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Sierra Pacific Industries Announces New Sawmills

Sierra Pacific Industries Announces New Sawmills   Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) plans to build a new sawmill complex, including two new sawmills located adjacent each other on the east side of its existing site in Eugene, Ore., eventually operating under one...

Mendocino Companies Expands In Utah

Mendocino Companies Expands In Utah   Mendocino Companies purchased the assets of Utah Wood Preserving (UWP) and portions of its affiliates. UWP’s manufacturing facility in Woods Cross, Utah, is a well-maintained preservative treating plant on a large, fully...

Structurlam Looks To Reboot

Structurlam Looks To Reboot   The temporary closure of Structurlam Mass Timber’s Conway, Ark. cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam plant and the apparent severing of the plant’s relationship as a major supplier for Walmart’s new low carbon footprint and energy...

Coalition Supports Duty Upgrade

Coalition Supports Duty Upgrade   U.S. Dept. of Commerce announced the preliminary determination of a combined anti-subsidy and anti-dumping duty rate of 8.24% in the fourth annual review of allegedly subsidized traded Canadian softwood lumber imports into the...

Canfor Plans New BC Sawmill

Canfor Plans New BC Sawmill   Canfor Corp. stated that to better align manufacturing capacity in British Columbia with the available long-term fiber supply, it is restructuring its BC operations by permanently closing its Chetwynd sawmill and pellet plant and...
U.S. Housing Starts Were Soft In January

U.S. Housing Starts Were Soft In January

U.S. Housing Starts Were Soft In January   U.S. housing starts began the new year ticking downward 4.5% in January from December to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.309 million starts. Single-family starts came in at a rate of 841,000 in January, down 4.3%, while...