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Harrigan Lumber Cuts Production In Half

Harrigan Lumber Cuts Production In HalfMonroeville, Ala. Southern yellow pine producer Harrigan Lumber Co. announced in December that it would reduce production levels by 50% and lay off 34 employees, effective immediately. The decision came in...

Dempsey Wood Products Upgrades Planer Mill With USNR

Dempsey Wood Products Upgrades Planer Mill With USNRAfter upgrading the sawmill a few years ago, South Carolina’s Dempsey Wood Products found that it outran the planer mill, with the added challenge that the planer mill had no room for expansion in...

Alabama’s John Tyler McShan Was One Of A Kind

Alabama’s John Tyler McShan Was One Of A KindJohn Tyler “JT” McShan, who grew up in a family sawmill environment and later led Alabama-based McShan Lumber, and who was a leader and legend of the lumber industry and always a familiar and friendly...

New Zealand’s Niagara Sawmilling Modernizes With Comact

New Zealand’s Niagara Sawmilling Modernizes With ComactComact, a global provider in high-performance OEM wood-processing technologies, is proud to announce a major equipment and technology sale to Niagara Sawmilling Co., located in Invercargill,...

American Wood Council Elects New Chairman

American Wood Council Elects New ChairmanAmerican Wood Council (AWC) announced the election of West Fraser President and CEO Sean McLaren as the new Board Chair for a two-year term. McLaren will be joined by SmartLam CEO Derek Ratchford, who was...

Sierra Pacific Breaks Ground In Eugene 

Sierra Pacific Breaks Ground In EugeneSierra Pacific Industries broke ground on its new state-of-the-art sawmill in Eugene, Ore. in early November. SPI’s Oregon crews joined in celebrating the placement of the first column—the start of what will...

Brunette Machinery Acquires Salem Machinery

Brunette Machinery Acquires Salem MachineryBrunette Machinery Co. Inc. announced its asset purchase of Salem Equipment Inc., a longtime leading U.S. manufacturer of sawmill machinery. According to Brunette Machinery, the acquisition strengthens the...

Hampton Lumber Breaks Ground On South Carolina Sawmill 

Hampton Lumber Breaks Ground On South Carolina Sawmill In early November Hampton Lumber officials welcomed South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster and other dignitaries for a groundbreaking ceremony at Hampton’s new sawmill in Allendale County, SC....

West Fraser To Idle Mills In Georgia, British Columbia

West Fraser To Idle Mills In Georgia, British Columbia West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. announced in early November it will permanently close both its Augusta, Ga. and 100 Mile House, British Columbia sawmills by the end of 2025 following an orderly...

Oregon State To Host Lumber Drying Workshop 

Oregon State To Host Lumber Drying Workshop Oregon State University in Corvallis will host “​​How to Dry Lumber for Quality and Profit” on December 16-18, 2025. This is the 76th annual offering of such a workshop for kiln operators, supervisors,...

Coastal Lumber Ceases Operations

Coastal Lumber Ceases OperationsCharlottesville, Va. based Coastal Lumber Co., long a major hardwood lumber producer, closed operations in mid-August. The company laid off 200 employees and shut...

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Russia Wood Factory Grows

Russia Wood Factory GrowsRussia has for many years been, by far, the largest exporter of logs in the world. When the country announced a log export tax of 25% in 2007 and the intention to increase...

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Pellet Firm Boosts Capacity

Aggressive wood fuel pellet manufacturer-exporter Enviva LP has increased the announced capacity of the pellet plant it has under construction in Ahoskie, NC. The plant’s productive potential has...

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