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Oregon remanufacturer improves facility
With the latest improvements at Fremont Forest Products' Creswell, Or., remanufacturing facility, customers now have access to a complete line of planing services.
The addition of a high performance Stetson Ross 17Al planer, a new infeed and a new waste renoval system enables the mill under manager Jerry Crrimes to expand its production base to include 1x2 through lx6 and 2xZ througb 2xl2 S4S green Douglas fir. Customers now have many options available, including custom milling, grading, pattems, packaging, double end rimming and mixed loads.
Prior to the December installation, the facility produced 1x3, 1x4 and 1x6 green Douglas fr lumber in packaged lengths from 6 ft. to 20 ft. in sorted grades of D & Better clears, Select Merch, Standard, Utility and Economy. Located in the Willanette Valley next to Interstate 5, 10 miles south of Eugene, the plant runs one shift producing 60,000 bf of product daily on I inch and higher with dimension.
Grade certification to West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau specifications is provided by Timber Products Inspection Agency. Finished product is distributed throughout the western states. Chips and planing shavings are sold to Willamette Indusnies to be processed into paper and pressboard.
The Creswell plant is open to visitors. Information about tours is available ftom Grimes.
