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Mill moving forward.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 25-DEC-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Mill moving forward.(Business)(While most companies are cutting back, Swanson Group is building up)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard

When Swanson Group, a wood products company based near Grants Pass, bought McKenzie Forest Products' Springfield plywood mill last year, Swanson's owners knew the facility would need a lot of work to bring it up to company standards.

The mill had passed through a number of owners, but "there hasn't been a lot of money put into that facility since Georgia-Pacific owned it in the 1960s," president Steve Swanson said.

That was before the prolonged slump in the national housing market, the unprecedented downturn in lumber consumption, and the national financial crisis, which helped push the country into recession.

"Every once in a while in a lifetime you get something you've never experienced or never expected, and that's where we are," said Paul Ehinger, a Eugene-based timber industry analyst who has...

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