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Holiday Thoughts About Columbia: The Many Meanings of Significance  Nobody has had it easy the past couple of years. I think we’re all still straining from the many things we haven’t been able to control that came our way when we least expected them. Of course, we have no choice but to move forward and […]

A Columbia Employee’s DIY for his Family Joshua Houlihan, Continuous Improvement Manager at Columbia’s Newport, VT veneer facility, is focused on making sure the faces that leave the mill meet Columbia’s grading standards and high customer expectations. He knows that in their final applications, our veneer faces will be what people look at for years […]

Columbia’s Old Fort Facility Celebrates a Major Milestone When Columbia Forest Products broke ground on its Old Fort, NC mill in 1981, the company had its sights set on doing things never done before…making hardwood plywood on the East Coast and making it with a Yellow Poplar hardwood core. It became a reality in 1982. […]

Supporting Disaster Victims in the Logging Community You may recall the tornadoes that devastated parts of Kentucky late last year, and the story about the Old Fort Caring Team’s response.  This summer, historic flooding has affected many of the logging and coal mining communities in the mountain region of Kentucky. The flooding brought devastation on […]