by Web Editor | Apr 30, 2015 | The Issues
Welcome To The Anything-Can-Happen Southern Pine Industry Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief, Timber Processing May 2015 Does it seem like a lot has happened in the southern pine sawmill industry since the SFPA Expo was held June 5-7, 2013 in Atlanta? Well, if...
by Web Editor | Mar 31, 2015 | The Issues
Story by Dan Shell, Managing Editor Way back 20 years ago I had a hot lead on a hardwood sawmill in Eugene, Ore. Diamond Wood Products actually operated three manufacturing facilities in the state, but the Eugene mill was said to be one of the best hardwood sawmills...
by Web Editor | Mar 3, 2015 | The Issues
Getting A Handle On Hardwood Checkoff Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing March 2015 We didn’t intend to include an article on the hardwood checkoff situation in this issue. But beginning on page 10, there it is. As much as our articles are...
by Web Editor | Jan 29, 2015 | The Issues
AWARD RECIPIENT IS NO STRANGER Article By Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing February 2015 “We’re showing our age,” David Richbourg said to me when I told him I had passed along an article I had written about him in 1988 to our associate editor...
by Web Editor | Dec 3, 2014 | The Issues
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Labour in British Columbia can’t seem to get on the same page with regard to the two tragic sawmill explosions that occurred early in 2012. But before you even get...
by Web Editor | Nov 5, 2014 | The Issues
A Hardwood Heads Up Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing 2014 This issue includes articles on two hardwood sawmill operations—one in Michigan, the other in Georgia, vastly different in size, but both finding their own ways to push forward....