019 Bowers acquired the
Woodway Products line from LWO Corp. This added lattice
panels, post caps, balusters, deck posts, fence panels and trellis to their product
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Keith Price is a salesman for Corley Manufacturing, based
in Chattanooga, TN. Price’s covered sales region includes
seven states, and he has held his current position for four
years.
Corley Manufacturing focuses on the design and manufacture
of sawmill machinery for Softwood and hardwood. They
produce carriages, optimization, carriage drives, band mills,
slabbers and log turners, along with a number of outfeed
Keith Price lumber and cant handling products.
The company is a member of the Southeastern Lumber
Manufacturers Association, Southern Forest Products Association, Hardwood
Manufacturers Association, National Hardwood Lumber Association, Indiana
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Wood Wins On A Level Playing Field
By: Jackson Morrill
President & CEO of the American Wood Council
Within the last year, the American Wood Council (AWC)
has really ramped up our efforts on an issue of critical importance
to our industry – in fact our entire supply chain – and
that is climate change, and in particular carbon emissions in
the built environment.
The focus of climate policy, standards development and
regulation in construction has traditionally been focused on
energy efficiency. We are now seeing a shift to also take into
consideration the carbon footprint of the building materials
Jackson Morrill chosen for a particular project. These initiatives are looking
at the overall “embodied carbon,” or the amount of carbon
expended in extraction, transportation, manufacture, use, and at end-of-life of the
building material itself.
Through “Buy Clean Policies,” which are predominantly occurring at the state
level now but are also actively under consideration at the Federal level, policymakers
are exploring how to reduce the overall embodied carbon of government
buildings. These policies may eventually evolve into regulations that will drive
building material choices, impacting every major construction market. Moreover,
the methodologies used will likely prove influential in shaping market preferences
and voluntary standards.
Fortunately, wood products have very low embodied carbon compared to competing
materials, which should put them at the front of the line for government
Buy Clean programs. We are concerned, however, that initial Buy Clean legislation
and regulations are moving forward without complete data or solid carbon
accounting methodology, creating an uneven playing field that could disadvantage
wood products and those that use them in construction.
For example, many of these proposed Buy Clean policies rely entirely on
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which only permit siloed comparisons
of embodied carbon within product groups (e.g., concrete vs. concrete) but
cannot be used to compare across materials (e.g., wood vs. concrete or steel). The
end result of relying only on EPDs can be compared to rewarding a student from
moving from a D- to a C-, while the A student is never considered or recognized.
Whole Building Lifecycle Assessments (WBLCA), conversely, are tools that do
compare across materials, and when supported by good data and methodology,
can be relied upon to drive changes in behavior and achieve meaningful carbon
Who’s Who in Softwoods
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Kris Heald is a member of the inside sales team and is
responsible for quality assurance at Robbins Lumber Inc.,
located in Searsmont, ME.
Robbins Lumber produces top-quality Eastern White Pine,
specializing in patterns, custom packaging and primed products.
All Standard and Better grade is kiln-dried, machined
through moulders and end-branded with product information.
The company is ISO 9001:2000 certified operating two
sawmills in Maine. The company produces 50 million feet of Kris Heald
White Pine production.
Value-added services offered by Robbins Lumber include custom milling and
Riley Tough is a lumber trader for Skana Forest Products,
located in Richmond, British Columbia.
Skana is a Softwood wholesaler and manufacturer specializing
in a wide range of products, including framing lumber,
MSR, No. 3 and Economy, finger-jointed lumber, plywood,
agricultural stakes and furring strips. The company markets
to North America as a wholesaler of SPF, Pine, Western Red
Cedar and plywood.
Tough has been a part of Skana’s team for a year and a half Riley Tough
and has been trading lumber in his current position for eight
months. Previously, he ran the company’s Transportation Department.
Tough graduated from South Delta Senior Secondary, located in Tsawwassen,
Industry Contributions Through
Research And Testing
A historical overview of the APA Research Center
By BJ Yeh, Ph.D., P.E.
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APA —The Engineered Wood Association’s Research Center has long been
recognized as one of the leading wood research facilities in North America. That
position has strengthened over the years as facility expansions provide support for
new and existing research and testing on engineered wood products and construction
systems for the industry.
Today, the Association’s 42,000-square-foot research center is a state-of-the-art
laboratory equipped with modern research and testing equipment and staffed by
experienced engineers, wood scientists and engineering technicians.
WHERE IT BEGAN – PLYWOOD PANELS AND GLULAM BEAMS
Built in 1969, the original 37,000-square-foot APA Research Center was
constructed for testing of typical-sized 4-foot by 8-foot plywood panels. As the
demand for full-scale tests on modern engineered wood products grew, the building
was renovated in 1990 to accommodate other engineered wood products, such
as 6-foot deep by 72-foot long glulam beams.
FULL-SCALE WALL BRACING AND COMBINED SHEAR AND WIND
UPLIFT TESTING
With the trend toward full-scale structural testing, an extension designed for
single-story house tests and test material storage was added to the research center
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Table of Contents
FEATURES
NAHB IBS Orlando Event......... 1
Dan North On The Economy....1
The Beasley Group: Three
Generations Deep................. 4
Lumber Traders Inc.
Expands................................ 6
2022 Transportation Survey..... 7
Preserved Wood Today............ 8
Sustainability 101: ...................13
DEPARTMENTS
Who's Who in Softwoods....... 2
AWC News................................ 2
APA News................................. 2
SLB News................................. 3
Washington Scene................ 12
Retail Review......................... 14
Northeast Bus. Trends.......... 16
Inland West Bus. Trends....... 16
Midwest Business Trends..... 18
West Coast Business
Trends................................. 18
Southeast Bus.Trends.............20
Ont./Quebec Bus. Trends..... 20
Softwood Stock
Exchange...................... 44–47
Trade Talk............................... 48
Softwood Calendar................ 52
In Memoriam.......................... 53
Classified Opportunities....... 54
Index of Advertisers.............. 54
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SLB Announces Winners of
2022 Timber Education Prize
Award recognizes excellence in post-secondary architectural education
The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and the Association
of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) announced
the winners of the 2022 Timber Education Prize recently, a
competition that supports innovative courses and curriculum
to be taught at architecture schools across North America.
The prizes recognize effective and innovative instruction
that create a stimulating and evidence-based environment
for learning about timber. Using wood as a building material
can achieve multiple design, construction, and performance
objectives. Therefore, these courses equip students with the
knowledge and design skills to achieve green building goals
in a range of project types.
Through its education program, the SLB is dedicated to
closing knowledge gaps about the use of wood products for
FENCES THAT
STAND FOR
SOMETHING.
their climate benefits, increasing wood usage, and capitalizing
on emerging construction trends.
“Our funding of the 2022 Timber Education Prize supports
architecture school educators who are ensuring graduates
enter the profession with full knowledge of sustainable forestry,
the science of wood building products, and the ability
to catalyze profound innovations in architecture,” said Simon
Hyoun, SLB’s Senior Director of Education.
The jury selected five courses to receive a cash prize and
support to lead their courses at their host institution within
the next two years. The winners were:
• Mass Timber and New England – Taught by Tom S.
Chung at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. This
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At Alta Forest Products, our fences stand just a little bit taller. Craftsmanship,
sustainability and American-grown Western Red Cedar are at the core of who we
are. We value relationships more than anything, and believe in giving our partners
the right tools to get the job done.
www.altafp.com 800-599-5596
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