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First Russell, now Blue Box Group. Or first The Northern Pacific, then Weyerhaeuser, then Russell, now Blue Box Group.The Tacoma-based and -born Web hosting and specialty application firm has announced that it has left Tacoma in favor of Seattle.All ...

topics: pioneer-square, tacoma, technology, weyerhaeuser

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Federal Way's Weyerhaeuser Co. said today it has completed the sale of its commercial construction products business to a subsidiary of Atlas Holdings LLC.The deal includes four manufacturing plants focused on the commercial construction market. Thos...

topics: business, federal-way, weyerhaeuser

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Federal Way's Weyerhaeuser Co. expects the sale of 140,000 acres of timberland in northwest Oregon will add $100 million to the company's earnings in the third quarter.The forest products company is selling the land to Portland-based The Campbell Gro...

topics: federal-way, weyerhaeuser

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Credit Suisse downgraded Federal Way-based Weyerhaeuser Co.'s stock today from neutral to underperform, but the company's stock rose more than $2.00 a share.The company Monday reported losses of 59 cents a share, but that was better than Wall Str...

topics: federal-way, weyerhaeuser

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Federal Way's Weyerhaeuser Co. and an Austrian company, Lenzing, are collaborating on a project to develop new non-woven fabric directly from fibers made from wood.The two companies will build a pilot plant in Lenzing, Austria, to produce experimenta...

topics: federal-way, technology, weyerhaeuser

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Saturday I finally got to the Henry Art Gallery to see the exhibition of the UW MFA grads the only graduate students in art in Seattle. (Whether you think grad school in art is essential or ridiculous this is still the only program around. My opini...

topics: artist, gallery, henry-art-gallery, photography, weyerhaeuser

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Weyerhaeuser Co. posted losses today of more than a quarter billion dollars as nearly every segment of its business declined from a year earlier.The good news from the earnings announcement this morning is that the Federal Way-based timber company's ...

topics: business, federal-way, weyerhaeuser

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The housing slump continues to take casualties among timber workers in Washington as Weyerhaeuser Co. and union representatives met today in Vancouver to discuss layoffs among logging workers.Those cutbacks could lead to the loss of 160 jobs in the ...

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Federal Way's Weyerhaeuser Co. will freeze temporarily its company match of employee 401K retirement savings contributions beginning May 1.The timber and housing giant announced the change in a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commissi...

topics: federal-way, weyerhaeuser

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Will the Weyerhaeuser Co. we know today resemble the company that operates in the post-recession economy?The company's CEO, Dan Fulton, addressed that question in remarks to reporters recently. But we didn't have room in the paper to publish all of h...

topics: business, economy, weyerhaeuser