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Elvis Hood, Columbia’s Field Sales Representative (FSR) for the Great Lakes Region, has served customers in the wood industry for well over 40 years.  He has always had sawdust in his veins.  From the start, Elvis wanted to learn every aspect of the industry and was fortunate enough to work for several organizations that allowed […]

How Chinese Spy Balloons and Earthquakes Figure In To Forecasting (or Do They?) In the world of prediction, we use models to glimpse into the future.  In a simplistic manner, the models used for prediction assume the event or time horizon we’re examining will be played out a large number of times.   Assuming we […]

Getting Back to Blocking and Tackling OK, here we are…well underway with 2023, and managing everything we can to be an even more ready, willing and able supplier for you. I’m happy to report that Columbia Forest Products is seeing some very good “returning to normal” indicators that will have us on a much better […]

Bill Thompson, a Team Lead in our Chatham, Virginia mill, has experienced a rather amazing story that touches on history, family, home and friendship.  So amazing, that 60 Minutes chose to report on it earlier this year.  It started when Bills’s grandfather bought a property at an auction in 1917. “There were 220 acres of […]