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Rayonier Announces Wood Products Leadership Transition

Rayonier Announces Wood Products Leadership Transition   Rayonier Inc. has announced that Ashlee Townsend Cribb has resigned as Executive Vice President, Wood Products to accept a CEO opportunity with a privately-owned, specialty wood products...

North Alabama Sawmill Announces Closure 

North Alabama Sawmill Announces Closure  In north Alabama, Southern Parallel Forest Products Corp. announced plans to shut down its Albertville location, affecting approximately 62 employees. The closure is expected to take effect in April 2026....

Vecoplan AG Announces New CEO

Vecoplan AG Announces New CEO Following Eric Jaschke's appointment to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in December 2025, Vecoplan AG has also strengthened its Executive Board leadership with Dr. Ralf Guckert taking over as Chief Executive Officer...

U.S. Forest Service Announces New Funding Opportunities

U.S. Forest Service Announces New Funding OpportunitiesThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service has announced up to $95 million in competitive grant funding through its Wood Innovations program for projects that advance innovative wood...

Canfor Announces Non-Cash Asset Write Down, Impairment Charge

Canfor Announces Non-Cash Asset Write Down, Impairment ChargeCanfor Corp. has announced that it will record a non-cash asset write down and impairment charge totaling approximately $321 million in its fourth quarter of 2025 results. Of this amount,...

Weyco Expects Strong Growth

Weyco Expects Strong GrowthWeyerhaeuser Co. hosted an Investor Day in December and outlined the company's strategic growth plan and financial targets through 2030. "Weyerhaeuser stands alone in the timberlands, wood products and land solutions...

U.S. Lumber Coalition Taps Steve Swanson For Chair, Again

U.S. Lumber Coalition Taps Steve Swanson For Chair, AgainSteve Swanson, CEO & Executive Chairman of the Swanson Group, and recently named the Timber Processing 2026 Person of the Year, has for the second time assumed the role of Chairman of the...

Rich Bernhardt, Evergreen Engineering Co-Founder, Loses Cancer Battle 

Rich Bernhardt, Evergreen Engineering Co-Founder, Loses Cancer Battle  The co-founder of Evergreen Engineering, Richard Paul Bernhardt, died January 19 after a courageous four-and-a-half-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Bernhardt was born on...

Combilift Fundraiser For UNICEF Has Lots Of Winners

Combilift Fundraiser For UNICEF Has Lots Of Winners  The Combilift Fundraiser in support of UNICEF has officially come to an end. Total tickets purchased, for a chance to win the 100,000th Combilift truck, raised more than €56,000 with Combilift...

John King Chains Celebrates 100th Year 

John King Chains Celebrates 100th Year John King Chains Group is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2026. Established in Leeds, England in 1926, the enterprise began by producing plain pedestal bearings for coal mining pit tubs. Expansion came...

U.S. Housing Starts Show Significant Jump In September

U.S. housing starts increased 7% in September from August, coming in at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.358 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development monthly new residential construction report. Single-family starts were at a rate of 963,000, up 3.2%, and multi-family starts were 383,000, up 17%…

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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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