As part of a major expansion in the U.S., British Columbia-based Conifex Timber announced an agreement with investors Blue Wolf Capital (BW) to purchase sawmills in Florida and Arkansas – representing a combined dimension lumber…
Industrial Wood Products (IWP), a maker of wood pallets, crates, and siding, will open a manufacturing facility in Mississippi – investing $2 million and adding 50 jobs over the next four years. The plant will…
Angelina Forest Products, LLC announced plans to build a new softwood lumber production plant in Lufkin, Texas. The company purchased the former General Electric Buck Creek site and will begin construction of a $100 million…
The first and biggest cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing plant in the eastern U.S. is nearly fully operational, with 25 employees currently working a portion of the plant. Florida-based International Beams (IB), a manufacturer of pre-fabricated…
Article by Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief As written up on page six of this issue, the recent Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo in Atlanta included in its extensive agenda several talks on mass timber construction, including…
The Beck Group (Beck) and Forest2Market, Inc. recently announced a partnership to launch Sawmill TQ (Top Quartile), a new service for gathering and delivering Southern Yellow Pine sawmill benchmark data to industry members. The partnership…
The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) recently awarded a $4,226,000 challenge grant from the Maine Technology Asset Fund 2.0 program to the Pleasant River Lumber Company. The $4.2 million will be used toward a $12 million…
Softwood lumber exports from British Columbia to the U.S. have fallen 20 percent from last March, according to the Canadian federal government. British Columbia – Canada’s largest lumber-producing province – exported just over 514 million…