California Based OSB Manufacturing – Holy Grail of the OSB Industry?
In this blog post we explore the feasibility of manufacturing Oriented Strand Board (OSB) in Northern California. The blog is timely in the wake of the Carr, Camp, and Mendocino Complex wildfires that struck the region in 2018. Combined the three fires affected nearly 850,000 acres, destroyed nearly 21,000 structures, and tragically claimed nearly 100 human lives. OSB raw materials can include small diameter trees and OSB plants are large. Thus, developing a plant in Nort