by Web Editor | May 8, 2018 | News
New $100 Million Lumber Facility Set To Open In Texas Angelina Forest Products, LLC announced plans to build a new softwood lumber production plant in Lufkin, Texas. The company purchased the former General Electric Buck Creek site and will begin construction of a...
by Web Editor | May 4, 2018 | News
Alabama CLT Plant Is Nearly Operational The first and biggest cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing plant in the eastern U.S. is nearly fully operational, with 25 employees currently working a portion of the plant. Florida-based International Beams (IB), a...
by Web Editor | Apr 27, 2018 | News
The Beck Group (Beck) and Forest2Market, Inc. recently announced a partnership to launch Sawmill TQ (Top Quartile), a new service for gathering and delivering Southern Yellow Pine sawmill benchmark data to industry members. The partnership combines Beck’s sawmill...
by Web Editor | Apr 23, 2018 | News
Maine’s Pleasant River Lumber Awarded Grant; Will Expand Two Sawmills The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) recently awarded a $4,226,000 challenge grant from the Maine Technology Asset Fund 2.0 program to the Pleasant River Lumber Company. The $4.2 million will be...
by Web Editor | Apr 20, 2018 | News
Softwood lumber exports from British Columbia to the U.S. have fallen 20 percent from last March, according to the Canadian federal government. British Columbia – Canada’s largest lumber-producing province – exported just over 514 million board feet...
by Web Editor | Apr 4, 2018 | News
Alabama’s Westervelt Company Plans New Sawmill A 130-year-old Tuscaloosa company is preparing to build a new lumber mill in south Alabama, which is expected to create more than 100 jobs and produce 250 million board feet of lumber annually. The Westervelt Co. said in...
