by Web Editor | Sep 10, 2012 | News
The North American lumber market has, to a large extent, been a buyers market since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, but is now shifting to a sellers market with the increase in demand for lumber by the huge U.S. market. In May, lumber consumption in the...
by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2012 | News
Log exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska totaled 736 million board feet in the first 6 months of 2012, a decrease of 25% compared to the same time last year, according to the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station. During...
by Web Editor | Sep 5, 2012 | News
A record amount of Sierra Pacific Industries land has been torched by the wildfires burning in eastern Shasta County. The nation’s second-largest timber producer estimated that roughly 33,000 acres of its timber had burned as of last Wednesday. The Ponderosa...
by Web Editor | Aug 29, 2012 | News
West Fraser Timber Co. and Western Forest Products Inc. are leading Canadian lumber producers to the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five-year highs to feed a U.S. housing rebound and near-record Chinese demand. Lumber mills in B.C., Canada’s...
by Web Editor | Aug 27, 2012 | News
Ochoco Lumber To Close Sawmill In John Day, Oregon Ochoco Lumber Company announced that Malheur Lumber Company in John Day, Ore. will close its operations for their sawmill and related departments on Nov. 1, 2012. Employees were given the news last Friday of the...
by Web Editor | Aug 24, 2012 | News
It looks like any sawmill in the forest: piles of cherry, walnut and oak tree trunks stacked high, trucks rumbling in and out, workers operating a saw. There’s one exception though: There’s seemingly no forest near its location, right off the highway in...
