by Web Editor | Oct 3, 2014 | The Issues
Story by David Abbott, Senior Associate Editor In late July and early August my job took me to Ohio and West Virginia, primarily on behalf of companion periodical Timber Harvesting magazine. I was assigned to pick up the story on the Caudill family, which was named...
by Web Editor | Sep 3, 2014 | The Issues
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief Trade shows are known for the endless discussions that go on there as to the future of the wood products industry, the future of the housing market, the future of your operation, a project in the future, a technology in the...
by Web Editor | Jul 31, 2014 | The Issues
Gee, those Canadian forest products companies apparently grew increasingly perturbed about those taxes the U.S. has been putting on Canadian softwood lumber all of these years. They finally figured out—why ship lumber to the U.S. South, when you can go down there and...
by Web Editor | May 2, 2014 | The Issues
Many people tend to recall that the Great Recession began with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers financial firm in September 2008. But those of us associated with the forest products industry, and especially you who walk up and down catwalks in sawmills every day,...
by Web Editor | Apr 25, 2014 | The Issues
Franklin Startup Brings Back Memories of New Sawmill Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief, Timber Processing April 2014 We’ve been reading a lot about Canadian forest products companies buying southern pine sawmills. We haven’t read so much about U.S. independent...
by Web Editor | Feb 28, 2014 | The Issues
Paint Your Wagon And Come Along Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing March 2014 Sometimes we use this space simply to pat ourselves on the back for what we put into the current issue of the magazine. This is one of those times. Talk about a mix...