by Web Editor | Feb 16, 2018 | News
North Carolina Company Planning CLT Plant In Maine, Promises 100 Jobs A North Carolina manufacturer plans to create more than 100 jobs by becoming Maine’s first producer of a composite wood strong enough to replace concrete and steel in high-rise buildings. LignaTerra...
by Web Editor | Feb 12, 2018 | News
Arkansas will ask 120 of its active sawmills to participate in a survey, which will allow it to construct year-end harvest and production reports. “The Timber Products Output Survey (TPO) helps us better understand the forest industry, and increases the...
by Web Editor | Feb 7, 2018 | News
Maine’s Hancock Lumber Acquires Mainely Trusses Hancock Lumber of Casco said Monday that it has acquired Mainely Trusses, a roof and floor truss manufacturer based in Fairfield. The acquisition will add a new product line to Hancock’s manufacturing portfolio, the...
by Web Editor | Feb 5, 2018 | News
Greenpeace and other environmental groups urged a California federal court to dismiss a complaint by Resolute Forest Products, which alleges defamation and racketeering arising from an environmentalist anti-logging campaign, says Law360. U.S. District Judge Jon S....
by Web Editor | Feb 2, 2018 | News
The Canadian government has suggested it might drop its major international trade case against the U.S., if it gets a softwood lumber deal. Canada has filed a wide-ranging complaint to the World Trade Organization about the way the U.S. applies punitive tariffs,...
by Web Editor | Jan 31, 2018 | News
American Forest & Paper Association President and CEO Donna Harman and American Wood Council President and CEO Robert Glowinski issued the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) issuance of new guidance to reclassify certain...