by Kirkland | Jul 19, 2022 | News
USNR Acquires Timber Automation USNR, a division of Wood Technologies International, has acquired Timber Automation, an industry leader in sawmill equipment and technology. The deal adds more than 250 employees and more than 200,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space....
by Kirkland | Jul 19, 2022 | News
U.S. Single-Family Housing Starts Dip, But Multi-Family Shows Strength U.S. housing starts continued to slip in June, coming in at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.559 million, which was down 2% from May and down 6.3% from June 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau...
by Kirkland | Jul 14, 2022 | News
Softwood Board, FS Announce Mass Timber Awards The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and USDA Forest Service recently awarded $2 million total to six projects that highlight innovative architectural design and mass timber’s significant role in carbon reduction. According to...
by Kirkland | Jul 11, 2022 | Machinery Row
HALCO Honored For Operations Research HALCO Software Systems was the recipient of the 2022 Omond Solandt Award in operations research from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS). This prestigious award, which has typically been awarded to much larger...
by Kirkland | Jul 11, 2022 | News
BID Group Purchasing Smith Sawmill Service BID Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Smith Sawmill Service. The transaction further expands BID’s product and service offerings to include the essential recurring saw and tooling capabilities required to support...
by Kirkland | Jul 7, 2022 | Machinery Row
JoeScan To Debut New Scan Heads The sawmill scanning experts at JoeScan will soon bring the proven simplicity of their JS-50 scan head to more parts of the sawmill. “Mills love how our latest JS-50 WX model performs on their edgers and trimmers,” says JoeScan...
