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Domtar Inc. and Tembec Inc. agreed to merge their timber and softwood operations in Quebec and Ontario into a new company equally owned by both firms; its name and Hq. will be announced when the deal closes, anticipated by the end of September ...

Annandale Millwork/AIlied Systems Corp., Winchester, Va., suffered minor damage to its 30,000-sq. ft. mill from a June 22 fire; the company plans to relocate its Charles Town, W.V., truss plant to its Winchester site

Midwest Woodworking Co., Kalona, Ia., has been opened by Marlin and Rebekah Gingerich

Cramer Architectural Millwork, Marshalls Creek, Pa., was destroyed by fire May 30

Trussway Ltd., Houston, Tx., was ordered to pay $300,000 for hiring illegal immigrants at its Buckner, Ky., truss plant ...

Catawissa Lumber & Specialty Co., Catawissa, Pa., has permanently laid off 36 workers, roughly IjVo of its workforce, at its Catawissa and Paxinos, Pa., mills

Gibraltar Steel Corp., Buffalo, N.Y., has acquired Air Vent Inc., Dallas. Tx.. from CertainTeed

Allegheny Wood Products Inc., Petersburg, W.V., has acquired 5,600 acres in Preston County, W.V., from West Virginia Power Transmission Co.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. agreed to sell approximately 81,000 acres of timberland in Alabama and Tennessee for $37.5 million to Stevenson Tract Acquisition Co., LLC, which is jointly owned by Coastal Lumber Co.. Weldon. N.C. and investment group ArcherWoodlands Group ...

Ame ri c an To o l, Huntersville, N.C., will close two hand tool plants in Beatrice, Ne., by the end ofthe year...

Ludowici Roof Tile, Inc., Yalley Forge, Pa., has become the first clay roofing maker to achieve ISO 9000:2000 registration ...

Do it Best Corp., Fort Wayne, In., recently received the Half Century Business Award from the state of Indiana for the company's 58 years in business

Nexwood Industries has doubled the capacity of its Ontario, Canada, composite deck manufacturing facility...

Temple-Inland Inc., Diboll, Tx., was recognized with the American Forest & Paper Association's 2003 Forest Management Award for its conservation forest program