by Web Editor | Jun 26, 2015 | News
Roseburg Forest Products Moving Oregon Headquarters Big changes are coming to Roseburg Forest Products in Dillard. RFP has announced it’s moving its headquarters to Springfield. Officials with the company say they want to expand its resources to be able to recruit...
by Web Editor | Jun 24, 2015 | News
In the 60 years since Bob Jordan III joined his family’s North Carolina sawmill business, he hasn’t seen anything quite like the Canadian invasion of the South’s lumber industry. “You didn’t have people coming in from the outside — we never had this before,”...
by Web Editor | Jun 12, 2015 | News
Western Forest Products is spending $30 million — most of it in Nanaimo — to upgrade three Vancouver Island sawmills. Lee Doney, company chairman, said today at the Duke Point mill: “Our harvesting strategies and continued demand for our western red cedar and...
by Web Editor | Jun 10, 2015 | News
Washington’s Allen Logging Lumber Mill Expects To Cease Operations Next Month Allen Logging, the last production lumber mill on the North Olympic Peninsula’s West End, expects to cease operations by mid-July. The closure will idle 45 workers, including drivers,...
by Web Editor | Jun 8, 2015 | News
A Quebec-based company that completed the purchase of Fraser Timber’s lumber mill in Masardis in January will temporarily layoff its 135 employees next week due to market conditions. The layoff at Maibec will last four weeks, according to Charles Tardif, vice...
by Web Editor | Jun 8, 2015 | The Issues
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief The majority of this issue—nearly 30 pages in fact—is devoted to the results of our annual Sawmill Capital Expenditure Survey. Again we’ve broken it down into two sections—softwood lumber and hardwood lumber. I’m not sure if...
