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Lights, Camera Nashville!

Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Editor, Timber Processing September 2023 – Unlike my dear old boss Rich Donnell, I did not grow up in Nashville. When the Southern Forest Products Assn. announced the move from my beloved hometown of Atlanta, Ga. for its Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO…

The Logger Supply Chain Strain

During the Southern Forest Products Assn.’s educational sessions at the 2021 event, longtime sawmiller and consultant Huey Long noted that early in his career, one of his mentors said that to help maintain perspective, it’s important to always keep a basic line chart graph showing 20 years of lumber prices on your office…

Maybe The Markets Will Surprise Us Once Again

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing June 2023 – If you didn’t notice it on the cover, your eyes are getting as bad as mine, but yes this is our annual U.S. Sawmill Operations and Capital Expenditure survey report. It doesn’t pretend to be as…

Lumbering Along With James Oliver Dunn

Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Timber Processing May 2023 – Some of my very first memories are playing around my grandmother’s house located on a county road in Brushy Creek, Ala., which is a suburb of East Chapman, Ala. (that’s a joke)…

Aging Like A Fine. . .Sawmill?

Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Editor, Timber Processing April 2023 –Often I wonder what the future holds. I close my eyes and try to think 10, 15, 20 years down the line—30 years seems like a lifetime. Right now, in this moment, I’m a young mom, with young kids. I am in…

Your Tax Dollars Not At Work

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing March 2023 –You may be aware of our affiliate magazine, Panel World, which covers the structural and non-structural wood panel industries in a similar way that Timber Processing covers the lumber industry. Recently in Panel World we ran a…

Filled With Action On Many Fronts

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing December 2022 –2022 left us with softened lumber prices, declining housing starts, and rising interest rates. Nobody was complaining too loudly, given the astronomical surge in lumber prices in the spring of 2022 that everyone enjoyed, and…

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Editor, Timber Processing November 2022 – I very clearly remember a dinner I had with one of my favorite engineers from the West Coast after a day on the sawmill show floor many, many years ago. After a few cocktails (don’t all stories get good once you hear…

You Can’t Miss Big Number 44

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing August 2022 – You’ll notice on the cover of Timber Processing August 2022 that this issue represents the 44th Annual Lumbermen’s Buying Guide. I knew we were putting another Buying Guide together but it didn’t really make its presence felt until I saw…

Diboll Withstands The Test Of Names

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing July 2022 – Do you want to get confused? Let’s go to Diboll, Texas. Here you’ll find the Georgia-Pacific sawmill, which is our cover story this issue as written by Senior Editor Jessica Johnson…

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Lights, Camera Nashville!

Lights, Camera Nashville!

Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Editor, Timber Processing September 2023 – Unlike my dear old boss Rich Donnell, I did not grow up in Nashville. When the Southern Forest Products Assn. announced the move from my beloved hometown of Atlanta, Ga. for its Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO…

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Our publication focuses on sawmill project installations in the softwood and hardwood lumber industry in North America and worldwide. Special emphasis is also given to new product technologies and to the important issues impacting the lumber manufacturing industry.

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