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Glen Duysen, 96, Remembered For Always Stepping Up

Glen Duysen, 96, Remembered For Always Stepping UpGlen H. Duysen, co-founder of Sierra Forest Products, and a leader in the Western timber industry, died February 7. He was 96. Duysen was a past president of the Western Timber Assn., Timber Assn....

SFPA Announces 2024 Safety Award Winners

SFPA Announces 2024 Safety Award WinnersSouthern Forest Products Assn. (SFPA) announced the recipients of the John Edgar Rhodes 2024 Sawmill Safety Excellence Awards, which embody the impact, dedication, and legacy of the association’s founding...

Rosboro Converts To Uniflow CDKs From USNR

Rosboro Converts To Uniflow CDKs From USNRRosboro Co. recently converted four of their double-track kilns to USNR's patented UniFlow continuous design, exceeding initial production increase goals while keeping emission levels below emission cap...

Minda Acquires Fingerjoint Specialist Howial

Minda Acquires Fingerjoint Specialist HowialFor many years, Minda and Howial have collaborated on projects, with Minda supplying conveyors and presses, and Howial providing fingerjoint technology. A cooperation contract was signed in 2022 to enable...

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...

Sierra Pacific Buys Oregon’s Seneca

Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is acquiring Oregon-based Seneca and affiliates, combining two family-owned forest products businesses with strong historical roots on the West Coast. Founded in 1953, Seneca operates a 175,000 acre…

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Search NA Announces New President/Owner

Search North America is pleased to announce that Richard Poindexter will be succeeding Carl Jansen as the new President, Owner and Senior Recruiter of Search North America. Search North America is a search, recruiting and placement…

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Skeena Sawmills Purchases GradeScan System

Skeena Sawmills has purchased a GradeScan with Perceptive Sight 2.0 from Lucidyne and Wolftek (Lucidyne’s Canadian distributor) for installation in their Terrace, BC planer mill. After closely watching the performance of Lucidyne’s GradeScan…

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Housing Starts Dip, Permits Still Gain

Following two months of uptick, U.S. housing starts declined 7% in July from June, showing a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.534 million, which was 2.5% above July 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Dept. of Housing and…

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Hunt, Tolko Plan Second Sawmill In La.

Hunt Forest Products and Tolko Industries Ltd. announced they will build a $240 million sawmill in Bienville Parish, near Taylor, La. Construction is expected to start in early 2022, and the new facility will employ 60 when operations begin in the…

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Robbins Lumber Acquires Limington Lumber

Two longtime Maine family-owned businesses have joined forces as Robbins Lumber, Inc., Searsmont, has announced the acquisition of Limington Lumber Co., East Baldwin. Under the acquisition, Limington Lumber will…

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