Gary (20 years at CFP) & Abby Carte (3 years at CFP) Gary Carte joined Columbia Forest Products in 2005 after four years of searching for a stable company he could truly call home. As a former lin...
Nearly eight years ago, Columbia Forest Products (CFP) endeavored to learn more about the tens of thousands of cabinet makers, millworkers and crafts people (“shops”) served by our d...
When tackling an interior woodworking project, there are a number of raw materials to consider. When building cabinets, closets, shelves or furniture, many tradespeople reach for Hardwood Plywood or m...
“It’s about what we do when we’re not selling plywood.” Trevor Milkins has been selling hardwood plywood for Russell Plywood , a family-owned business located in Reading, Penns...
Columbia Forest Products is honored to have been included in the renovation of The Bay Area Discovery Museum , which is dedicated to interactive learning and play that sparks children’s interest...
Our lives’ dependence on the forests around us is mirrored by the intrinsic human need for artistic expression. However, the connection between wood and art goes beyond just this shared bond. Wo...
Significant change has occurred in the world of forestry over the past couple of decades. These changes often lead to greater results for landowners, manufacturers and wood product customers. Drones a...
Rev. Anthony Berry is a U.S. Army Veteran who served in Afghanistan (where he met his wife Jill) and is now a Master Rifle Instructor with the Carver High School (Winston-Salem, NC) JROTC program. He ...
Studio 804 is a not-for-profit organization made up of graduate students pursuing their master’s in architecture degrees from the University of Kansas. Professor Dan Rockhill started this initia...
Fred Mitchell, Columbia’s Value Stream Manager for Materials, has been forecasting, buying and grading face veneers for nearly 20 years. It’s a dynamic marketplace, subject to as many or m...
Serving our Natural Resources Significant Service is what gets us up in the morning and guides our every move and decision. In the last issue, I touched on our “P2/I...
I hope everyone had a great summer. Columbia Forest Products is gearing up for an exciting finish to the year! In addition to celebrating the 20th anniversary of EPA award-winning, soy-based PureBond&...
Now that kids of all ages are back to school, I thought it would be a good time to touch on the theme of education at Columbia Forest Products. We believe we’re at our best when we’re &ldq...
Charting our Digital Future… More and more, it’s clear that “visibility” is one of the biggest problems we have in the hardwood plywood (or overall building materials) market....
With the challenging conditions we’re constantly anticipating and adjusting to, the pace of the hardwood plywood business in 2022 sometimes makes you think about the “kindler, gentler, goo...
For some homeowners, a garage is simply a place to park their car. For many others, a garage is a workshop, art studio, sports cave or simply valuable storage space for tools, seasonal decorations and...
The success of a project is often determined by the material you’ve chosen to work with. High-quality plywood is an ideal material for both the construction and aesthetic design of any built-in,...
Last year, we featured a stunning DIY kitchen from Shara of Woodshop Diaries . Shara has completed a few other woodworking projects since then, and we caught up with her recently to see if she had any...
In the December edition of the Hardwood Herald, I noted, “the three primary channels of the hardwood plywood market (Distribution, OEM and Retail) behaved very differently in 2020 due to differi...
Supporting Disaster Victims in the Logging Community You may recall the tornadoes that devastated parts of Kentucky late last year, and the story about the Old Fort Caring Team’s response . ...