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Columbia Falls MDF Plant Wins Its Third Major Industry Award for Safety Innovations
For the third year in a row, our medium density fiberboard (MDF) mill in Columbia Falls, Montana, has won the annual Composite Panels Association Safety Innovation of the Year. In doing so, Columbia Falls — our only MDF manufacturing facility and the longest-running MDF plant in the world, celebrating 50 years later in 2024 — beat out facilities from 34 other CPA members eligible for the award. ... Read More
August 12, 2024
Safety Makes Raymond THRIVE: The Award-Winning Safety Culture at Our Sawmill in Raymond, Wash.
Caring about the safety of your peers becomes even more personal when you spend time together outside of work and know the names of each other’s children. That kind of tight-knit community feeling is especially common in rural towns like Raymond, Washington, where our sawmill employs a significant percentage of the local population. ... Read More
August 6, 2024
Knock, Knock. Who's There? A New Guinness World Record — Thanks, in Part, to Our Team in Easton, Pennsylvania
In the rolling hills of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the rap-tap-tapping of 552 people knocking on wood filled the countryside for 10 seconds on a pleasant Thursday evening in late April. As it happens, they were knocking at history’s door, aiming for a Guinness World Record of most people knocking on wood simultaneously. ... Read More
July 22, 2024
The Heart of Innovation is ‘Challenging How Something Has Always Been Done’
As our Engineered Wood Products plant in Eugene, Oregon, prepared for an expected market slowdown in late 2022, Tom Mihalik sought out novel ways to cut costs and improve efficiency. ... Read More
June 28, 2024
Evelle Thomas Keeps the Storeroom Stocked and the McComb Community Supported
In the early 2000s, Evelle Thomas and her family lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Evelle’s family of four — including a newborn — lost everything. “The Salvation Army helped us stay on our feet, but we decided to relocate and restart somewhere new,” she says. In 2010 the family found themselves near our McComb lumber mill in Magnolia, Mississippi. Evelle applied for a job at the mill and became the site’s first woman forklift driver. And she quickly applied herself to helping out in the community as well. ... Read More
May 20, 2024