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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...

Oregon Timber Agreement Said To Be Historic

An historic agreement between the timber industry and environmental advocates that the Oregon state legislature recently passed into law forms a comprehensive set of changes to the Oregon Forest Practices Act, and is the result of months of negotiations facilitated by Gov. Kate Brown in which…

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Origin Materials Plans Biomass-Based Facility

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Origin Materials, a carbon-negative materials company committed to the global transition to sustainable materials, announced that the company plans an investment of at least $750 million to develop a biomass…

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BID Group Partners With Yaskawa Robotics

BID Group has entered into partnership with Yaskawa America, Inc, Motoman Robotics Div. The focus of the partnership is to implement robotic systems into BID’s operations and develop new wood processing innovations. Yaskawa Motoman is a leading industrial robotics company in the Americas…

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Canfor Sells Sawmill, Piece Of Forest Tenure

Canfor Corp. is selling its Mackenzie, BC sawmill and site to Peak Renewables. Canfor also announced it is selling its forest trnure in the Mackenzie region to McLeod Lake Indian Band and Tsay Keh Dene Nation. “We are very pleased that the sale of the Mackenzie tenure will provide an opportunity for the…

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U.S. Housing Starts Gain Momentum

U.S. housing starts picked up the pace in February, increasing 6.8% over January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.769 million, 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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Drax Gets Satellite Pellet Plant Going

Drax Group is ramping up to full production at Leola—the first of three new satellite pellet plants it plans for Arkansas. Leola, in Grant County, is part of a $40 million investment by Drax in the state, creating approximately 30 new jobs across all the three sites planned for Arkansas as well as many more indirect jobs…

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