Roseburg enters tentative agreement with West Oregon Wood Products to market wood fuel pellets

Apr 24, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. Roseburg Forest Products announced a tentative agreement with West Oregon Wood Products for marketing of wood fuel pellets. Roseburg expects to begin producing wood pellets at its Dillard, Ore., particleboard manufacturing facility in time for the 2008-09 home-heating season. The companies are targeting the Oregon and California home-heating markets. “The addition of a pellet mill will give Roseburg the flexibility to substitute pellets for commodity particleboard production during the home-heating season,” said Darrell Keeling, vice president of composite manufacturing at RFP. “We will put our wood fiber to the best use while continuing to serve our panel customers.” Roseburg’s initial production capacity will be 22 thousand tons of pellets per year with potential to expand in the future. The companies are targeting the Oregon and California home-heating markets. “Particleboard remains our primary product at the Dillard composite panel facility,” he said. “The addition of the pellet business will allow us to stabilize our raw material supply.” Based in Roseburg, RFP is a family-owned manufacturer of lumber, particleboard, softwood plywood, engineered wood products and specialty panels. West Oregon Wood Products produces a variety of wood products, including commercial-grade sawdust, animal bedding, all-wood fire logs, and fuel and barbecue pellets.