by Web Editor | Oct 5, 2015 | News
A weak Loonie, an expiring softwood agreement and poor demand from Asia has lumber prices down sharply in the Pacific Northwest. F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber in Columbia Falls has not had any layoffs due to the poor pricing, general manager Chuck Roady said Monday,...
by Web Editor | Jun 12, 2015 | News
Western Forest Products is spending $30 million — most of it in Nanaimo — to upgrade three Vancouver Island sawmills. Lee Doney, company chairman, said today at the Duke Point mill: “Our harvesting strategies and continued demand for our western red cedar and...
by Web Editor | May 15, 2015 | News
Interfor To Acquire Arkansas Sawmill From The Price Companies Interfor Corporation recently announced that it has reached an agreement with The Price Companies, Inc. to acquire Price’s sawmill in Monticello, Arkansas. The Monticello Sawmill is located in Southern...
by Web Editor | Dec 8, 2014 | News
California Redwood Company Sawmill To Close, 106 Employees Will Lose Jobs The California Redwood Company will close down its last remaining California sawmill in February 2015, putting over 100 people out of a job and ending the company’s half-century-long involvement...
by Web Editor | Apr 7, 2014 | News
West Fraser continues to grow its lumber business in the U.S. South and in western Canada. The company announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Bibler Brothers Lumber sawmill and lumber manufacturing operations located in Russellville, Arkansas....