by Web Editor | May 29, 2013 | News
An Austrian lumber company plans to build a $130 million sawmill near Live Oak, Florida employing 350 people, a project touted as a shot in the arm to the local economy while also raising concerns about its impact on the timber supply and competing sawmills as well as...
by Web Editor | May 20, 2013 | News
Pyramid Mountain Lumber Company in Seeley Lake is the oldest surviving family-owned and operated lumber mill in Montana, surviving a decline in the housing market and operating on a decreasing supply of raw materials. “We’ve seen a lot of mill closures...
by Web Editor | May 17, 2013 | News
International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) announced today that it had reached agreement in principle to acquire the assets of Keadle Lumber Enterprises, Inc. of Thomaston, Georgia. Keadle is a well-regarded producer of high quality southern yellow pine lumber...
by Web Editor | May 13, 2013 | News
U.S. lumber prices are falling in response to a late, cold spring in some parts of the country, and to a sharp first-quarter production increase by mills that may have overestimated gains in housing starts, lumber industry participants said. By early May, industry...
by Web Editor | May 10, 2013 | News
Colorado Senator Mark Udall visited a Montrose sawmill, Thursday, to talk about how the forest industry can help Colorado’s economy. He assisted the mill in obtaining a U.S. Forest Service contract last year. This plan is helping the mill recover. Nieman Enterprise...
by Web Editor | May 8, 2013 | News
Thirty new jobs opened up when the Evergreen sawmill in Montana recently restarted production, and they added one more employee to the schedule. Senator Max Baucus joined employees at the sawmill for a work day. The Democrat, who recently announced his retirement,...
