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Dues Structure
CATEGORY 1
Pulp & Paper Companies: $0.009
per ton of North Carolina wood consumed, including purchased and/or delivered wood and/or wood chips for primary processing.
CATEGORY 2
Bio Energy: $0.009 per ton of all fiber procured for energy purposes, whether it is used on-site or for production of an energy product.
CATEGORY 3
Chip Mills: $0.0022 per ton for independent chip mills supplying manufacturing plants such as paper mills, high density and/or medium density mills, and/or bio-energy mills.
CATEGORY 4
Saw Mills: $0.066 per 1,000 board feet with no minimum. Board foot is based on production.
CATEGORY 5
Secondary Manufacturing:
$330 for sales under $5 million and $660 for sales over $5 million. This category includes dry-kiln operations, furniture mills, log homes, lumber sales operations, pallet mills and treating facilities.
CATEGORY 6
Engineered Wood: $0.009 per
ton for fiberboard mills, hardboard siding, oriented strand board mills, particleboard mills. $300 plus $0.02 per thousand square foot
for plywood mills based on
(3/8”) production.
CATEGORY 7
Dealers, Wood Suppliers: $220 plus $0.0022 per ton over 150,000 tons shipped, including chips, pulpwood and other fiber.
CATEGORY 8
Logging Companies: $220 plus $0.0022 per ton for all tons produced, including chips, pulpwood and logs. A rate of $.0022/150 board foot per ton could also be used.
CATEGORY 9
Transportation Companies: $220 plus $0.0022 per ton transported with a maximum of $600.
CATEGORY 10
Landowners: $50 plus $0.025
per acre of forestland owned over 500 acres.
CATEGORY 11
Individual: $50 per year. While we encourage the individual membership, we do not condone employees of companies joining as an individual, then subsequently representing that non-member company at NCFA- sponsored events.
CATEGORY 12
Hunt Clubs: $75 per year. CATEGORY 13
Consulting Forestry Entities:
$110 plus $50 for each additional forester in group.
CATEGORY 14
By Products: $220 for sales volume less than $250,000. $330 for sales volume between $250,000 and $500,000. $440 for sales volume greater than $500,000. This diverse group includes arborists, bedding, firewood, mulch, pine straw, shavings.
CATEGORY 15
Forestry Equipment Manufacturing:
$330 for sales less than $5 million annually. $660 for sales greater than $5 million annually.
CATEGORY 16
ProLogger: $110 per year. CATEGORY 17
Service & Non-profits: $125 per year. This category includes financial and investment institutions, government agencies and software companies, and any other miscellaneous company working with the forest products industry in North Carolina.
CATEGORY 18
Students: $25 per year.
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