Roseburg Welcomes Young Guns

Roseburg Forest Products recently led two days of tours through its Orcgon facilities for a -troup of 23 young salespeople from Califbrnia.

Sponsored by the Lumber Association of California & Nevada's 40-and-under 2nd Growth group, the event included tours of Roseburg's stud mill, hardwood plywood, particleboard and prefinishing plants in Dillard. cngineered wood products facility in Riddle, and Hinkle Creek watershed study.

"The LACN group has historically been more focused on Southern California," said Mike McDonell, RFP territory sales manager. "So we wanted to bring them up north into Oregon. Plus, RFP has a story to tell, and many of the older LACN membership know about both Kenneth and Allyn Ford's unique leadership in our industry. We wanted to make sure the next generation understands how dedicated we are at RFP in managing our timberlands responsibly and producing the highest quality products from our resource base."

Ganahl Lumber's Barrett Burt. current 2nd Growth president, noted, "These tours allow our members to better understand how the manufacturing side of a business has to make decisions today that will benefit the company many years from now. At the retail level. we become accustomed to just buying and selling and not realizing how much research, planning and execution it takes to produce the products."

MILL TOUR attendees included young wood products reps coming up through the ranks of sales, manufacturing and management from Economy Lumber Co,, Capital, Ganahl Lumber Co., Sierra-Pacific Industries, Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co., and Farwest Plywood.

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