by Web Editor | May 6, 2013 | News
North American mills are sawing lumber at the fastest pace in six years after a recovering U.S. housing market, a beetle infestation in Canada and increasing Chinese demand drove the biggest price surge in two decades. About 55.5 billion of the industry’s standard...
by Web Editor | May 1, 2013 | News
With new home construction hitting a million new starts a year for the first time since 2008, a national forest management firm reports that timber prices for large standing trees are rising off the bottom and lumber is starting to soar. Marshall Thomas, president of...
by Web Editor | Apr 26, 2013 | News
Canadian Lumber Producers Angry Over Rail Bottlenecks Canada’s lumber producers ought to be enjoying the fruits of a U.S. housing recovery. Trouble is, they can’t take full advantage of it. The forestry companies say that a shortage of rail cars is causing them to...
by Web Editor | Apr 24, 2013 | News
Jordan Forest Products Invests More Than $1.4 Million To Expand In North Carolina Jordan Forest Products, a wood products manufacturing company, will invest more than $1.4 million to expand its production facility in Biscoe, North Carolina. The company plans to create...
by Web Editor | Apr 19, 2013 | News
Citing a lack of federal timber, Rough & Ready Lumber is closing its 90-year-old sawmill in Cave Junction, Oregon the last mill operating in southwest Josephine County. The closure, announced Wednesday, means the loss of 85 jobs. It comes amid a Congressional...
by Web Editor | Apr 15, 2013 | News
Weyerhaeuser is fired up about the housing recovery. It manages and harvests timberlands and manufactures wood products used in home construction, such as plywood, particleboard and engineered wood. Weyerhaeuser also builds single-family homes under various brand...