Innovation

Dumping hoppers are a fixture at our Panels facilities — they’re affixed to forklifts and used daily to move ash, sawdust and other materials around the site. But each time an operator dumped the hopper’s load, they had to climb out of the forklift and manually work the latch — exposing them to multiple potential hazards, that could result in slips, trips and falls or even finger amputation. ... Read More

When the manager of Cindy Rucker’s log team retired, they didn’t just leave a vacancy. They left a team of 18 people in varying states of transition — some brand new, some reassigned to different regions, some stepping into leadership roles for the first time. Overnight, a system that had worked well for years stopped working. ... Read More

Fifty years ago, the University of Idaho took a bold step: covering its football stadium with what would become the world’s longest suspended wood roof. The result was the Kibbie Dome, an engineering marvel that turned heads far beyond Moscow, Idaho. ... Read More

At our Sutton oriented strand board plant in Heaters, West Virginia, 200,000 pounds of wood strands are dried in four sets of triple-pass dryers every hour. Those dry strands are blended with resin and formed into 12-foot-by-24-foot mats, which are then cured in the hot press and cut into 4-foot-by-8-foot boards of high-quality OSB. ... Read More

At our engineered wood products plant in Buckhannon, West Virginia, success isn’t merely a goal. It’s an ongoing journey fueled by teamwork and collaboration — a journey that has made Buckhannon one of our most consistent top performers in both safety and manufacturing reliability. ... Read More