The Arkansas Economic Development Commission has approved $5 million in financing to aid a timber company in the proposed purchase of an abandoned plant in Union County. The commission approved the financing this week for…
Contacts are still talking about the impacts of the terrible winter weather on the hardwood industry. Deep snow and biting cold slowed logging and hurt sawmill production. One Indiana mill reported 145” of snow this…
Continued advances in cross laminated timber (CLT) and wood framing techniques now make wood high-rises practical. A key enabling technology are adhesives. Architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill provided an update on urban construction trends at…
Babine Forest Products announced Thursday it plans to appeal a $1.01-million penalty, the highest ever levied by WorkSafeBC, for a fatal explosion and fire at its Burns Lake sawmill. In a statement Thursday, the company…
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…
A year and a half after a second deadly wood dust-fuelled explosion ripped through a B.C. sawmill killing two workers, a pair of WorkSafeBC inspectors stepped into Sigurdson Forest Products sawmill west of Williams Lake….
The U.S. Lumber Coalition is disappointed by the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) ruling that Canada is not required to continue to apply compensatory adjustments to export taxes under the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA),…
H.I.G. Capital, LLC says Baillie Lumber has acquired American Hardwood Industries, one of the investment capital firm’s holdings. H.I.G. originally invested in American Hardwood Industries’ predecessor company, Augusta Lumber, in 2006. Since that time, American…