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Significant change has occurred in the world of forestry over the past couple of decades. These changes often lead to greater results for landowners, manufacturers and wood product customers. Drones are just one of many advancements Columbia Forest Products is delving into. Forestry and tourism are two natural resource-based industries that must often come together […]

We entered 2024 thinking it was the year for a slight reset, due to persistently high interest rates, personal budgets crimped by inflation and a host of “unknowns” in the air.   CFP’s economists believe that 2025-2029 will be a strong market, similar to a  “beach ball being held underwater” and that we might see a […]

Uncertainty. The word alone can be unsettling. Most of us are uncomfortable with certainty. We can count on the sun rising. We trust that our alarm clock will go off at 7:15 every morning, with just enough time to shower, brush teeth, get dressed, grab lunch and pile the kids into the car to drop […]

A Goal We Should Talk More About It should surprise no one that a manufacturing company like Columbia Forest Products runs on metrics of all kinds.  We track and analyze and learn from data that measures everything from our suppliers’ deliveries to vat temperatures, log days, miles driven, cash cycles and of course, quality. Everything […]