Pyramid Mountain Lumber Company in Seeley Lake is the oldest surviving family-owned and operated lumber mill in Montana, surviving a decline in the housing market and operating on a decreasing supply of raw materials. “We’ve…
International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) announced today that it had reached agreement in principle to acquire the assets of Keadle Lumber Enterprises, Inc. of Thomaston, Georgia. Keadle is a well-regarded producer of high quality southern…
U.S. lumber prices are falling in response to a late, cold spring in some parts of the country, and to a sharp first-quarter production increase by mills that may have overestimated gains in housing starts,…
Colorado Senator Mark Udall visited a Montrose sawmill, Thursday, to talk about how the forest industry can help Colorado’s economy. He assisted the mill in obtaining a U.S. Forest Service contract last year. This plan…
Thirty new jobs opened up when the Evergreen sawmill in Montana recently restarted production, and they added one more employee to the schedule. Senator Max Baucus joined employees at the sawmill for a work day….
North American mills are sawing lumber at the fastest pace in six years after a recovering U.S. housing market, a beetle infestation in Canada and increasing Chinese demand drove the biggest price surge in two…
With new home construction hitting a million new starts a year for the first time since 2008, a national forest management firm reports that timber prices for large standing trees are rising off the bottom…
Shelly’s Lumber, the family-owned building material supplier headquartered in Telford, has been acquired by U.S. LBM Holdings. The 90-year-old Shelly’s is U.S. LBM’s second supplier in Pennsylvania; the firm also owns John H. Myers &…