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Element5 Installs MiCROTEC Goldeneye Scanner

Element5 Installs MiCROTEC Goldeneye ScannerAs part of the $107 million expansion of Element5’s mass timber facility in St. Thomas, Ontario that will double production capacity, the mill has added a new MiCROTEC Goldeneye multi-sensor quality...

Sawmiller Pens Opinion Article

Sawmiller Pens Opinion ArticleEDITOR’S NOTE: The following opinion article was written by Kirby Kendrick and does not necessarily represent the views of Timber Processing staff.  Across Iowa and rural America, generations of families have built...

Lumber Quality Workshops Announced

Lumber Quality Workshops AnnouncedTerry Brown and the Lumber Quality Institute will again offer two lumber quality-related workshops in Salem, Ore. at the Scottish Rite Center. Lumber Quality and Process Control Workshop will be held November...

New President & CEO Appointed At Great Southern Wood Preserving 

New President & CEO Appointed At Great Southern Wood Preserving Jimmy Rane, founder and chairman of the board of Great Southern Wood Preserving, Inc., has announced that Mark Callender, a 34-year veteran of the company, will be elevated to...

Woodgrain Closing Pilot Rock, Oregon Sawmill 

Woodgrain Closing Pilot Rock, Oregon SawmillWoodgrain Inc. filed a WARN notice to Oregon state officials July 1 notifying them that the company was permanently closing its Pilot Rock sawmill, on or after Sept. 1, 2025. The company is consolidating...

U.S. Lumber Coalition Questions NAHB

U.S. Lumber Coalition Questions NAHBThe U.S. Lumber Coalition has gone on the offensive against the National Assn. of Home Builders (NAHB).  “NAHB’s unyielding support for the Canadian softwood lumber industry, which benefits from dozens of unfair...

Hood Industries To Modernize Waynesboro Operation 

Hood Industries To Modernize Waynesboro Operation Hood Industries, Inc. is pleased to announce a major brownfield expansion to the existing facility in Waynesboro, Miss. This strategic $245 million upgrade will enhance the facility’s capabilities...

Fulghum Commissions Two 170 ft. Cranes At Canfor

Fulghum Commissions Two 170 ft. Cranes At CanforFulghum Industries, Inc. has completed the commissioning of two newly installed 170 ft., 45-ton log cranes as part of a $210 million project with Comact for Canfor Southern Pine at Axis, Ala....

Drax Idling Operations In Arkansas

Drax Idling Operations In ArkansasDrax has made the decision to cease operations and idle pellet plant facilities in Leola and Russellville, Ark. The plants will cease operations and idle beginning November 1, 2025; operations at other U.S. sites...

Charles Ingram Lumber Goes With Goldeneye 

Charles Ingram Lumber Goes With Goldeneye After a successful partnership built on years of experience with MiCROTEC's Lucidyne scanner in southern yellow pine and support from customer care, Charles Ingram Lumber has chosen to partner with MiCROTEC...

Kalmar Forklifts ChargePod

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has launched its containerized ChargePod solution for electrically powered forklifts. The solution addresses growing customer demand for cost-effective mobile outdoor charging solutions and is ideal for customers…

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Vecoplan VPC Pre-Crusher

Bulky wood waste such as crates, pallets and cable reels can now be efficiently pre-processed with Vecoplan’s VPC Pre-Crusher machine. The VPC is designed to be paired with any Vecoplan shredder to increase output by 50–200%. Outfitted with…

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Forbes Is Sole Owner Of Brunette

Brunette Machinery Co. Inc. announced that Kirk Forbes has concluded the purchase of shares from his business partners and is now the sole owner of Brunette, which is celebrating more than 75 years in supplying the wood products business…

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BID Continues Digital Growth

The BID Group of Companies has expanded upon its use of PTC’s products to include Vuforia Augmented Reality (AR) offerings, in particular Vuforia Chalk remote experience software. Prior to leveraging Vuforia Chalk, BID deployed PTC’s…

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