Louisiana-Pacific Corp.Louisiana-Pacific Corp. (L-P), Portland, Oregon, USA, will be taking 65-70 days of downtime for scheduled maintenance and other projects among 12 of its 15 North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. oriented strand board Oriented strand board, or OSB, or waferboard, or Sterling board (UK), is an engineered wood product formed by layering strands (flakes) of wood in specific orientations. (OSB OSB abbr. Order of Saint Benedict ) facilities. The downtime will occur between late November and the end of 2002. L-P's Chambord, Quebec, Canada, mill remains curtailed due to an employee strike that began May 24, 2002. Its newly acquired Woodland, Maine, USA, mill remains idle. In addition: L-P says it will not pursue planned construction of an oriented strand board (OSB) mill on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec due to continued oversupply in the OSB market. LP will record a noncash charge of about US$ 17 million to write-off the now-expired Canadian forest timber licenses acquired in connection with L-P's purchase of Le Groupe Forex Forex See: Foreign exchange in 1999. |
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