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Coastal Lumber Ceases Operations

Coastal Lumber Ceases Operations Charlottesville, Va. based Coastal Lumber Co., long a major hardwood lumber producer, closed operations in mid-August. The company laid off 200 employees and shut down five sawmills in West Virginia, nearly 70 employees and the sawmill...

AbitibiBowater Planning To Reopen Ontario Sawmill

Ignace, Ontario may regain its identity as a forestry town with AbitibiBowater planning to reopen an idled sawmill. The company recently announced its plans to invest $32 million to upgrade the northwestern Ontario mill with plans to resume operations by early 2014....

New Forum Opens Softwood Drying Discussion

New Forum Opens Softwood Drying Discussion Wagner Meters is pleased to announce a new forum focused on the drying of softwoods. The forum is available at KilnDrying.org. Relevant topics as well as respected industry experts are brought to one website to foster...

Russia Wood Factory Grows

Russia Wood Factory Grows Russia has for many years been, by far, the largest exporter of logs in the world. When the country announced a log export tax of 25% in 2007 and the intention to increase this tax to 80% in 2009, many forest companies in Asia and Europe...

Pellet Firm Boosts Capacity

Aggressive wood fuel pellet manufacturer-exporter Enviva LP has increased the announced capacity of the pellet plant it has under construction in Ahoskie, NC. The plant’s productive potential has been elevated by 50,000 metric tons per year to 350,000. Using hardwood,...