by Web Editor | Jul 10, 2015 | News
The Finnish hew saw at Duane Vaagen’s mill can make two two-by-fours from a tree no thicker than a loaf of bread. “The magic,” he says, as logs rattle by and emerge seconds later as finished lumber, “is being able to turn such small diameters into a high-quality,...
by Web Editor | Mar 7, 2014 | News
Mark Elston followed his father into the timber industry back when business was booming. “When I started, you could really mess things up and still make good money,” he said. “You can’t do that anymore.” Elston runs a lumber mill in...
by Web Editor | Aug 8, 2012 | News
China’s slowing economy may benefit Oregon’s lumber and plywood mills by making more timber available at reasonable prices, industry observers say. Wood Resource Quarterly, an industry journal based in Seattle, reported China reduced log imports from the...