by Kirkland | Jul 19, 2022 | News
U.S. Single-Family Housing Starts Dip, But Multi-Family Shows Strength U.S. housing starts continued to slip in June, coming in at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.559 million, which was down 2% from May and down 6.3% from June 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau...
by Kirkland | Jul 14, 2022 | News
Softwood Board, FS Announce Mass Timber Awards The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and USDA Forest Service recently awarded $2 million total to six projects that highlight innovative architectural design and mass timber’s significant role in carbon reduction. According to...
by Kirkland | Jul 11, 2022 | News
BID Group Purchasing Smith Sawmill Service BID Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Smith Sawmill Service. The transaction further expands BID’s product and service offerings to include the essential recurring saw and tooling capabilities required to support...
by Kirkland | Jul 6, 2022 | News
UFP Industries Acquires 50% Stake In Dempsey Wood Products UFP Industries has announced that its affiliate, PalletOne, Inc., has acquired a 50% equity stake in South Carolina sawmill company, Dempsey Wood Products, LLC. The purchase agreement includes options for...
by Kirkland | Jun 21, 2022 | News
New SYP Sawmill Stirs Up Dust Looks like construction of the new Canfor $160 million southern yellow pine sawmill in DeRidder, La. is in motion, according to these photos taken by Senior Editor Jessica Johnson as she was passing through the area in early June...
by Kirkland | Jun 21, 2022 | News
Justin Price Becomes 75th FPS President Evergreen Engineering co-CEO Justin Price will serve as president of the Forest Products Society for the 2022-23 term. Price takes over from Terry Liles, Director of Raw Materials for Huber Engineered Woods. Price, who has been...
