Rosboro Closes Springfield, Oregon, Stud Mill; Plans to Reopen in Two Years as Glulam Facility

Greater details have become available regarding Rosboro Company’s recent announcement that it was temporarily closing its Springfield, Oregon, stud sawmill, according to reporting by The Register-Guard (2-9-24). About 25 employees will be laid off.

The company plans to eventually reopen the facility and rehire workers in about two years after changing the mill to focus on producing glue-laminated timber, instead of timber studs for home framing, Rosboro senior vice president Brian Wells told The Register-Guard. The two-year hiatus at the mill wasn’t planned but came as a result of it becoming increasingly expensive to harvest timber in Oregon due to new regulations, Wells added.

Wells said Rosboro would focus on their core business of glulam and is in the process of investing $100 million into facilities that support that business. “The project will increase Rosboro’s vertically integrated glulam manufacturing capacity by 50%, and the stud mill will be a key piece to that puzzle.”

In the interim, Rosboro will continue to employ 295 Springfield employees and maintain operations at its lamstock mill, two planer mills, dry kilns, and three glulam manufacturing plants, according to The Register-Guard.