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American Wood Council Elects New Chairman

American Wood Council Elects New ChairmanAmerican Wood Council (AWC) announced the election of West Fraser President and CEO Sean McLaren as the new Board Chair for a two-year term. McLaren will be joined by SmartLam CEO Derek Ratchford, who was...

Sierra Pacific Breaks Ground In Eugene 

Sierra Pacific Breaks Ground In EugeneSierra Pacific Industries broke ground on its new state-of-the-art sawmill in Eugene, Ore. in early November. SPI’s Oregon crews joined in celebrating the placement of the first column—the start of what will...

Brunette Machinery Acquires Salem Machinery

Brunette Machinery Acquires Salem MachineryBrunette Machinery Co. Inc. announced its asset purchase of Salem Equipment Inc., a longtime leading U.S. manufacturer of sawmill machinery. According to Brunette Machinery, the acquisition strengthens the...

Hampton Lumber Breaks Ground On South Carolina Sawmill 

Hampton Lumber Breaks Ground On South Carolina Sawmill In early November Hampton Lumber officials welcomed South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster and other dignitaries for a groundbreaking ceremony at Hampton’s new sawmill in Allendale County, SC....

West Fraser To Idle Mills In Georgia, British Columbia

West Fraser To Idle Mills In Georgia, British Columbia West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. announced in early November it will permanently close both its Augusta, Ga. and 100 Mile House, British Columbia sawmills by the end of 2025 following an orderly...

Oregon State To Host Lumber Drying Workshop 

Oregon State To Host Lumber Drying Workshop Oregon State University in Corvallis will host “​​How to Dry Lumber for Quality and Profit” on December 16-18, 2025. This is the 76th annual offering of such a workshop for kiln operators, supervisors,...

USNR Parent Company Acquires Norwood Sawmills 

USNR Parent Company Acquires Norwood Sawmills USNR, a global supplier in wood processing technologies, is pleased to announce that Norwood Industries, a supplier of portable sawmills, has joined its corporate family. Norwood will operate as an...

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...

U.S. South Leads Lumber Production

Western Wood Products Assn. reported that U.S. softwood lumber production was 35.165 billion SF in 2019, including 19.365 billion BF produced in the South and 14.254 billion BF produced in the West…

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New Ligna Press Spokesperson Announced

Deutsche Messe has named Katharina Siebert as the new Ligna press spokesperson. She is responsible for international communications for the world’s leading trade fair for tools, machinery and equipment for the woodworking and…

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Morbark Announces New CEO

Morbark announced the appointment of Brad Boehler as the successor to current President of Morbark Holdings and Vice President of Alamo Group’s Forestry and Tree Care Business Unit, Dave Herr…

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U.S. Housing Starts Show Big Increase

U.S. housing starts in June increased more than 17% over May to an annual rate of 1.186 million, with both single family housing starts (831,000) and multi-family housing starts (350,000) showing big increases, according to the U.S. Census Bureau monthly…

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Next Xylexpo To Be Held In 2022

The Board of Cepra-Centro promozionale Acimall, orgaziners of Xylexpo, speaking through its president Lorenzo Primultini, officially canceled the 2020 show on July 6, 2020. Initially scheduled for late May in Milan, Italy, Xylexpo was first…

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