Roseburg names new director of chip business
Roseburg Resources, a division of Roseburg Forest Products, has promoted Keith Eibel to the position of director of Roseburg’s chip business and the company's Coos Bay Shipping Terminal.
“Keith has been instrumental in establishing Roseburg as the largest exporter of wood chips in North America,” said Scott Folk, senior VP of Roseburg Resources. “He has spearheaded our strategy to successfully grow and diversify our chip business, and under his leadership, we have become a major player in the Japanese chip market.”
Eibel joined the company in 2008 as the manager of Roseburg’s chip business. His expanded duties now include the procurement and sale of chips to both international and domestic customers, the operations of Roseburg’s Coos Bay shipping terminal, and responsibility for Roseburg’s western fiber business including sawdust, shavings, and woody biomass.
Prior to joining Roseburg, Eibel spent six years as chip manager for Weyerhaeuser and managed chip procurement for the company’s Albany and Springfield pulp mills. He worked for Willamette Industries for 23 years, primarily as fiber procurement manager.
Based in Springfield, Ore., Roseburg Forest Products is a privately-owned company and one of North America’s leading producers of particleboard, medium density fiberboard and thermally fused laminates. Roseburg also manufactures softwood and hardwood plywood, lumber, LVL, and I-joists. The company owns and manages more than 600,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, North Carolina and Virginia, along with its export wood chip terminal facility in Coos Bay, Ore.
“Keith has been instrumental in establishing Roseburg as the largest exporter of wood chips in North America,” said Scott Folk, senior VP of Roseburg Resources. “He has spearheaded our strategy to successfully grow and diversify our chip business, and under his leadership, we have become a major player in the Japanese chip market.”
Eibel joined the company in 2008 as the manager of Roseburg’s chip business. His expanded duties now include the procurement and sale of chips to both international and domestic customers, the operations of Roseburg’s Coos Bay shipping terminal, and responsibility for Roseburg’s western fiber business including sawdust, shavings, and woody biomass.
Prior to joining Roseburg, Eibel spent six years as chip manager for Weyerhaeuser and managed chip procurement for the company’s Albany and Springfield pulp mills. He worked for Willamette Industries for 23 years, primarily as fiber procurement manager.
Based in Springfield, Ore., Roseburg Forest Products is a privately-owned company and one of North America’s leading producers of particleboard, medium density fiberboard and thermally fused laminates. Roseburg also manufactures softwood and hardwood plywood, lumber, LVL, and I-joists. The company owns and manages more than 600,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, North Carolina and Virginia, along with its export wood chip terminal facility in Coos Bay, Ore.