Jul 02, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. The first logs rolled through Weyerhaeuser Co.’s new consolidated sawmill in Longview, Washington, marking a new era for the company’s lumber production in Cowlitz County, The Daily News Longview, WA reported. The new, high-tech mill, located next to the company’s existing planer mill on Industrial Way, will be in the start-up phase for about three months as workers make sure it’s working properly, said Anthony Chavey, a Weyerhaeuser spokesman. “They have to do some preliminary work before they get to full capacity,” Chavez said. Weyerhaeuser is planning a public unveiling of the mill after it moves out of the start-up phase, which should happen in September, Chavez said. The new mill replaces the 32-year-old Green Mountain mill outside of Toutle, which Weyerhaeuser shut down two months ago. The company had been planning to move its operations to the Longview site, which employes 230 people, since December 2006. The cost-cutting move eliminated 130 jobs. About 60 to 70 former Green Mountain employees took jobs at the new mill. As the timber industry struggles with the collapsing nationwide housing market, Weyerhaeuser is treading where few other companies dare by opening a new, high-tech mill, said Paul Latta, a timber industry analyst.