by Web Editor | Mar 28, 2016 | News
Seneca Sawmill in Eugene is more than halfway through a $60 million equipment upgrade to its complex off Highway 99. The improvements should be complete this September, Chief Executive Todd Payne said on Tuesday. The investment by the family-owned company allows...
by Web Editor | Mar 21, 2016 | News
The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region remains a key destination for American softwoods amid the increasing demand within the region’s booming construction and housing market, according to American Softwoods (AMSO). The promotional partnership formed by...
by Web Editor | Mar 18, 2016 | News
Global trade of softwood lumber reached a 10-year high in 2015, with lumber prices trending downward in many key markets over the course of the year, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. A majority of the 20 largest softwood lumber-consuming countries in the world...
by Web Editor | Mar 16, 2016 | News
Oregon’s Mary’s River Lumber Company Closes Mary’s River Lumber Co., which had 80 workers at a cedar sawmill in Philomath and a finishing plant in Corvallis, has ceased operations after 42 years. The closure came on Monday because of difficulties in finding suitable...
by Web Editor | Mar 7, 2016 | News
DR Johnson Lumber Co., based in the small Oregon town of Riddle, is poised at the forefront of what could be a revolutionary use of wood as a building material in the Northwest. Don R. Johnson founded the mill in 1951. Following his death in 2010, his daughters...
by Web Editor | Feb 26, 2016 | News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today that a continuance referendum will be conducted among eligible domestic (U.S.) manufacturers and importers of softwood lumber from August 1 through Aug. 25, 2016. The...
