by Kirkland | Jun 20, 2023 | News
Timberlab Opens Glulam Facility Timberlab, a nationwide provider of mass timber systems, is opening its second glued laminated timber fabrication facility in Greenville, SC. Timberlab’s goal is to provide the Eastern U.S. with a more regional platform for a...
by Kirkland | Jun 20, 2023 | News
Housing Starts Come On Like Gangbusters U.S. housing starts, both single-family and multi-family, came in hot in May at a combined seasonally adjusted rate of 1.631 million, a 21.7% increase above April. Single-family starts in May were at a rate of 997,000 an 18.5%...
by Kirkland | Jun 20, 2023 | News
Robbins Lumber Acquires Two Sawmills In Maine Robbins Lumber, Inc., based in Searsmont, Me., has acquired two sawmills from Pleasant River Lumber Co., expanding the company’s footprint from two locations to four locations. The sawmills in Hancock and Sanford, Maine,...
by Kirkland | Jun 20, 2023 | News
Luoma Announces Retirement Longtime executive and manager in the wood products industry, for years with LP, Brian Luoma announced he is retiring at the end of 2023 from his position as president and CEO of The Westervelt Co. Luoma joined Alabama-based Westervelt as...
by Kirkland | Jun 19, 2023 | The Issues
Maybe The Markets Will Surprise Us Once Again Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing June 2023 If you didn’t notice it on the cover, your eyes are getting as bad as mine, but yes this is our annual U.S. Sawmill Operations and Capital Expenditure...
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...
