Cosakita18 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:41 am
Best case scenario would be for this OSB facility to bring in adhesives and send out centerbeams. There's not much detail about the planned scale of the facility but this certainly better than letting the site get overrun by the service sector and light industry.
As well as propane, New Limerick and until recently Easton both got LPG on top of the adhesives by rail. As for the finished product, I believe OSB is shipped in boxcars, at least the stuff from Easton is. That protects the product from rain and in climate weather a lot better.
But the construction of a new OSB plant is an interesting choice. Considering New Limerick was converted to making LP siding due to the lack of a demand for OSB in 2022, which that has also impacted Huber in Easton which I think scaled back production two years ago. Not to mention the OSB plant in Woodland which closed about 15 years ago, which had its equipment scrapped in the not too recent past. Maybe they are intending on making some sort of OSB related product, but if they intend on making traditional OSB it seems like an odd move considering the industry shift in the area.