The Softwood Forest Products Buyer - September/October 2022

Zip-O-Log Hosts PWLA Members
By Zach Miller
IFG/Alta Welcome Guests to 8th Saw Blade
Tournament
Photos By Terry Miller
Forrest Clark, Prime Cut Custom Remanufacturing,
Springfield, OR; Levi Kintz, Daniel Gerton, Pelican Bay
Forest Products, Bend, OR; Cory Arius, Prime Forest
Products LLC, Springfield, OR; Terry Haddix, Patrick
Lumber Company, Portland, OR; and KelCee Hallstrom,
Zip-O-Log Mills Inc., Eugene, OR
Nick Lake, Zip-O-Log Mills Inc., Eugene, OR; Francisco
Chavez, Jesus Romero, Marcella Rocha and Jeremiah
Abbas, Prime Cut Custom Remanufacturing, Springfield,
OR
KayCee Hallstrom, Zip-O-Log Mills Inc., Eugene, OR;
Brooke Davison and Shelley Mentzer, Prime Forest
Products LLC, Beaverton, OR; Matt Schmidt, Prime Cut
Custom Remanufacturing, Springfield, OR; and Patrick
Charley and Cedrex Charley, Prime Forest Products LLC
Tyler Rockwell, Wildwood Trading Group, Portland, OR;
Courtney Chesney, Wildwood Trading Group, Tualatin,
OR; Jessica Kennedy, Prime Forest Products LLC,
Springfield, OR; Melissa Bunde, Wildwood Trading
Group, Tualatin, OR; and Nate Lively, Zip-O-Log Mills Inc.,
Eugene, OR
Dan Ettelstein, Northwest Specialty
Timber Inc., Sherwood, OR; Jessica
Stanley, Oregon Wood Specialties,
Portland, OR; Joe Honochick, Zip-
O-Log Mills Inc., Eugene, OR; Connor
Brink, Cameron Chatwood and
Joey Cochineur, Disdero Lumber Co.,
Clackamas, OR; and Mike Foster, AltruWood
Inc., Portland, OR
Eugene, OR–''Recently, the Portland
Wholesale Lumber Association
(PWLA) held a “Logs to Lumber”
meeting for members at Zip-O-Log's
mill here.
PWLA members divided into
separate groups and were guided
through both the sawmill and the
lam plant where they were able to
get insight from their respective
group leaders into the log breakdown
process of lumber and other
products.
Zip-O-Log's group leaders included
Nick Lake, Nate Lively, KayCee
Hallstrom, KelCee Hallstrom, and
Joe Honochick.
Zip-O-Log Mills Inc. has been a
leading provider of quality Douglas
Fir products for more than 75 years.
It is a long length cutting sawmill
with the capacity to produce up
to 52' in length, according to the
company's website. Because their
products are produced for exposed
structure applications, Zip-O-Log
specializes in No. 1 & Better, free
of heart center timbers. Zip-O-Log
also produces boxed heart timbers.
Anti-stain and application of a
clear wax base end seal is applied to
all rough products and they offer anti-stain
treatment on surfaced products
as well (all surfaced timbers are
end sealed). Other available options
to protect products during handling
and shipping are paper wrapping,
bottom boards, and stickers with
lath or kiln stickers on every layer
if the customer requires. Zip-O-Log
ships by rail or truck. n
To learn more about PWLA,
visit www.portlandwholesalelumberassociation.org.
For details about
Zip-O-Log Mills Inc.,
visit www.zipolog.com.
(Standing from left) Ken Koenig, Idaho Forest Group
LLC, Coeur d’Alene, ID; and Roger Fossett, Boise
Cascade Company, Boise, ID; and (seated from left)
Glenn Fischer, Boise Cascade Company, Salt Lake
City, UT; and Erol Deren, Idaho Forest Group LLC
Coeur d'Alene, ID–The Saw
Blade Invitational Golf Scramble,
held by Idaho Forest Group (IFG)
and Alta Forest Products, and held
at the Coeur d'Alene Resort, marked
its 8th year recently.
IFG is a growing familyowned
company, operating seven
sawmills and a finger-joint facility
in North Idaho and, most recently,
Lumberton, MS, that built a new
Southern Yellow Pine mill. The
company is now one of America's
largest lumber producers, with
capacity well over 1 billion board
feet per year and markets around the
globe.
Alta Forest Products,
headquartered in Chehalis, WA,
offers multiple lines of fencing
products, from Western Red
Cedar to pre-stained Whitewood
and Premium Treated products,
according to the company's
website, and is the largest wood
fence manufacturer in the world.
Alta manufactures over 15,000
truckloads of wood fencing each
year in the U.S. with a dedicated
team of more than 500 employees
across the Pacific Northwest. n
Learm more about the host
companies by visiting
www.ifg.com and
www.altafp.com.
Mason Granger, Idaho Forest Group,
Coeur d'Alene, ID; and Dave Cochenour,
Alta Forest Products, Chehalis,
WA
Additional Photos on page 28
Dave Cochenour, Alta Forest Products, Chehalis, WA; Joe Currier, Dakota Fence,
Fargo, ND; Joe La Berge, Collins Pine, Wilsonville, OR; Michael Avery, Universal
Forest Products LLC, Orlando, FL; and Derren Bennett and Ryan Kemp, UFP
Industries Inc., Grand Rapids, MI
(Standing from left) Phil Shumock,
Stella-Jones Corp., Tacoma, WA; Ryan
Tranter, Capital Lumber Company, Boise,
ID; Matt Wittschiebe, Stella-Jones
Corp. and (seated) Mike Kruse, Builders
FirstSource, Boise, ID
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