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Collins is a family-owned American forest products company that began in operations July 28, 1855. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Collins was the first privately owned forest products company in the United States to have all of its hardwood and softwood forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
Willamette Industries, Inc. was a Fortune 500 forest products company based in Portland, Oregon, United States. [3] In 2002, the lumber and paper company was purchased by competitor Weyerhaeuser of Federal Way, Washington in a hostile buyout and merged into Weyerhaeuser's existing operations.
Roseburg Forest Products is a privately owned wood–products company based in Springfield, Oregon. Founded in 1936, the company had approximately 3,000 employees and revenues of nearly US$1 billion in 2012. [1] [2] Roseburg Forest Products operates mills throughout Western Oregon, and continues to be held by the founding Ford family.
North Pacific Group (NOR PAC), founded in 1948 as North Pacific Lumber Company, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, was a major wholesaler and distributor of wood products, building materials, steel and agriculture commodities in the United States. Annual sales exceeded $1.2 billion.
His father was a sawmill operator who later moved the family to Lebanon, Oregon. Ford originally wanted to operate a dairy farm but, after working for his father, he decided on the lumber business. He graduated from high school in 1926 and completed a term at Oregon State University. He met Hallie Brown and married her in 1935. [2]
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company was a lumber products company with large sawmills and significant land holdings in Minnesota, Florida, British Columbia, and Central Oregon. The company was formed in 1901 with its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Beginning in 1915, its main lumber production facility was in Bend, Oregon. For many years, its ...
Miller was the son-in-law of Stimson, and a founder of the Western Forestry Center in Portland, as well as onetime owner of the Schooner Te Vega. [3] Miller had been asked by Charles S. Stimson to move to Oregon to head family's business in Oregon. [3] Two years later the company opened a new mill in Forest Grove, which remains in operation. [2]
Dragsaw demonstration at Cobble Hill Fair, late August 2007, Cobble Hill, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. A dragsaw or drag saw is a large reciprocating saw using a long steel crosscut saw to buck logs to length.