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January/February 2023

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...

Lumber Among Three Big Input Reductions

Lumber Among Three Big Input Reductions   Softwood lumber is one of the three largest construction input cost reductions year-over-year from December 2021 to December 2022, according to a recent ConstructionDive market report. Citing Producer Price Index data...

Biofuels Project Sinks

Biofuels Project Sinks   The Red Rock Biofuels project in southern Oregon appears headed for foreclosure according to notices published in the Lake County Examiner newspaper in late December after the company failed to make principal and interest payments on some...

Opticom Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Opticom Celebrates 50th Anniversary   Opticom Technologies, a leader in industrial video monitoring solutions, is celebrating 50 years in business. The company, founded in 1973, has evolved to continue offering innovative products as video monitoring technology...

Structurlam Temporarily Suspends Arkansas Operations

Structurlam Temporarily Suspends Arkansas Operations   Structurlam Mass Timber Corp., a mass timber manufacturer in North America, has announced it is temporarily suspending operations and reducing staff at its Conway, Ark., plant due to a customer contract...

Vaagen Puts Emphasis On Midway Closure

Vaagen Puts Emphasis On Midway Closure   Vaagen Fibre Canada (an affiliate of Vaagen Brothers Lumber) announced it is shutting down its Midway, BC sawmill indefinitely, while indicating it is looking for solutions to keep the operation going, and encouraging...