110 jobs lost in White City - Mail Tribune

09.01.09

Boise Cascade's White City plywood plant is capable of producing enough panels for 21,000 average-sized houses per year.

Housing slump hit plywood plant from two sides

The plywood plant on 73.5 acres along Antelope Road in White City began production in 1962. Boise Cascade bought the mill from Gold Rey Forest Products in 1977.

Bob Smith, Boise Cascade's Western Oregon Region spokesman, said the decline in the residential housing market was manifested in two ways.

A half-century ago, the average house in the U.S. was 1,100 square feet, according to research in the Journal of Industrial Ecology. In this decade, the average house is between 2,300 and 2,400 square feet. National Association of Home Builders figures show a typical 2,082-square-foot home requires 11,550 square feet of plywood or oriented-strand board.

"Not only has the number of new housing starts dropped, but the size of the homes today is bigger than during the last recession," Smith said. "So, it's a double-whammy relative to wood products demand when housing starts drop. For example, it probably takes as much or more wood to build a single-family home on upper Hillcrest today as it did to build two homes closer to the older sections of Medford."

Source: Mail Tribune, OR

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