by Kirkland | Jun 1, 2023 | Magazine
JUNE 2023 Cover: Softwood Lumbermen Tone Down Optimism . . . So Do Hardwooders While U.S. softwood lumbermen aren’t as upbeat as a year ago, they’re still upgrading their mills, and maybe building new ones. Market conditions are getting tougher and many...
by Kirkland | May 1, 2023 | Magazine
MAY 2023 Cover: GP Plays Steady Hand At Gurdon GURDON, Arkansas – Like many manufacturing complexes of a certain age, Georgia-Pacific’s Gurdon site serves multiple purposes. Having started out solely as a plywood plant with a hog making chips for paper, the site has...
by Kirkland | Apr 5, 2023 | Magazine
APRIL 2023 Cover: Sierra Pacific-Noti Prefers To Play With Stacked Deck NOTI, Oregon – Recent improvements at Sierra-Pacific’s Noti mill 25 miles west of Eugene, Oregon have boosted efficiency and quality at the facility that produces all-green, 100% Douglas fir...
by Kirkland | Mar 6, 2023 | Magazine
March 2023 Cover: Charles Ingram Adjusts To ‘Larger’ Small Logs EFFINGHAM, South Carolina – Achieving success is difficult enough in the first place; maintaining it over the long haul can be even trickier. To do so, businesses often find it necessary to...
by Kirkland | Feb 2, 2023 | Magazine
January/February 2023 Cover: 2023 PERSON(S) OF THE YEAR DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine – While greenfield sawmill announcements have dominated the sawmill news cycle in recent years, another approach was being executed in the Northeastern corner of the U.S., where Pleasant...
by Kirkland | Dec 9, 2022 | Magazine
DECEMBER 2022 Cover: Tri-State Puts Finishing Touch On Timbers FULTON, Mississippi – As more and more greenfield and brownfield sawmills dot the landscape of the South, many smaller, independent mills are finding themselves having to get creative to keep up. Some are...