by Web Editor | Nov 7, 2014 | News
A competition run by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering a $2 million prize for new design ideas that will allow taller wood structures to be built in the country. The Tall Wood Building Prize Competition, supported by the Softwood Lumber...
by Web Editor | Oct 31, 2014 | News
Man Dies After Accident At Georgia’s Claude Howard Lumber A Claude Howard Lumber Co. employee died after an apparent accident while working at the sawmill on Park Avenue, officials said. Salvador Hernandez, 32, of Statesboro, had crawled onto a piece of equipment to...
by Web Editor | Oct 27, 2014 | News
Oregon BEST and Oregon State University are teaming with a Southern Oregon timber business in a bid to turn the state into a center for Cross-Laminated Timber Manufacturing. Oregon BEST is investing $150,000 into research to support development of the United...
by Web Editor | Oct 8, 2014 | News
Timber harvests in North America were up for the fourth consecutive year in 2013, reaching 510 million m3, based on analysis by WRI (Wood Resource International). Despite an annual increase of three percent each of the past four years, harvest levels in North America...
by Web Editor | Oct 6, 2014 | News
U.S. lumber prices softened in mid-September on a seasonal lull in construction industry orders during another year in which hopes for strong gains in housing starts were disappointed, industry experts said. The framing lumber composite price, an industry benchmark...
by Web Editor | Sep 24, 2014 | News
Washington’s Simpson Lumber Company Explores Possible Sale Privately owned Simpson Lumber Co. with mills in Tacoma, Longview and Shelton and the Southeast, is on the sale block. The Tacoma-based company has hired a financial adviser to explore the possibility of...