The American Wood Council (AWC) is a trade association that represents North American wood products manufacturers.
North American membership includes companies and industry associations; among them,
Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade Company (), which uses the trade name Boise Cascade, is a North American manufacturer of wood products and wholesale distributor of building materials, headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
with sales over $7.9 billion in 2021, it is trad ...
LLC,
Canfor
Canfor Corporation is an integrated forest products company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
History
The company traces its roots to the late 1930s when brothers-in-law John G. Prentice and L.L.G. "Poldi" Bentley (surname changed from Bloch ...
USA/New South,
Georgia-Pacific LLC,
Interfor Corporation
Interfor Corporation is one of the largest lumber producers in the world. The company's sawmilling operations have a combined manufacturing capacity of over 3 billion board feet of lumber with sales to North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Inte ...
,
Kapstone,
Louisiana Pacific
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, commonly known as "LP", is an American building materials manufacturer. It was founded in 1973 and is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. LP pioneered the U.S. production of oriented strand board (OSB) panels. ...
,
Masonite
Masonite is a type of hardboard, a kind of engineered wood, which is made of steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood fibers in a process patented by William H. Mason. It is also called Quartrboard, Isorel, hernit, karlit, torex, treetex, and ...
,
Norbord
Norbord Inc. was a Canadian company that manufactured wood-based panels and became the world's largest producer of oriented strand board (OSB). Norbord also manufactured particleboard, medium-density fibreboard (MDF) and related value-added produ ...
Inc.,
Plum Creek Timber
Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. was a timberland owner and manager, as well as a forest products, mineral extraction, and property development company, until it merged with Weyerhaeuser Company. It was headquartered in Suite 3100 at 601 Union ...
,
Potlatch Corp.,
Sierra Pacific Industries
Sierra Pacific Industries is the second-largest lumber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into dimensional lumber, including beams and planks or boards, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for construc ...
,
West Fraser, West Rock Company,
Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser () is an American timberland company which owns nearly of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. The company also manufactures wood products. It operates as a real e ...
Company, and the Canadian Wood Council.
History
AWC was re-chartered in June 2010, with a broader mandate than a former predecessor namesake. Up until 2010, the wood products industry was represented by the
American Forest & Paper Association
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the paper and wood products industry.
AF&PA was formed on January 1, 1993, by the merger of the National Forest Product Association and the American Paper Ins ...
(AF&PA), which now represents pulp and paper manufacturers.
References
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External links
American Wood Council organizational website
Softwood Lumber BoardReuse Wood DirectoryAmerican Forest & Paper AssociationAbout AWC
Trade associations based in the United States
Timber industry