by Web Editor | Mar 7, 2014 | News
Mark Elston followed his father into the timber industry back when business was booming. “When I started, you could really mess things up and still make good money,” he said. “You can’t do that anymore.” Elston runs a lumber mill in...
by Web Editor | Mar 5, 2014 | News
Oregon’s Hull-Oakes Lumber Company Embraces Niche With one foot in the past and one in the future, Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. took a big step last year. A timber-milling outfit famous for having one of the last steam-powered sawmills in the United States, Hull-Oakes...
by Web Editor | Mar 3, 2014 | News
Canfor Corp. says it has an agreement to sell the Daaquam sawmill in Saint-Just-de-Bretenières, Que., in a deal worth $25 million. The deal with Groupe Lebel Inc. and others is expected to close by the end of March, Canfor said in a release on Friday. The Daaquam mill...
by Web Editor | Feb 28, 2014 | News
Klausner Lumber Florida Sawmill Construction Imminent Klausner Lumber One LLC could soon begin construction on a sawmill that will be located at the catalyst site in Northwestern Suwannee County. Meanwhile, improvements continue on county owned land at the catalyst...
by Web Editor | Feb 26, 2014 | News
West Coast Log And Lumber Exports Increased By 20 Percent In 2013 Log and lumber exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska increased by 20 percent in volume in 2013 compared to 2012, the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station...
by Web Editor | Feb 21, 2014 | News
As brutal weather patterns continued across the most populated parts of North America, lumber and panel traders reported mostly flat prices on solid wood commodities, writes Keta Kosman, publisher of Madison’s Lumber Reporter. Most commonly-traded dimensions...