USA - Roseburg recently announced  that it will permanently end operations at its Taylorsville, Mississippi, particleboard plant on Aug. 21, 2023.

While the plant will no longer produce particleboard, a forest products company has signed a letter of intent to purchase the facility for an alternate use. The transaction is expected to close later this year, pending completion of standard due diligence and regulatory activities.

Roseburg acquired the Taylorsville particleboard plant from Georgia-Pacific in 2006 in an expansion of the company’s composite panel business. The Taylorsville plant is now among the oldest particleboard mills in North America, and the plant’s press equipment and technology have aged to the point that it can no longer compete with newer domestic particleboard mills and the influx of imported products.

Roseburg is heavily invested in the composites industry, manufacturing both particleboard and MDF at plants across North America. The company recently announced a USD 700 million investment in manufacturing in Oregon, including a new plant which will make both medium- and high-density fiberboard.