Arauco has officially opened its state-of-the-art particleboard and lamination facility in Grayling, Michigan, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
The Grayling mill, which represents a $450 million investment in supporting Arauco’s North American customer base, increases the company’s ability to meet the burgeoning furniture manufacturing industry in the United States’ Midwest market area and beyond.
Considered a “modern manufacturing marvel,” the 820,000‐square‐foot, technologically advanced particleboard and lamination operation in Grayling is the company’s first greenfield facility in the United States, its 11th North American manufacturing site and the largest of its kind globally.
The operation is designed to be one of the most productive in the world and houses North America’s highest-capacity, single-line particleboard press, two thermally infused laminating (TFL) lines and a large stocking warehouse for just-in-time service delivery.
The plant currently staffs more than 200 full-time employees and has generated approximately 700 additional jobs in related supplier and logistics industries since construction commenced in spring 2017.
Arauco is a global producer of wood products supplying pulp, lumber, plywood, composite panels, and millwork for architecture, design, construction, packaging, paper, nonwoven and remodeling applications.
