Weyerhaeuser Company grows and harvests trees, builds homes, and manufactures forest products worldwide. The company manages approximately 6.6 million acres of private commercial forestland; and has renewable long-term licenses on 15.2 million acres of forestland. It grows and harvests trees for use as lumber, pulp and paper, and other wood and building products; and offers logs, timber, minerals, oil, gas, seed and seedlings, and poles, as well as plywood and hardwood lumber. The company also manufactures and distributes softwood lumber, engineered lumber, structural panels, and other specialty products to the residential structural frame market; delivers homebuilding solutions; and manufactures and sells hardwood lumber to manufacturers of furniture and cabinetry, as well as exports engineered building materials and industrial hardwood products. It sells its wood products primarily through its sales organizations and distribution facilities, as well as markets its wood products into the repair and remodel market through the wood preserving and home-improvement warehouse channels. In addition, Weyerhaeuser Company provides cellulose fibers, such as fluff pulp, paper grade pulp, specialty chemical cellulose pulp, slush pulp, and wet lap pulp for absorbent products; and manufactures liquid packaging boards used primarily for the production of containers for liquid products. Further, it constructs single-family housing, and develops residential lots for its use and for sale. The company was formerly known as Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and changed its name to Weyerhaeuser Company. Weyerhaeuser Company was founded in 1900 and is based in Federal Way, Washington.
