by Web Editor | Aug 10, 2012 | News
Work is beginning to rebuild a Timmins sawmill destroyed by fire this past winter. About 120 people were put out of work in January when the Eacom mill was shutdown after the blaze. Company vice-president Mel Lemky said he’s ordering new machinery. In the...
by Web Editor | Aug 8, 2012 | News
China’s slowing economy may benefit Oregon’s lumber and plywood mills by making more timber available at reasonable prices, industry observers say. Wood Resource Quarterly, an industry journal based in Seattle, reported China reduced log imports from the...
by Web Editor | Aug 6, 2012 | News
For some reason, investors seem to be wary of stocks. It may be because bonds have beaten the stuffing out of stocks for the past 20 years. It may be the stream of scandals plaguing Wall Street. Or it may be that they are Facebook shareholders. So today’s column...
by Web Editor | Aug 3, 2012 | News
Sawdust, wood shavings and chips, which are suspected to have played a part in two recent deadly sawmill explosions, have also fuelled dozens of fires at B.C. sawmills over the past decade. Sawdust was listed as the material that first caught fire in more than half of...
by Web Editor | Aug 1, 2012 | News
Austria’s Klausner Group Plans To Build Sawmill In North Florida The U.S. subsidiary of Austrian lumber giant Klausner Group is planning to build a 700 million board ft./year sawmill in North Florida, Euwid reported on July 30. Few details have apparently been...
by Web Editor | Jul 30, 2012 | News
Weyerhaeuser Co., one of the industry’s largest supplier of wood products, reported net sales from continuing operations of $1.8 billion for its second fiscal quarter, a 12.5% increase over net sales from continuing operations of $1.6 billion in the second quarter a...
