by Kirkland | Oct 24, 2022 | News
Valutec TC Kilns See North American Success As a leading developer and world leader in continuous dry kilns Valutec has delivered more than 2,000 continuous kilns to sawmills around the world. In 2020, the company commissioned North America’s first TC continuous...
by Kirkland | Oct 19, 2022 | News
SmartLam Plans Glulam Facility SmartLam North America, reportedly the largest manufacturer in North America of cross-laminated timber (CLT), announced it will build a $50 million glulam manufacturing facility in Dothan, Ala. The new SmartLam facility, to be built...
by Kirkland | Oct 19, 2022 | News
Peak Announces SYP Pellet Mill Vancouver, Canada-based Peak Renewables plans to build a 180,000 metric tons per year wood pellet mill in Dothan, Ala. The $30 million project will utilize residuals from Rex Lumber sawmills in the area. Construction on the facility is...
by Kirkland | Oct 19, 2022 | News
U.S. Housing Starts Dip In September, Both Single-Family & Multi-Family Soften U.S. housing starts dropped 8.1% in September from August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.439 million, including a drop in single-family starts of 4.7% to 892,000 and a...
by Kirkland | Oct 5, 2022 | News
Interfor To Acquire Chaleur Forest Products Interfor announced that it has reached an agreement with an affiliate of the Kilmer Group to acquire 100% of the equity interests in the entities comprising Chaleur Forest Products. Chaleur owns two modern and...
by Kirkland | Oct 4, 2022 | Magazine
OCTOBER 2022 Cover: It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad SYP Sawmill World Announcements of new southern yellow pine sawmills to be built hardly register on the Richter scale anymore. That’s because such announcements from numerous companies during the past decade have,...