Rosboro has announced a temporary curtailment of production at its commodity stud lumber mill in Springfield, Oregon. This decision was made due to an ongoing imbalance between local timber costs and market pricing for commodity lumber. Recently implemented regulations restricting timber harvest activities in Oregon have caused material harm to the competitiveness of much of state’s wood products manufacturing segment, and 40 of employees and their families will unfortunately suffer for it. Following the curtailment, the company will have a total of 295 employees located in Springfield.
Operations at Rosboro's lamstock mill, two planer mills, dry kilns, and three glulam manufacturing plants are ongoing. The $100 million investment announced in 2023 is entirely in support of its glulam business, and implementation of that investment continues as planned. That investment will enable the Company to utilize the recently curtailed stud mill for the production of lamstock and move away from commodity production. The project will increase Rosboro’s vertically integrated glulam manufacturing capacity by 50%, and the stud mill will be a key piece to that puzzle.
Rosboro plans to resume operations at the curtailed mill in conjunction with the completion of its expansion project, at the latest. In the meantime, if the log and/or lumber markets normalize to a point where it is feasible to resume production of commodity lumber the Company is prepared to jump back in.
Rosboro is North America's largest producer of glue-laminated timber.
