by Web Editor | May 9, 2014 | News
How rapidly U.S. housing construction awakens from a deep winter hibernation will determine how strongly B.C. lumber producers continue their recovery, according to new figures from the accounting and consulting firm PwC. So far this year, lumber producers have been...
by Web Editor | May 7, 2014 | News
Western Forest Products B.C. Sawmill Restarts Following Recent Shooting Western Forest Products sawmill workers in Nanaimo will return to the job site in a “soft start” following the shooting deaths of two workers. Michael Lunn, 62, and Fred McEachern, 53, were killed...
by Web Editor | May 5, 2014 | News
Washington Lumber Companies Merge To Form Alta Forest Products TMI Forest Products and Welco Lumber Company USA have become Alta Forest Products LLC, a partnership between longtime Western Red Cedar manufacturers. Morton-based Alta took over the ownership, operations...
by Web Editor | Apr 25, 2014 | News
On the edge of what promises to be another hot, drought-fueled wildfire season, timber companies working under the U.S. Forest Service’s expiring 10-year White Mountain Stewardship Project are running short of wood. Eastern Arizona loggers and mill operators...
by Web Editor | Apr 23, 2014 | News
The reconstruction of the Eacom sawmill in Timmins is just a couple of months from being completed. It will be take longer, however, before mill operators can settle back and declare the job done. “We expect the construction to be finalized within the next two...
by Web Editor | Apr 16, 2014 | News
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission has approved $5 million in financing to aid a timber company in the proposed purchase of an abandoned plant in Union County. The commission approved the financing this week for Southeastern Timber Products El Dorado LLC....
