Spi'lyy Tymoo, Wqrrn Springs, Oregon
April 14, 2005
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Composite Products
acquires new division
By Brian Mortcnsen
Spilyay Tymoo
One piece of wood with
a wavy edge is responsible
for employing seven mem
bers of the Confederated
Tribes, and even more may
be put to work.
Warm Springs Compos
ite Products, a maker of
components for fire doors
and fire door jambs, recently
purchased the closure strip
division of Millstone Indus
tries of Redmond.
The move included bring
ing all of the closure strip
equipment to Warm
Springs, and with it
Millstone's plant manager.
The move also resulted in
the hiring of seven tribal
members.
"The reason we did this,"
said Duane Darnell, chief
executive officer of Warm
Springs Composite Prod
ucts, "is, number one, we
can utilize recovery waste,
and Forest Products Indus
tries doesn't have a recov
ery waste program.
"We hooked together
with them and started doing
some testing with some of
the waste material and it
worked fine, so we went and
bought the company."
Composite Products kept the
operation running in Redmond
until it was moved to its loca
tion in Warm Springs.
Before the plant was made
ready in Warm Springs, Com
posite Products employees
slated to work in the new divi
sion, the Millstone Division of
Composite Products, went to
Redmond for a month of train
ing on the new equipment.
liven more important than
creating a useful outlet for
Warm Springs Forest Products
Industries' (WSFPI) waste
wood, Darnell said, is putting
people to work.
"Our mission at Composite
Products is to create jobs, and
we do that by growing a busi
ness," he said. "To grow a busi
ness, you have to make it stable
first, and then you can start
growing into these other by
products." This by-product, the closure
strip, is marketed and sold to
suppliers for lumberyards and
box stores like 1 lome Depot and
Lowe's, a base of "about seven
to eight customers," Darnell said.
"It's a not a big market,"
Darnell said. "The people that
buy it are people who put up
these corrugated panels, and
they go over your patio, or
they can go as a skylight on
an industrial building, or a side
light panel."
They look quite simple. A
thin piece of wood, maybe an
inch thick, with an undulat
ing pattern cut on one of its
edges.
The Millstone division uses
a band saw with adjustable
moving parts that move the
saw blade to create the pre
cise patterns to fit any corru
gated surface to provide more
support.
"Then they can screw right
through the top, right into
these slopes," Darnell said.
"It's been around for 40 years.
It was actually developed by a
guy over in Bend. They went
bankrupt, and Millstone
bought this and a couple other
businesses, and we ended up
buying this division of Mill
stone." Millstone had been buying
lumber from Canada, and still
making a profit. Darnell said
Composite Products could
also generate a profit by using
waste wood from WSFPI.
"Our vision is, if they could
make this pay, then we can
also," he said.
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Community events calendar
The Celilo, Salmon
and Smoke lecture se
ries continues on May 19
with the topic: Catching up
with Kenniwick Man, where
the court case stands now.
Speaker will be Roberta
Kirk, representative of the
Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation
Act. The lecture Is at noon
on May 19 at High Lookee
Lodge. Call 553-1182 to
make an appointment.
Bring lunch or be served at
the lodge for $3. This Is a
program of the Central Or
egon Community College
Continuing Education pro
gram.
There will be a class, The
Mystique of Infants and
Toddlers, from 9 a.m. till 4
p.m. on Friday, April 22 In the
Early Childhood Education
building. The instructor will be
Edith Jones. Cost is $29. The
class will help you understand
the way, what and how of early
childhood, so that you can ap
preciate the magic of this age.
Call Central Oregon Commu
nity College Educational Ser
vices for information, 553
1428. The Warm Springs Exten
sion Office of Oregon State
University Is presenting a
Seekaetqua family
learning aesalon this
evening Thursday, April 14,
at the Seekseequa Fire Sta
tion. Dinner is from 5:30 to
6:30 with the learning ses
sions beginning at 7. There
will a lesson on horse
anatomy, plus tips from
Master Gardeners. The
meeting is to bring learning
to all ages In the
Seekseequa area. Future
activities are being planned
for Kah-Nee-Ta, Wolfe Point
and the Sunnyslde areas.
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