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...
by Web Editor | Mar 28, 2018 | News
U.S. consumption of softwood lumber is likely to reach record-highs by 2030 according to a new study from ForestEdge and Wood Resources International. The study forecasts that U.S. softwood lumber demand will grow at an annual rate of 2.3 percent through 2030, which...
