Softwood Forest Products Buyer - January/February 2024

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Gurinder Grewal is a sales representative at Partap Forest Products Ltd., located in Maple Ridge, B.C. His current role includes generating leads, meeting sales goals, promoting company programs, and addressing client inquiries. Partap is a family-owned and operated company, proudly serving since 2004, and is recognized as a top producer of Western Red Cedar and Pacific Hem-Fir lumber products. With an annual output of over 100 million board feet, they Gurinder Grewal offer a diverse range of products, including dimensional lumber, appearance & structural timbers, fencing, decking, balusters, and fascia Who’s Who in Softwoods Continued on page 51 Kenzie Hand is the sales account manager for the Western U.S. at MiCROTEC, located in Corvallis, OR. MiCROTEC is a log and lumber scanning solutions company. MiCROTEC’s equipment includes a CT Log Scanner, a tomography scanner that provides a complete reconstruction of logs’ internal features, allowing logs to be graded and sorted by quality and optimize the cutting solution; MiCROTEC’s Logeye Stereo, a stereoscopic imaging system which is the Kenzie Hand only worldwide scanner that provides a full 360-degree scan of a log as it's rolling into a carriage, headrig, end dogger, or from a transverse to lineal conveyor; and Lucidyne, a high performance lineal scanning system for planer mills, using MiCROTEC Ai to grade lumber with powerful sensors working Continued on page 52 Building Up, Not Out, For The Sustainable City Of Tomorrow J Gonzales is the Vice President of Sales Central Division for Humboldt /Allweather Wood, LLC, located in Loveland, CO. He is responsible for leading the Central Division’s team to develop and grow the Humboldt Sawmill brand of Douglas Fir and Redwood products along with the Allweather Wood brand of Preservative Treated lumber products east of the Rocky Mountains. Humboldt Sawmill is a manufacturer and distributor of Redwood, Douglas Fir, Hem Fir and Pine products. The J Gonzales Allweather Wood Loveland plant is a full-line preservative treated manufacturing facility combined with product distribution capabilities. Continued on page 52 Lori Byrd Lori Byrd is the Director of Plywood and Solid Wood Sales at RoyOMartin, a leading manufacturer of Southern Yellow Pine plywood, oriented strand board (OSB), and timbers. Operating from their corporate hub in Alexandria, LA, RoyOMartin proudly boasts an impressive portfolio of facilities, including two state-of-the-art OSB plants in Oakdale, LA, and Corrigan, TX, as well as a dedicated plywood and solid wood plant in Chopin, LA. RoyOMartin's reputation in the industry is underlined by its affiliations with organizations like Lumberman’s Association of Texas, North American Wholesale Lumber Association, APA, and RIMA. Byrd’s journey in this industry spans over four decades. Starting her career at Continued on page 52 Mass Timber Adoption Continues With AWC Support Table of Contents FEATURES Trader Market Recap ........................... 1 LMC Expo.............................................. 1 NRLA LBM Expo................................... 1 Tolko...................................................... 4 Jackel Enterprises................................ 5 Equipment Forecasts........................... 6 Lumber Forecasts................................ 7 WRCLA/BCWood Reception................ 8 NAWLA Executive Director.................. 9 NAFF ................................................... 10 NAWLA Students................................ 11 WWPI................................................... 12 SFPA ................................................... 13 DEPARTMENTS Who's Who in Softwoods.................... 2 AWC News............................................. 2 APA News.............................................. 2 NAWLA News........................................ 2 SLB News.............................................. 2 Washington Report............................ 38 Retail Review...................................... 40 Northeast Bus. Trends....................... 42 Inland West Bus. Trends.................... 42 Midwest Bus. Trends...............................44 West Coast Bus. Trends...................... 44 Southeast Bus.Trends...........................48 Ont./Quebec Bus. Trends.................. 48 Stock Exchange............................. 78-82 Industry News..................................... 84 Calendar.............................................. 90 Classified Opportunities.................... 90 Index of Advertisers........................... 90 By: Jackson Morrill President & CEO of the American Wood Council Up@310 Lofts Big changes are coming to cities, and the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) is working to ensure that Softwood lumber is poised to make a lasting impact while realizing new market opportunities. Urban populations have been growing exponentially for years. In 2023, the World Bank estimates that 4.4 billion people (or 56 percent of the global population) reside in cities, up from 751 million, or 30 percent, in 1950. But both the World Bank and United Nations agree that by 2050, nearly 70 percent of the Continued on page 52 APA Names New Chair, Vice Chair, Chair Of Finance, Trustees Join APA Board A new chair, vice chair, finance committee chair and two new members have been elected to APA – The Engineered Wood Association’s Board of Trustees. Doug Asano Doug Asano, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Roseburg Forest Products, has been elected chair of APA’s Board of Trustees, succeeding Ashlee Cribb. Asano leads Roseburg’s sales, marketing, customer service and fulfillment teams. Asano joined Roseburg in 2020 as director of sales excellence, focused on process and systems improvements and sales training. Before joining Roseburg, he worked at Huber Engineered Woods for more than 17 years in multiple commercial leadership roles, most recently as vice Continued on page 54 The American Wood Council (AWC) played a leading role in getting the mass timber construction types Jackson Morrill incorporated into the International Code Council’s (ICC) model building codes, which opened 2.25 billion board feet of market opportunity to wood products. We didn’t stop at this significant achievement. To ensure that mass timber construction continues to gain traction in the United States, AWC continues to dedicate significant resources to education and outreach efforts across the country in support of adoption of updated ICC mass timber code provisions. Including states with jurisdiction specific adoption of mass timber, 28 states have adopted mass timber provisions, up from 21 states in 2022. AWC uses a combination of education and direct outreach to code and fire officials in key jurisdictions to build understanding and support for mass timber adoption. For example, in Ohio this past year, AWC presented on the mass timber provisions to over 100 code officials at the Building Officials Conference of Continued on page 54 New NAWLA Member Benefits Coming Soon By The NAWLA Editor 2024 is officially here and your friends at the North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA) would like to be one of the first to wish you a Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed your holiday season and are excited to kick off another year of growth and collaboration with us. On the heels of a successful 2023, which included the annual Traders Market event in which over 1,300 lumber industry professionals were able to attend, NAWLA is excited to be diving deeper into member initiatives that have been top of mind for the NAWLA Board of Directors and also begin work on two new member benefits. In welcoming its new executive director, Matt Bruno, to the fold in November, NAWLA is looking to further strengthen the relationships it has with its members in 2024. A big part of this will be through the continued development of national Continued on page 55 A Bi-Monthly newspaper serving North America’s Softwood Forest Products Buyers Published by Softwood Trade Publications, Inc. P. O. Box 34908 Memphis, Tenn. 38134 Tel. (901) 372-8280 FAX (901) 373-6180 Web Site: www.softwoodbuyer.com E-Mail Addresses: Advertising: apryll@millerwoodtradepub.com Editorial: editor@millerwoodtradepub.com Subscriptions: circ@millerwoodtradepub.com Terry Miller - President/Publisher Zachary Miller - Sales Representative Paul J. 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