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Ben Brydges Appointed Wood-Mizer CEO

Ben Brydges Appointed Wood-Mizer CEOWood-Mizer has named Ben Brydges as Chief Executive Officer. In his new role, Brydges will guide the company into its next phase of strategic growth and product innovation, strengthening Wood-Mizer’s position as...

More Than Tariffs Cause Sinclar Forest Products Mill Reductions

More Than Tariffs Cause Sinclar Forest Products Mill ReductionsPrince George, British Columbia-based Sinclar Forest Products is reducing production output at its Apollo Forest Products (Fort Saint James), Nechako Lumber (Vanderhoof) and Lakeland...

DO2 Names Mathieu Laflamme Sales Director

DO2 Names Mathieu Laflamme Sales DirectorDolbeau Oxygene, known as DO2, appointed Mathieu Laflamme as Sales Director for the DO2 Group, which includes DO2 Industrial as well as its automation division, DO2 Control. Laflamme has more than 20 years...

Fulghum Announces Commissioning At West Fraser Henderson

Fulghum Announces Commissioning At West Fraser HendersonFulghum Industries, Inc. has announced the successful commissioning of a newly installed 170-ft., 45-ton log crane for West Fraser’s expanding operations in Henderson, Tex. The project was...

Hancock’s Matt Duprey Named NeLMA Chair

Hancock’s Matt Duprey Named NeLMA ChairHancock Lumber, Casco, Me., Chief Sales Officer, Matt Duprey, has been elected as the newest Chairman of the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Assn. (NeLMA).  Established in 1933, NeLMA is the rules-writing...

Element5 Installs MiCROTEC Goldeneye Scanner

Element5 Installs MiCROTEC Goldeneye ScannerAs part of the $107 million expansion of Element5’s mass timber facility in St. Thomas, Ontario that will double production capacity, the mill has added a new MiCROTEC Goldeneye multi-sensor quality...

Sawmiller Pens Opinion Article

Sawmiller Pens Opinion ArticleEDITOR’S NOTE: The following opinion article was written by Kirby Kendrick and does not necessarily represent the views of Timber Processing staff.  Across Iowa and rural America, generations of families have built...

Lumber Quality Workshops Announced

Lumber Quality Workshops AnnouncedTerry Brown and the Lumber Quality Institute will again offer two lumber quality-related workshops in Salem, Ore. at the Scottish Rite Center. Lumber Quality and Process Control Workshop will be held November...

New President & CEO Appointed At Great Southern Wood Preserving 

New President & CEO Appointed At Great Southern Wood Preserving Jimmy Rane, founder and chairman of the board of Great Southern Wood Preserving, Inc., has announced that Mark Callender, a 34-year veteran of the company, will be elevated to...

Woodgrain Closing Pilot Rock, Oregon Sawmill 

Woodgrain Closing Pilot Rock, Oregon SawmillWoodgrain Inc. filed a WARN notice to Oregon state officials July 1 notifying them that the company was permanently closing its Pilot Rock sawmill, on or after Sept. 1, 2025. The company is consolidating...

Hoffman Companies Acquires Besse Forest Products Group

The Hoffmann Family of Companies (HFOC), a Florida-based family-owned private equity firm, has acquired Besse Forest Products Group, the longstanding Michigan-based family-run company with 10 manufacturing facilities, including four sawmills, a lumber drying concentration yard, four veneer mills and a cut-to-size plywood mill.

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Roseburg Names Tony Ramm Senior VP

Roseburg announced that Tony Ramm has been named Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Labor, overseeing the company’s human resources, benefits and compensation, recruitment, and environmental health and safety teams.

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Industry Says Goodbye To Walter Jarck

Walter Jarck, whose career in the forest products industry spanned 65 years and ranged from logging machinery to engineered wood products, died January 3, surrounded by his children, in North Wilkesboro, NC. He was 92.

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Carbotech Acquires Sawquip

Carbotech Group has acquired Sawquip, a manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of sawmill equipment for the primary and secondary breakdown of logs into lumber. This acquisition allows Carbotech Group to add on a new field of expertise, providing customers with innovative new solutions for lumber production. Sawquip’s innovative products include log turners and optimized log infeeds, chipping canters, twin and quad circular saw modules, as well as optimized gangs for controlled shape sawing, among others.

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Oregon Truckers File Suit Against State

Rob Freres, president of Oregon-based Freres Engineered Wood, a manufacturer of lumber, veneer, plywood and mass timber, has thrown in his support for a lawsuit filed by the Oregon Trucking Assn. and three Oregon-based trucking companies against the state of Oregon for overcharging truckers under the weight-mile tax.

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