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Article: CEO of Washington forest products firm Weyerhaeuser eyes Southern Hemisphere.
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- Article date:
- July 25, 2004
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By Marcelene Edwards, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 25--When Steve Rogel looks around for new places to plant Weyerhaeuser Co. trees, the CEO is drawn to the Southern Hemisphere -- places where trees grow two or three times faster than in Washington.
He can get plywood from a eucalyptus tree in Uruguay in 16 years -- half the time it takes for the same tree to grow at the company's tree farms in the American South.
That -- along with lower labor costs -- means that products made out of those eucalyptus logs are cheaper.
"We have growth opportunities in North America, but in a way they are ...
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