78 Plants on Pacific Coast Producing Record Amount of Plywood

As this special Plywood Issue of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT goes to press, 78 plywood plants on the Pacific Coast, under pressure of a "mighty thirst" for the product, are making plywood at a rate never before dreamed of. As one manufacturer reported, the mills are cutting every foot they can possibly produce, fitting their production plans to the market, and turning out a maximum quantity of most favorable items.

The Douglas Fir Plywood Association estimates at this moment that the 1950 production lvill reach a grand total of.2,200,000,000 square feet, as compared with 1,899,000,000 square feet for 1949, 1,9@,000,000 for 1948, and 1,630,000,0AO for 1947.

There are 10 plywood plants in operation in California, and one under construction and nearly ready to start. Four are Pine plants, one produces both Fir and Pine, 5 are strictly Fir producers, and one more Fir plant is under construction. There are 35 Plywood plants in Washington, 25 in Oregon, and 8 in British Columbia. Two of the B. C. plants are very small, one started just recently. British Columbia production for the past year totaled 312,458.000 feet.

Redwood plywood is being made at only one plant, that of the M and M Wood Working Company, at Eureka, California.

One interesting California plywood development is shown by the report of Shasta Plywood Inc., at Anderson, (Post Office at Redding) that it is now making a large part of its board from California Sugar Pine. Heretofore only incidental quantities of plywood have been made from that tree.

Pine plyrvood is being manufactured by the Calaveras Forest Products Corporation, San Andreas, California; the Fruit Growers Supply Company, Westwood, California; the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Weed, California; Shasta Plywood, Tnc., Anderson, California; Kalpine Plywood Company, Klamath Falls, Oregon; and the Timber Products Corporation, Medford, Oregon, make part of their board from Pine.

The following concerns are making Douglas Fir plywood in California: Coast Plywood Manufacturing Company, Calpe1la; Crescent Plywood Company, Crescent City; Flumboldt Plywood Corporation, Arcata; Industrial Plywood Corporation, Willits; and the M and M Wood Working Company, Eureka. Mutual Plywood Corporation, Eureka, has a Fir plywood plant nearly ready to start.

The following are the going Fir plywood plants in the state of Washington:

Aberdeen Plyu'ood Corporation, Aberdeen.

Anacortes Veneer. Inc., Anacortes.

R. 8,. Ausnes Plyrn'ood Co., P. O. Box 1352, Tacoma.

Bellingham Plywood Corporation, Bellingham.

Buffelen Manufacturing Company, Tacoma.

Capitol Manufacturing Company, Olympia.

Columbia Veneer Company, Kalama.

Elliott Bay Mill Company, Seattle.

Engineered Plywood Products Company, Tacoma.

Gordon-Ladley Plywood Products Co., Elma.

Hardel Plywood Company, Olympia.

Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam.

D. W. Lyle, Tacoma.

M and M Wood Wgrking-Company, Longview.

Mount Baker Plywood, Inc., Bellingham.

North Pacific Plywood, Inc., Tacoma.

Northwest Door Company, Tacoma.

Pacific Veneer & Plywood Corporation, Bellingham.

Peninsula Plywood Corporation, Port Angeles.

Puget Sound Plywood, Inc., Tacoma.

Rainier Plywood Company, Tacoma.

Robinson Plywood & Timber Company, Everett.

Simpson Logging Company, McCleary.

Simpson Logging Company, Shelton.

St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, Tacoma.

Stevenson Plywood Corporation, Stevenson.

Tyee Plywood Company, Beaver.

United States Plywood Corporation, Seattle.

Vancouver Plywood Company, Vancouver.

Walton Plywood Company, Everett.

Washington Veneer Company, Olympia.

West Coast Plywood Company, Aberdeen.

Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Longview.

Wheeler Osgood Company, Tacoma.

Woodlawn Plywood Company, Hoquiam.

With 9 plywood plants, Tacoma, Washington, continues to be the outstanding plywood producing center of the world.

Oregon has the following Fir plywood plants:

Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., Eugene.

Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., Willamina.

Campbell & Mclean, Eugene.

Cascades Plywood Corporation, Lebanon.

Coos Bay Lumber Company, Coquille.

Ilvans Products Company, Coos Bay.

Fir Manufacturing Company, Myrtle Creek.

Linn Plywood & Door Company, Albany.

M and M Wood Working Company, Albanl'.

N[ and M Wood \Vorking Company, Portland.

Martin Bros. Box Company, Oakland.

Menasha-Coos Head Plywood Corporation, North Bend.

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Materials at Associated Plywood Mills are unexcelledDouglas fir that grows sound and big in the moist Oregon climate... Associated plywood plants are models of efficiency in the industry... And Associated employees, nearly 1000 strong, are experts in their craft, with special skills and long experience.

The plywood they make is grademarked and trademarkeddouble guarantee of quality on both exterior-type and interiortype panels manufactured by this company.

APMI plywood is available at sales warehouses situated in the nation's important population and building areas. It is sold and serviced by men who know plywood uses, and who would be happy to receive your inquiries for general information, for prices, for delivery schedules.

Pqnels up to 60 inches in width