The Issues
Straight from the print magazine, the editors use this column to provide deeper insights into features, provide editorial comments on current events, and maybe even ramble just a little bit. The Issues is your chance to peek into their minds.
What Is An Encoder Anyway?
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing March 2020 We’ve been having some fun with sawmill terminology lately. We always so when we hire a new editor fresh out of college, who has been a…
Tough Times Demand Focus On Making Small Improvements
Story by Dan Shell, Managing Editor No doubt about it, North American sawmillers are in the middle of a truly rough patch of markets and operating conditions right now: Five years ago the housing market…
Look Long-Term For Better Markets
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1548381510056-0’); }); Article by Dan Shell, Managing Editor, Timber Processing (2011) The other day I attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the world’s largest fuel pellet plant in Waycross, Ga. The Georgia Biomass facility…
Promoting Ourselves Home And Abroad
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief Last November in this space we informed you that Timber Processing had gone global, adding 1,200 sawmill owners, managers and other lumber industry professionals from outside of North America to…
Remember When You Didn’t See It Coming?
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief This issue focuses on our Sawmill Capital Expenditure Survey of softwood and hardwood lumbermen throughout the United States. The results coming out of the survey are quite interesting. I won’t…
Is The New Wood Bioenergy Market Going To Stick?
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief Your head would have to be buried in the sand to not hear or read about the ongoing developments in what we call “the new generation” wood bioenergy industry. Of…
Optimizing The New Labor
Story by Dan Shell, Managing Editor Responding to an email follow-up question about sawmill labor, TP 2011 Man of the Year and WKO Inc. President Bill Wilkins wrote: “The issue of automated equipment not being…
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