by Kirkland | Jul 7, 2020 | News
Indonesia To Keep Export License System Backing off an earlier announcement that Indonesian wood products exporters would no longer need to obtain a license showing the wood’s origin and legality, Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade recently reversed itself after an outcry...
by Kirkland | Jul 7, 2020 | News
Interfor Lays Off Gilchrist Staff Following an earlier announcement, Interfor began laying off 130 of 150 employees at its Gilchrist, Ore. sawmill in late June 2020. Company officials cited difficulties with the coronavirus issue and overall market conditions as...
by Kirkland | Jul 7, 2020 | News
Wood ID Lab Moves To Oregon State Thanks to a five-year, $4 million federal grant from the Forest Service International Programs Office, the Wood Identification and Screening Center (WISC) is moving to Oregon State University, where it will join the College of...
by Kirkland | Jul 6, 2020 | News
Oregon Salamander Lives With Logging Following a seven-year study of 88 timber tracts across Oregon’s western Cascade Range, researchers have concluded no “discernable difference” in populations and occupancy of a rare salamander on recently harvested stands...
by Kirkland | Jun 17, 2020 | News
SmartLam Teams With RedBuilt SmartLam North America and RedBuilt announced a partnership to supply cross-laminated timber (CLT) products and solutions to architects, engineers and contractors for projects using the mass timber building technology. RedBuilt will serve...
by Kirkland | Jun 17, 2020 | News
Survey Says: Lumbermen Are Feeling The COVID-19 Pinch As part of the June issue of Timber Processing, the 2020 Sawmill Operations and Capital Expenditure Survey included a special set of questions relating directly to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which at the...
