by HB Media | Feb 10, 2026 | News
SFI President & CEO Kathy Abusow To Retire The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has announced that President and CEO Kathy Abusow will retire in 2026, concluding an extraordinary career marked by visionary leadership. Abusow has led SFI through a period of...
by HB Media | Feb 10, 2026 | News
Steve Swanson Is Timber Processing’s 2026 Person of the Year Longtime Northwest forest products executive Steve Swanson, CEO of Swanson Group based in Roseburg, Ore., was named Timber Processing magazine’s 2026 Person of the Year in its February 2026 issue....
by HB Media | Jan 13, 2026 | News
Webster Industries Purchases Renold MPE Partners along with its portfolio company, Webster Industries, announced the closing of its acquisition of Renold plc, a leading designer, engineer, manufacturer, and supplier of premium, high specification industrial chain and...
by HB Media | Jan 13, 2026 | News
Richard Vetter Becomes CEO Of RPM Real Performance Machinery (RPM) announced a reorganization of its executive leadership team. Richard Vetter, one of the company’s founding members and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since 2023, assumes the role of Chief Executive...
by HB Media | Jan 13, 2026 | News
Weyco Wood Fiber Will Feed Aymium Biocarbon Weyerhaeuser Co. and Aymium entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to partner to produce and sell 1.5 million tons of sustainable biocarbon annually for use in metals production. As an initial stage of this partnership,...
by HB Media | Jan 13, 2026 | News
U.S. Lumber Coalition Pulls No Punches With New Year Statement Softwood lumber prices remain at historically low levels. Prices today are 54% lower than their 1975 average and 49% lower than their 1995 average, adjusted for inflation, yet Canada and the National...
