This issue a special thanks goes out to those owners, managers, supervisors, shift leaders and others who have taken the time to complete Timber Processing’s annual Sawmill Capital Expenditure Survey. The effort all of you…

If you’re questioning whether the sawmill machinery industry has gone global, simply turn to page 22 for the beginning of our Ligna preview section and you’ll quickly arrive at the conclusion that it has indeed….

Austria’s Klausner has created a buzz with its plans to build at least two, and probably three, giant southern pine sawmills. Each project calls for 700MMBF annual production capacity, meaning that each would be three…

My first involvement with the Timber Processing Man of the Year award was in February 1989: I was with the company less than a year and coming off my first big West Coast article-gathering trip,…

Wow, what a year! I think we can say it has ended on a higher note, mainly because of some improvement in homebuilding, which is projected to only get better next year and the next….

For decades, Timber Processing has been earning a reputation as one of the most respected and trusted publications covering this industry in the United States. But, in a manner of speaking, we’re not in Kansas…

This month’s cover story on Columbia Vista Corp. shows that a sawmill doesn’t have to be a large organization to be successful, and doesn’t need massive resources to produce quality lumber through professional and safe…

I hope by now you’ve made plans to attend the Timber Processing & Energy Expo scheduled this October 17-19 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. This is a new event sponsored by this…

Located in north central Arizona, the newest greenfield sawmill in the U.S. (see page 6) is taking shape, representing the culmination of a decade-long effort by public and private groups and also an unprecedented move…

Following tragic and devastating explosions and fires at two British Columbia sawmills in Burns Lake and Prince George that killed four workers and injured dozens, leave it to EarthFirst! on its official news site to…

The cover story of this issue is about a sawmill modernization project just completed at McShan Lumber in McShan, Ala. Specifically it’s about the installation and startup of new gang and edger systems at the…

Two of the primary articles in this issue are somewhat related: the announcement of our 2012 Man of the Year and the preview of our upcoming Bioenergy conference. For the first time we’ve selected two…

In case you’ve forgotten, the U.S. Forest Service does still exist? Many in our industry have forgotten about this agency, perhaps even chosen to forget it, ever since our industry became barely a blip on…

I have witnessed two product-related crises in the southern pine lumber industry during my nearly 30 years of writing for this magazine. The first occurred in the mid 1980s, when southern pine lumber producers received…

I recently had occasion to browse through some of Hatton-Brown’s archives of Timber Processing’s illustrious past, material from long before my time. My research took me back 20 years exactly, to the 1991 bound volume,…

We returned from the machinery show in Atlanta in a good mood. Despite the current housing quagmire, most exhibitors we talked to were pleased with the event and especially at the presence of the many…

No doubt about it, North American sawmillers are in the middle of a truly rough patch of markets and operating conditions right now: Five years ago the housing market began to crumble; three years ago…

The other day I attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the world’s largest fuel pellet plant in Waycross, Ga. The Georgia Biomass facility is owned by a large German utility and is consuming more than 1…

Last November in this space we informed you that Timber Processing had gone global, adding 1,200 sawmill owners, managers and other lumber industry professionals from outside of North America to our readership list. It has…

This issue focuses on our Sawmill Capital Expenditure Survey of softwood and hardwood lumbermen throughout the United States. The results coming out of the survey are quite interesting. I won’t delve into those results in…

Your head would have to be buried in the sand to not hear or read about the ongoing developments in what we call “the new generation” wood bioenergy industry. Of course, many of you will…

Responding to an email follow-up question about sawmill labor, TP 2011 Man of the Year and WKO Inc. President Bill Wilkins wrote: “The issue of automated equipment not being programmed properly should keep mill owners…

We appear to be ending 2010 about like we ended 2009—stuck in the housing mud. But as bad as it was economically, it wasn’t boring. Here’s a recap:  Wood pellet plants and woody biomass power…

Are you aware that Timber Processing magazine has gone global? We haven’t publicized this development much, so it may have slipped by you. This issue, for example, is in the hands of more than 1,200…