National Hardwood Magazine - April 2017

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TRADE TALK CONTINUED Miller Miller Wood Trade Publications proudly serves National Hardwood Magazine www.nationalhardwoodmag.com Import/Export Wood Purchasing News www.woodpurchasingnews.com Softwood Forest Products Buyer www.softwoodbuyer.com Softwood Forest Products Buyer Special NAWLA Edition www.softwoodbuyer.com Imported Wood Purchasing Guide www.importedwoodpurchasing.com Forest Products Export Directory www.forestproductsexport.com SERVICE PAIRED WITH INDUSTRY CARE GLEN ROCK, PA TOLL FREE 1.800.638.0296 WWW.OSHEALUMBER.COM the Forest Products Industry with the following publications and online directories Dimension & Wood Components Buyer’s Guide www.dimensionwoodcomponent.com Hardwood Purchasing Handbook www.hardwoodpurchasinghdbk.com Greenbook’s Hardwood Marketing Directory www.millerwoodtradepub.com Greenbook’s Softwood Marketing Directory www.millerwoodtradepub.com Forest Products Stock Exchange www.millerwoodtradepub.com P.O. Box 34908 Memphis, TN 38184-0908 (800) 844-1280 or (901) 372-8280 Fax: (901) 373-6180 www.millerwoodtradepub.com PLEASE VISIT US ONLINE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PUBLICATIONS passed to David Twite upon MacDonald’s retirement. Since then, Twite has been expanding MacDonald & Owen and currently operates four facilities. Products manufactured include: Alder, Ash, Basswood, Cherry, Hard and Soft Maple, Poplar and Red and White Oak. More information can be found at www.hardwoodlumber.net or www.- siidrykilns.com. EDGEWOOD, IA–Kendrick Forest Products (KFP), the parent company of Forever Cabinets by Kendrick, kendrick HOME, and shimlee, all headquartered here, will double cabinet output and produce wood art and custom imprinting on wood when it moves all three businesses into a renovated 36,000 square foot building, located in the town’s industrial park. The company plans to add 12 jobs with this move, which is due to be com- year. Forever Cabinets by Kendrick, which makes custom kitchen cabinets and a full line of products for other rooms in the home, will immediately double production and grow into other woodworking areas. The kendrick HOME division will produce and market wood wall art nationwide to brick and mortar stores in the U.S. Already, the company has sales representatives for the line of wood wall art in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Michigan and plans to add salesmen in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Alabama. The shimlee division will produce custom giclee on wood. Giclee is a reproduction using a high-quality inkjet printer on wood and other mediums. 82 APRIL 2017 NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE

Rhonda and Tim Kendrick The items will be sold directly to the public through shimlee.- com. KFP is a second-generation, vertically integrated Hardwood company owned and operated by Tim and Rhonda Kendrick. In addition to making products from the logs it fells and cuts, KFP also sells both Green and kiln-dried lumber. They ship mixed truckloads of Walnut and other north- distribution industries worldwide. KFP’s sawmill produces approximately 10 million board feet annually. For more information, visit www.KFPIOWA.com. MEMPHIS, TN–Buckman Laboratories International Inc., headquartered here, announced that Steve Buckman, president and CEO of the global specialty chemical company, will retire April 28, after leading the company for 16 years. Junai Maharaj, current managing director of Buckman Europe, Middle East and Africa, Steven B. Buckman will assume the role of CEO. Under Buckman’s leadership, the company doubled global sales and received two Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards from the EPA, including recognition for a new enzyme technology to improve paper recycling. “Steve transformed Buckman into a successful global specialty chemical company that focuses on sustainable success through teamwork and values honest and ethical Please turn the page APRIL 2017 NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 83