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John Porter Price Kept Expanding Horizons

John Porter Price Kept Expanding Horizons  John Porter Price (pictured, 1978), a patent inventor of the rotary drum debarker for debarking treelength logs and who developed a highly successful business on the concept of starting up and operating independent chip mills...

‘Staying Power’ Has Meaning

Article by Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief You may notice that this issue includes the 40th annual Lumbermen’s Buying Guide. Wow, 40! It kind of snuck up on me. I’ve been writing on these pages for 35 of those years, which means I missed the very first Lumbermen’s Buying...

Global Lumber Market: Futures Prices Still Breaking Records

Back in March, FreightWaves reported on a “perfect storm for lumber markets”: a confluence of strong global demand and critical supply issues that caused futures prices for a thousand board feet of lumber to break $500 for the first time ever. To put that number in...

Competition Drives Oregon Mill Investments

To be competitive in the wood products industry, companies must stay on the cutting edge. But to get to the forefront, wood products companies must invest in their production facilities to increase automation and efficiency, and to lower manufacturing costs, experts...