Weyerhaeuser Company engages in growing and harvesting timber, as well as in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of forest products primarily in the United States and Canada. The company manages approximately 5.7 million acres of self-owned and 0.7 million acres of leased commercial forestlands in North America; and has renewable long-term licenses on 26.8 million acres of forestland located in 5 provinces in Canada. It manufactures and distributes softwood lumber, engineered lumber, hardwoo ...

Universal Corporation (NYSE: UVV), headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, was founded in 1918. The Company is one of the world's leading leaf tobacco merchants and processors, based on volumes handled by its subsidiaries and affiliates, and has operations in agri-products. Universal conducts business in more than 35 countries and employs more than 25,000 permanent and seasonal workers.

Universal's business includes selecting, buying, shipping, processing, packing, storing, and financing of leaf ...

Bowater Incorporated, headquartered in Greenville, SC, is a leading producer of coated and specialty papers and newsprint.

In addition, the company sells bleached market pulp and lumber products. Bowater employs approximately 6,900 people and has 12 pulp and paper mills in the United States, Canada and South Korea. In North America, it also operates one converting facility and owns 10 sawmills.

Bowater's operations are supported by approximately 708,000 acres of timberlands owned or lease ...

BlueLinx announced today that the purchase by Georgia-Pacific Wood Products South LLC of the former International Paper Engineered Lumber facility at Thorsby, Ala., provides BlueLinx with a significant opportunity to expand its engineered lumber business in the Central, Southwest,and Midwest Markets.

BlueLinx currently services its customers using Georgia-Pacific engineered lumber in these markets under the Wood I Beam™ and G-P Lam® Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) brand names, but the recent ac ...