by Kirkland | Sep 19, 2023 | News
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...
by Kirkland | Sep 15, 2023 | News
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...
by Kirkland | Sep 13, 2023 | News
West Fraser To Acquire Spray Lake Sawmills West Fraser has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Spray Lake Sawmills located in Cochrane, Alberta subject to certain post-closing adjustments. Spray Lake Sawmills produces treated wood products,...
by Kirkland | Sep 7, 2023 | News
Processing Technologies for the Forest and Bio-based Products Industries Announces 2023 Dates The 7th biennial international Processing Technologies for the Forest and Bio-based Products Industries (PTF BPI) 2023 Conference will be held October 30 to Nov. 1, 2023 in...
by Kirkland | Sep 7, 2023 | News
GP Donates $100,000 To Volunteer Fire Department In Corrigan, Texas The Corrigan Volunteer Fire Department, which has close to 25 active volunteers and answered more than 150 emergency calls in 2022, has kicked off a capital campaign to build a new fire station, which...
by Kirkland | Sep 7, 2023 | News
Nashville Sets Perfect Stage For Lumber Conference Lumber producers who made the trek to Room 205 and the 2023 Productivity & Efficiency Conference produced by Timber Processing and sponsored by Southern Forest Products Assn. (SFPA) were not disappointed as the...
