March 2026
Cover: Patrick Hardwoods Starts Up Sawmill
Patrick Hardwoods is the new Patrick Lumber divison, and its new harwood sawmill is in full swing at Philomath, Ore.
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- Coalition Taps Swanson Again
- EUDR Delayed To December
- Weyco Expects Strong Growth
THE ISSUES: Here's A Chance To See The Future
There are a couple of interesting articles in this issue that are somewhat related. One of them starts on page 38, and is about the new pellet mill started up by Southport Lumber in Oregon as an answer to the increasingly challenging situation they’ve encountered with their residuals markets, given the shutdown of operations they used to send their residuals to. Sound familiar? In fact, they’ve teamed with Oregon’s Swanson Lumber, which has also just started a pellet mill for the same reason, together forming Oregon Pellet Mills trading company with an export loading terminal at the Port of Coos Bay, from whence they’ll ship some of their pellets to overseas markets, providing fuel for electricity plants.
COVER: Strong Partner
Patrick Lumber Co.’s office relocation and new sawmill in western Oregon provide more opportunity for growth.
MACHINERY ROW
- Refurbished Boiler
- Bernhardt Led Engineering Firm
- Con-Vey Celebrates #80 This Year
- Courizon Partners Buys Air Burners
- Canfor Reveals Asset Write-Down
AT Large
- Martin Family Adds Right Touch To LSUA
- Western FP Selld Stillwater Operations
- Interfor Announces CFO, COO Positions
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The Issues: Here’s A Chance To See The Future
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Cheif, Timber Processing
There are a couple of interesting articles in this issue that are somewhat related. One of them starts on page 38, and is about the new pellet mill started up by Southport Lumber in Oregon as an answer to the increasingly challenging situation they’ve encountered with their residuals markets, given the shutdown of operations they used to send their residuals to. Sound familiar? In fact, they’ve teamed with Oregon’s Swanson Lumber, which has also just started a pellet mill for the same reason, together forming Oregon Pellet Mills trading company with an export loading terminal at the Port of Coos Bay, from whence they’ll ship some of their pellets to overseas markets, providing fuel for electricity plants.
The other article I’m referencing in this issue starts on page 10 and is about the upcoming Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, scheduled April 14-15 at the Omni Atlanta Hotel in downtown Atlanta. Twenty speakers are lined up, many of whom will address what frankly boils down to as the potential future of your sawdust, shavings and chips. It might be worth your time to attend.
The other article I’m referencing in this issue starts on page 10 and is about the upcoming Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, scheduled April 14-15 at the Omni Atlanta Hotel in downtown Atlanta. Twenty speakers are lined up, many of whom will address what frankly boils down to as the potential future of your sawdust, shavings and chips. It might be worth your time to attend.
There’s a vast range in the conference subject matter, from developing products and markets, such as biochar for nurseries, produced through cogeneration, which will be presented by Kyle Freres of Oregon’s Freres Engineered Wood, to the use of wood pellets to co-fire with coal in coal stations to provide electricity for huge data centers planned by developers such as Microsoft who want “green” power, as presented by consultant Bill Strauss. Related to that are a couple of talks about the production of black pellets (torrefaction), also potentially to cofire in coal stations, thus providing a heartbeat to the life-support status of the coal industry.
Who thought 10 years ago that your sawmill residuals could be the environmental answer to the reduction of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, also known as decarbonization? In fact one of the speakers, Pete Madden of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, will talk about his group’s efforts in carbon data tracking and biochar trading.
A few others talks, from Amanda Lang of Forisk, Tim Lowrimore of Georgia Forestry Assn. and Dru Preston of Georgia Forestry Commission, will get down to the heart of the matter in the U.S. Southeast—that is, the state of forestlands and timber supplies, and the absolutely necessary transition into new residuals markets due to the decline of the pulp and paper industry.
Meanwhile, about 40 exhibitors will be on hand to discuss their technologies that are enhancing the further refinement of biomass after it leaves your sawmills.
Cost of the conference is $499 for both days ($399 and $299 for the first and second days individually), and includes access to all of the presentations and to the exhibitor floor in the Grand Ballroom North, not to mention breakfast, lunch and a dinner reception on the first day and breakfast on the second day.
Hosted by Wood Bioenergy magazine, this is the ninth Wood Bio Conference & Expo, and as our old friend and activist Bruce Vincent once said: “The world is run by those who show up.” Visit: www.woodbioenergyshow.com
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