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Chester Wood Products
LLC
1445 Lancaster HWY
Chester, SC 29706
Chester Wood Products LCC ("Chester") is a manufacturing complex located in Chester, South Carolina consisting of a plywood mill with 260,000 MSF of capacity and a saw mill with 60,000 MBF of capacity.
Chester produces Southern Pine sheathing plywood with panels ranging from 3/8" to 3/4" thick and predominantly 2x6 and 4x4 Southern Pine lumber.
The plywood mill was constructed in 1980 and the saw mill was constructed in 2000.
Chester was purchased by Weyerhaeuser as part of its acquisition of Willamette Industries in 2002. Willamette Industries invested approximately $15 million in the construction of the saw mill, which was built to process plywood cores, but can also process pulpwood logs.
Chester was acquired by Wood Resources LLC in December of 2004.
Chester is non-union and has approximately 350 employees.
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