An Arkansas sawmill that closed last summer is due to reopen today.
Curt Bean Lumber Co’s Glenwood mill is scheduled to restart operations on May 5, with around 150 people brought back in to the plant. Some 250 jobs were lost when the mill originally closed last year.
The reopening of the mill comes as a number of mills are wound down across North America, including Weyerhaeuser Company’s Kamloops mill and Green Mountain sawmill and iLevel Veneer Technologies facility.
Curt Bean Lumber claims to be one of the largest independently owned southern pine manufacturers in the US. The firm and its sister company Bean Lumber have three locations across Arkansas and Missouri, which produce more than 150 million board feet of pine lumber and 120 million feet of treated lumber annually.
