Santa Rosa, CA—Mendocino Companies, headquartered here, recently announced the promotion of Laurie Creech to executive vice president of supply chain and the appointment of Dennis Mazorra to sales director for domestic industrial and specialty products. Mendocino Companies takes in Allweather Wood, Humboldt Sawmill and Mendocino-Humboldt Redwood Companies.
Creech replaces Blair Buchanan, who worked for more than 40 years in the forest products industry and will continue with the company as a senior adviser. Creech will work in the Washougal, WA location. In her new role, she oversees sourcing lumber, planning and transportation. Early in her career, Creech worked for Weyerhaeuser Company as sales manager and purchasing manager. She moved to Simpson Lumber Company where she was director of sales and marketing. She returned to work at Weyerhaeuser Company before joining Mendocino Companies. Creech and her husband, Russell, have a grown son, Ian.
Mazorra recently joined Mendocino Companies’ Humboldt Sawmill in the sales director role, based in Scotia, CA. Mazorra’s first job in the industry was as a lumber salesman for Siskiyou Lumber. He recently worked for International Wood Products as Northern California sales manager. Mazorra played college football at Brigham Young University, where he graduated in 1982.
He and his wife, Joann, have three children, a son, Christopher, and daughters Natalie and Nicole, plus nine grandchildren.
Meanwhile, through the production of biochar, a byproduct of its Scotia, CA cogeneration plant, Humboldt Sawmill has obtained a European Biochar Certificate, the first U.S.-based company to do so.
The Humboldt Sawmill Company cogeneration plant produces biochar as a byproduct of energy production. Biochar is a charcoal-like substance that is a stable form of carbon. Over the last 10 years, understanding has accelerated in terms of how the health of soils can help mitigate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Biochar can be added to soils by farmers and other landowners to aid in water retention, nutrient conservation, beneficial microbial composition, and overall quantity of stable organic matter.
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