March 20, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Rebecca Taylor, Corporate Communications Director
desk: (541) 679-2614, cell: (541) 513-1038
rebeccat@rfpco.com

ROSEBURG TO END OPERATIONS AT MISSOULA, MT, PARTICLEBOARD

PLANT, PERMANENTLY CLOSE FACILITY
Springfield, Ore. – Roseburg announced today that it will permanently end operations at its Missoula,
Mont., particleboard plant on May 22, 2024. The closure is the final step in the company’s strategic plan
to exit the particleboard manufacturing business and focus resources on other product segments,
including MDF, engineered wood, plywood, and lumber.
Roseburg acquired the Missoula particleboard plant from Louisiana-Pacific in 2003 in an expansion of the
company’s composite panel business. Built in 1969, the age of the manufacturing platform created
challenges as the mill competed with more modern plants.
“The decision to permanently close a plant is always difficult. It is especially difficult with our Missoula
operation as we complete our exit from the particleboard marketplace,” Roseburg’s President and CEO
Stuart Gray said. “Unfortunately, Missoula’s older platform and technology is simply not competitive from
a cost structure perspective in a marketplace with many new, modern particleboard facilities.
“We know this closure will have a significant impact on our team members there, and thus, our primary
objective with this closure is to assist them through this transition as smoothly as possible,” Gray said.
The plant currently employs approximately 150 team members. Roseburg will work closely with local
resources to assist affected team members as the closure date approaches.
Roseburg is heavily invested in the composites industry, with manufacturing across North America. The
company recently announced a $700 million investment in manufacturing in Oregon, including a new
plant, Dillard MDF, which will make both medium- and high-density fiberboard, and Dillard Components,
which will produce exterior trim. Construction of its Roanoke Valley Lumber mill in Weldon, N.C., is
nearing completion, with sales of dimensional lumber underway.

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About Roseburg Forest Products

Founded in 1936, Roseburg Forest Products is a privately-owned company and one of North America’s
leading producers of medium density fiberboard, softwood and hardwood plywood, lumber, LVL and I-
joists. The company owns and sustainably manages more than 600,000 acres of timberland in Oregon,
North Carolina and Virginia, as well as an export wood chip terminal facility in Coos Bay, Ore. Roseburg
products are shipped throughout North America and the Pacific Rim. To learn more about the company
please visit www.Roseburg.com.