by Web Editor | Nov 18, 2016 | News
Struggling Timber Industry Puts Rural Idaho At Crossroads David Bartlett stopped frequently to chat with friends as he made inquiries with employers at a recent Idaho Department of Labor job fair in Orofino. The nonchalance of the former Tri-Pro Forest Products...
by Web Editor | Nov 11, 2016 | News
New Sawmill To Open In Louisiana Le Moyen Mill & Timber LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Adobe Machinery Group, revealed plans to acquire land in order to develop a wood products manufacturing facility in LeMoyen, La. Financial details of the transaction were not...
by Web Editor | Nov 9, 2016 | The Issues
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief We give over many pages in this issue to coverage of the Timber Processing & Energy Expo that was held in Portland, Ore. September 28-30. Why wouldn’t we? It’s our show. Yes, every two years we at Hatton-Brown Publishers,...
by Web Editor | Nov 4, 2016 | News
It’s being called a once-in-a-lifetime occasion for the lumber and building industries: Following extensive testing at the University of Maine, Norway spruce has been approved for use as a construction-grade material in the U.S. In the 1930’s, Civilian...
by Web Editor | Nov 2, 2016 | News
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, together with Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) during Sunday’s European Union-Canada...
by Web Editor | Oct 28, 2016 | News
The Canadian government is warning U.S. politicians about the consequences of a possible new softwood lumber dispute. A letter from International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland and David MacNaughton, the Canadian ambassador to Washington, went out today to two-dozen...