by Web Editor | Mar 9, 2015 | News
New Montana Sawmill Bucks Logging Industry Trends Bill Fenner has cut timber along the Rocky Mountain Front for decades, but the logging industry in the 21st century isn’t what it was 30 years ago. Tightening regulations, slimmer profit margins and diminished...
by Web Editor | Mar 6, 2015 | News
With the deep freeze that has inundated the eastern half of the United States contributing to the drop, prices for logs and lumber processed on the West Coast have dipped over the last couple of months. Sales are down and wood inventories are up. The market today is...
by Web Editor | Mar 4, 2015 | News
Last November, the Hines development company unveiled plans for a new office building in the North Loop section of Minneapolis. Seems like ordinary news, except that the building would be the first of its kind in the U.S to be made primarily of wood. The builders...
by Web Editor | Mar 3, 2015 | The Issues
Getting A Handle On Hardwood Checkoff Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing March 2015 We didn’t intend to include an article on the hardwood checkoff situation in this issue. But beginning on page 10, there it is. As much as our articles are...
by Web Editor | Mar 2, 2015 | News
Interfor Completes Acquisition Of Simpson Lumber Sawmills Interfor Corporation (IFP) announced today it has completed the acquisition of four sawmills from Simpson Lumber Company, LLC, increasing its annual lumber production capacity by 30 percent to 3.1 billion board...
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2015 | News
At first blush, year-end financials and stock prices for B.C.’s largest forest companies would suggest the province’s forestry sector is well on the road to recovery after a decade-long slump. Interfor Corp., for example, posted record sales of $1.4 billion in 2014...
