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Chris Brown Assumes Role As Mid-South President

Chris Brown Assumes Role As Mid-South President Mid-South Engineering recently bid a happy retirement to President Marc Stewart after 27 years with the company. "Leaving my daily interactions with this team leaves a Mid-South-logo-shaped hole in my...

U.S. Lumber Coalition Sends Letter Highlighting Trade Law Enforcement Success

U.S. Lumber Coalition Sends Letter Highlighting Trade Law Enforcement SuccessIn a letter to President Trump, the U.S. Lumber Coalition highlights the great success of the enforcement of the U.S. trade laws that has added 8 billion BF of production...

Canfor Hosts Open House At New Alabama Sawmill 

Canfor Hosts Open House At New Alabama SawmillCanfor Southern Pine held an opening ceremony in early February at its new $210 million, 250MMBF annual production capacity southern yellow pine sawmill in Axis, Ala., about 20 miles north of Canfor’s...

Finnish Sawmill Luvia Saha Upgrades Dry Kilns

Finnish Sawmill Luvia Saha Upgrades Dry KilnsWith the goal of increasing drying capacity, Finnish sawmill company Luvian Saha Oy has invested in one new FB-continuous kiln and the modernization of three older continuous kilns from Valutec, and...

Stimson, IDL Agreement Protects Idaho Forest

Stimson, IDL Agreement Protects Idaho ForestA group including Stimson Lumber Co., the Idaho Dept. of Lands (IDL), and non-profit Trust for Public Land recently announced an easement agreement that will protect 10,846 acres of working forests in...

SPONSORED CONTENT: McDonough Manufacturing — Family-Owned, Quality Over quantity

For over 135 years, McDonough Manufacturing has been the trusted name in band mills—not just because we build great equipment, but because we understand what sawmills need.

SPONSORED CONTENT: From Scrap to Solution: Vecoplan Processing Systems

Managing wood scrap and waste is a persistent and growing challenge for wood processors. Rising disposal costs, increasingly stringent sustainability requirements, and the inefficiencies caused by unused wood waste are placing significant pressure on businesses.

Mill Companies Announce Investments; Acquisitions; Sales 

Mill Companies Announce Investments; Acquisitions; Sales  Precisions Hardwoods Invests In Technology Upgrades  Located in northern Michigan in the small town of Onaway, Precision Hardwoods is moving ahead on a $12 million expansion project that...

Roseburg Personnel Changes At Dillard Lumber, Medford MDF, Riddle Plywood 

Roseburg Personnel Changes At Dillard Lumber, Medford MDF, Riddle PlywoodRoseburg Forest Products has made key personnel decisions at three of its wood processing facilities in Oregon. Kendrick McBride returns to Dillard Lumber in Roseburg, Ore.,...

7robotics Promotes Joey Koenig To President

7robotics Promotes Joey Koenig To President7robotics has promoted Joey Koenig to President, effective January 1, 2025. Since joining the company in September 2021, Koenig has been instrumental in transforming 7robotics from a startup into a...

Acres Partners With Forisk

Acres, a data-driven land research platform that supports fast, informed decision making, is partnering with Forisk Consulting, a leader in analyzing timber markets and wood baskets, to visualize timber data for both companies’ clients. This collaboration between Acres and Forisk will further expand Acres’ capacity to provide and visualize important information on U.S. timberland through its powerful land valuation tool.

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Tolko Names New Chief Operating Officer

Brad Thorlakson, President and CEO of Tolko Industries, has announced that Pino Pucci, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Logistics will assume a newly created interim role as Tolko’s Chief Operating Officer. “This role has been created to support our succession planning process, as Pino will eventually succeed me as President & CEO,” Thorlakson says. “Pino’s proven leadership experience, significant focus on people and…

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Polish Glulam, German CLT Projects Pick Minda

As a specialist in engineered wood production lines, Minda has been a perfect partner for green and brownfield projects for more than 40 years. One of the last brownfield projects was the extension of a glulam line in Poland for Andrewex Construction, the biggest manufacturer of glulam in Poland with more than 30 years of experience…

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Lumber Quality Workshops Announced

Terry Brown and the Lumber Quality Institute will again offer two lumber quality-related workshops in Salem, Ore. for the sawmill industry in November 2023. The Lumber Quality and Process Control Workshop will be held November 6-7, and the Lumber Quality Leadership Workshop will be held November 8-9…

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U.S. Housing Starts Fall While Building Permits Rise

U.S. housing starts fell in August from July, at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.283 million, down 11.3%. Single-family starts were at a rate of 941,000, 4.3% below July, while multi-family starts were the primary culprit at 334,000, down 26.3%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development monthly new residential construction report…

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Canfor Puts ‘Stock’ In New BC Facility

Vancouver, BC-based Canfor Corp. is investing $200 million to build a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Houston, British Columbia, which will have an annual production capacity of 350MMBF. “I’m very pleased to be making this announcement in British Columbia, where Canfor has been proudly headquartered for 85 years,” comments Don Kayne, President and CEO. “This decision comes following…

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