by Web Editor | Jul 29, 2015 | News
Seneca Sawmill Co. announced Friday it has started a $60 million upgrade of its west Eugene lumber mill. Paving crews were flattening a corner lot of Seneca’s Highway 99 mill site Friday to prepare for construction of two dry kilns, part of what Seneca described as a...
by Web Editor | Jul 29, 2015 | The Issues
Article by Rich Donnell Editor-in-Chief As usual we enjoyed our exhibit experience at the Southern Forest Products Assn. exposition in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta June 10-12. While it’s always great to see “old” faces, we especially like seeing some...
by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2015 | News
Voters in Banks brought about 200 acres of additional land into city limits last November and they’ll decide on two more property annexations in September 2015. This time around, though, the land being voted on totals only about 8 acres, and none of it is slated...
by Web Editor | Jul 22, 2015 | News
The proposed Hardwood Checkoff program is receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from those in the business of growing dependable, high quality timber for the hardwood lumber industry. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has asked for public...
by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2015 | News
While U.S. hardwood exports lagged in May and June 2015, domestic demand for hardwood lumber continued to improve. Home construction, which dipped in May, was set to move higher, as both permitting and builder confidence rose – which played out as expected when...
by Web Editor | Jul 17, 2015 | News
A trend whereby B.C. forest products companies have been snapping up sawmills south of the border while shuttering plants here is likely to continue. That prediction, from a new Conference Board report, is part of a good news/bad news story about a sector contributing...
