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Columbia Forest Products Invests Further In Ontario, Canada. Acquires Nova Wood Lamination Inc in Kitchener, Ontario. Columbia Forest Products announced that they have purchased the shares of Nova Wood Lamination Inc from its founding owners, Frank and Donna Decicco. “Frank, Donna and the rest of the Nova Wood Lamination team have built an outstanding reputation […]

Columbia Forest Products, North America’s leader in decorative hardwood plywood panels, announces the promotion of three senior-level employees to the company’s executive team.  The following promotions were announced by Brad Thompson, President and CEO: Gary Gillespie has been promoted to Executive Vice President responsible for all of Columbia’s Canadian plywood operations and the company’s decorative veneer […]

Last Friday on a typical rainy NW day, I finally made good on a personal plan to visit the Seattle, the Emerald City (as we call it here in the Rose City) to make a pilgrimage of sorts to photograph and blog about the Greenest Building In the World, the Bullitt Center, as Columbia’s PureBond® […]

Hardwood plywood is sold primarily for its aesthetics…we all know that! Since in reality we observe wood surfaces in 2 dimensions only, we typically don’t spend a lot of time wondering what’s underneath the beautiful, high quality, exquisitely finished maple, birch, alder, cherry, walnut, or oak face. Our first thought when we see a piece of […]