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Vaagen Bros. Lumber Installs Gilbert Planer 

Vaagen Bros. Lumber Installs Gilbert Planer Vaagen Bros. Lumber in Colville, Wash. installed a Gilbert high-speed planer featuring the Gilbert Roll Intelligent Positioning (GRIP) system, feed decks, feed table and slowdown belts. The mill will be...

TimberHP Expects Long-Term Success

TimberHP Expects Long-Term Success  TimberHP, a Maine-based manufacturer of wood fiber insulation, announced that it has filed a voluntary, pre-negotiated Chapter 11 plan of reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware....

SPI Names Vaughn Emmerson To Oversee Lumber Business

SPI Names Vaughn Emmerson To Oversee Lumber BusinessSierra Pacific Industries (SPI) named Vaughn Emmerson as Vice President of Lumber Operations, overseeing the company’s lumber business, which also includes millwork, veneer, biomass energy,...

Jasper Lumber Project Nears Completion

Jasper Lumber Project Nears CompletionJasper Lumber Co. is nearing completion on the previously announced $135 million investment to modernize its sawmill in Walker County, Alabama. The multi-year upgrade, which began in 2020 and is expected to be...

GP Taylorsville Provides Tornado Relief 

GP Taylorsville Provides Tornado Relief Through their partnership with Convoy of Hope, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing disaster relief, Georgia-Pacific Taylorsville lumber and plywood mill employees handed out a variety of relief...

Sumitomo Forestry America Acquires Teal Jones Louisiana Mill

Sumitomo Forestry America Acquires Teal Jones Louisiana Mill In early April, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. announced that its Board of Directors has agreed to acquire 100% of the shares of Teal Jones Louisiana Holdings, LLC (TJLH) through its wholly...

Charles Ingram Lumber Commissions Fulghum 170 ft. Log Crane

Charles Ingram Lumber Commissions Fulghum 170 ft. Log CraneFulghum Industries, Inc. has successfully commissioned a new 170 ft. 45-ton log crane for Charles Ingram Lumber’s expanding operations in Effingham, SC. “Charles Ingram Lumber has had a...

TP&EE Announces 2026 Show Dates; Exhibitor Renewal Program 

TP&EE Announces 2026 Show Dates; Exhibitor Renewal Program  Organizers of the Timber Processing & Energy Expo (TP&EE) announced that the exhibitor renewal program begins this April for the biennial event, to be held September 23-25,...

Chris Brown Assumes Role As Mid-South President

Chris Brown Assumes Role As Mid-South President Mid-South Engineering recently bid a happy retirement to President Marc Stewart after 27 years with the company. "Leaving my daily interactions with this team leaves a Mid-South-logo-shaped hole in my...

U.S. Lumber Coalition Sends Letter Highlighting Trade Law Enforcement Success

U.S. Lumber Coalition Sends Letter Highlighting Trade Law Enforcement SuccessIn a letter to President Trump, the U.S. Lumber Coalition highlights the great success of the enforcement of the U.S. trade laws that has added 8 billion BF of production...

BE&E Purchases Conveying, Fabrication From BID

BID Group and Biomass Engineering & Equipment (BE&E) announced a strategic supply and outsourcing partnership, in which BE&E will acquire the Vibrapro brand and manufacturing operations located in Boise, Id., and the BID Group fabrication plant in Greenville, Ky. BE&E, based in Indianapolis, Ind., is a rapidly growing engineering services and machinery manufacturer specializing in bulk materials handling for multiple industries across the globe…

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Acres Partners With Forisk

Acres, a data-driven land research platform that supports fast, informed decision making, is partnering with Forisk Consulting, a leader in analyzing timber markets and wood baskets, to visualize timber data for both companies’ clients. This collaboration between Acres and Forisk will further expand Acres’ capacity to provide and visualize important information on U.S. timberland through its powerful land valuation tool.

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Tolko Names New Chief Operating Officer

Brad Thorlakson, President and CEO of Tolko Industries, has announced that Pino Pucci, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Logistics will assume a newly created interim role as Tolko’s Chief Operating Officer. “This role has been created to support our succession planning process, as Pino will eventually succeed me as President & CEO,” Thorlakson says. “Pino’s proven leadership experience, significant focus on people and…

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Polish Glulam, German CLT Projects Pick Minda

As a specialist in engineered wood production lines, Minda has been a perfect partner for green and brownfield projects for more than 40 years. One of the last brownfield projects was the extension of a glulam line in Poland for Andrewex Construction, the biggest manufacturer of glulam in Poland with more than 30 years of experience…

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Lumber Quality Workshops Announced

Terry Brown and the Lumber Quality Institute will again offer two lumber quality-related workshops in Salem, Ore. for the sawmill industry in November 2023. The Lumber Quality and Process Control Workshop will be held November 6-7, and the Lumber Quality Leadership Workshop will be held November 8-9…

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U.S. Housing Starts Fall While Building Permits Rise

U.S. housing starts fell in August from July, at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.283 million, down 11.3%. Single-family starts were at a rate of 941,000, 4.3% below July, while multi-family starts were the primary culprit at 334,000, down 26.3%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development monthly new residential construction report…

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