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Rayonier Announces Wood Products Leadership Transition

Rayonier Announces Wood Products Leadership Transition   Rayonier Inc. has announced that Ashlee Townsend Cribb has resigned as Executive Vice President, Wood Products to accept a CEO opportunity with a privately-owned, specialty wood products...

North Alabama Sawmill Announces Closure 

North Alabama Sawmill Announces Closure  In north Alabama, Southern Parallel Forest Products Corp. announced plans to shut down its Albertville location, affecting approximately 62 employees. The closure is expected to take effect in April 2026....

Vecoplan AG Announces New CEO

Vecoplan AG Announces New CEO Following Eric Jaschke's appointment to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in December 2025, Vecoplan AG has also strengthened its Executive Board leadership with Dr. Ralf Guckert taking over as Chief Executive Officer...

U.S. Forest Service Announces New Funding Opportunities

U.S. Forest Service Announces New Funding OpportunitiesThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service has announced up to $95 million in competitive grant funding through its Wood Innovations program for projects that advance innovative wood...

Canfor Announces Non-Cash Asset Write Down, Impairment Charge

Canfor Announces Non-Cash Asset Write Down, Impairment ChargeCanfor Corp. has announced that it will record a non-cash asset write down and impairment charge totaling approximately $321 million in its fourth quarter of 2025 results. Of this amount,...

Weyco Expects Strong Growth

Weyco Expects Strong GrowthWeyerhaeuser Co. hosted an Investor Day in December and outlined the company's strategic growth plan and financial targets through 2030. "Weyerhaeuser stands alone in the timberlands, wood products and land solutions...

U.S. Lumber Coalition Taps Steve Swanson For Chair, Again

U.S. Lumber Coalition Taps Steve Swanson For Chair, AgainSteve Swanson, CEO & Executive Chairman of the Swanson Group, and recently named the Timber Processing 2026 Person of the Year, has for the second time assumed the role of Chairman of the...

Rich Bernhardt, Evergreen Engineering Co-Founder, Loses Cancer Battle 

Rich Bernhardt, Evergreen Engineering Co-Founder, Loses Cancer Battle  The co-founder of Evergreen Engineering, Richard Paul Bernhardt, died January 19 after a courageous four-and-a-half-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Bernhardt was born on...

Combilift Fundraiser For UNICEF Has Lots Of Winners

Combilift Fundraiser For UNICEF Has Lots Of Winners  The Combilift Fundraiser in support of UNICEF has officially come to an end. Total tickets purchased, for a chance to win the 100,000th Combilift truck, raised more than €56,000 with Combilift...

John King Chains Celebrates 100th Year 

John King Chains Celebrates 100th Year John King Chains Group is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2026. Established in Leeds, England in 1926, the enterprise began by producing plain pedestal bearings for coal mining pit tubs. Expansion came...

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...

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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...

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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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