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Fulghum Completes First 155-Ft., 45-Ton Crane Installation

Fulghum Completes First 155-Ft., 45-Ton Crane Installation Fulghum Industries has completed installation and certification of a 155-ft., 45-ton log crane at Burt Lumber in Washington, Ga., marking the first crane of that size built by the company....

Survey Says: U.S. Softwood Lumber Producers Temper Outlook for 2026-27

Survey Says: U.S. Softwood Lumber Producers Temper Outlook for 2026-27U.S. softwood lumber producers are entering 2026-27 with a slightly less optimistic outlook than they held a year ago, according to Timber Processing's 2026 Annual U.S. Sawmill...

Western Wood Preservers Names Ryan Pessah Executive Director

Western Wood Preservers Names Ryan Pessah Executive DirectorThe Western Wood Preserves Institute (WWPI) Board of Directors have selected Ryan Pessah as Executive Director following a nationwide search.  Pessah has served as the Institute’s...

Mühlböck Secures Contract In California

Mühlböck Secures Contract In CaliforniaUpper Austrian timber drying specialist Mühlböck continues its international growth trajectory and has secured a project in the USA. Mühlböck is supplying four 1306 PRO dry kilns with a total volume of over...

C&C FP Invests Over $21 Million In Coushatta Rebuild 

C&C FP Invests Over $21 Million In Coushatta Rebuild C&C Forest Products announced it is investing over $21 million to rebuild its Coushatta sawmill following a 2025 fire, repositioning the facility as a more efficient, cost-competitive...

Canfor Acquires I-Joist Operation

Canfor Acquires I-Joist OperationCanfor Corp. has entered into an agreement with PinkWood Ltd. to purchase its I-joist business for $68 million, including working capital. Founded in 2009, PinkWood is the largest I-joist facility in Western Canada,...

Patrick Hardwoods Appoints Mark Gray President

Patrick Hardwoods Appoints Mark Gray President Patrick Lumber Co. (PLC), a century-old lumber and specialty wood supplier, announced that Patrick Hardwoods’ board of directors unanimously elected Mark Gray as president of Patrick Hardwoods. After...

White Liquor Tank Explosion Kills 11 At Longview Packaging Plant

White Liquor Tank Explosion Kills 11 At Longview Packaging PlantGovernor Bob Ferguson ordered flags to be at half-staff for a week in early June in honor of the 11 killed in the chemical tank explosion on the morning of May 26 at the Nippon...

Overmyer, Hardwood Lumber Industry Reached Their Peak Together

Overmyer, Hardwood Lumber Industry Reached Their Peak TogetherDonald Howard Overmyer, Jr., a 1997 Timber Processing Person of the Year, who was widely respected as a leader and innovator in the hardwood lumber industry, and who developed Linden...

Does Forest Service Letter Have Teeth?

Does Forest Service Letter Have Teeth? Restoration Forest Products, a sawmill operation in Bellemont, Ariz., is touting a letter of intent from the USDA Forest Service and signed by supervisors on the four national forests in Arizona comprising the...

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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Canfor Puts ‘Stock’ In New BC Facility

Vancouver, BC-based Canfor Corp. is investing $200 million to build a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Houston, British Columbia, which will have an annual production capacity of 350MMBF. “I’m very pleased to be making this announcement in British Columbia, where Canfor has been proudly headquartered for 85 years,” comments Don Kayne, President and CEO. “This decision comes following…

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West Fraser To Acquire Spray Lake Sawmills

West Fraser has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Spray Lake Sawmills located in Cochrane, Alberta subject to certain post-closing adjustments. Spray Lake Sawmills produces treated wood products, dimensional lumber and a variety of residuals and biproducts, with an annual lumber capacity of 155 MMBF and…

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PTF BPI Announces 2023 Dates

The 7th biennial international Processing Technologies for the Forest and Bio-based Products Industries (PTF BPI) 2023 Conference will be held October 30 to Nov. 1, 2023 in St. Simons Island, Ga. at the King & Prince Resort…

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