by Web Editor | Oct 27, 2014 | News
Oregon BEST and Oregon State University are teaming with a Southern Oregon timber business in a bid to turn the state into a center for Cross-Laminated Timber Manufacturing. Oregon BEST is investing $150,000 into research to support development of the United...
by Web Editor | Oct 8, 2014 | News
Timber harvests in North America were up for the fourth consecutive year in 2013, reaching 510 million m3, based on analysis by WRI (Wood Resource International). Despite an annual increase of three percent each of the past four years, harvest levels in North America...
by Web Editor | Oct 6, 2014 | News
U.S. lumber prices softened in mid-September on a seasonal lull in construction industry orders during another year in which hopes for strong gains in housing starts were disappointed, industry experts said. The framing lumber composite price, an industry benchmark...
by Web Editor | Oct 3, 2014 | The Issues
Story by David Abbott, Senior Associate Editor In late July and early August my job took me to Ohio and West Virginia, primarily on behalf of companion periodical Timber Harvesting magazine. I was assigned to pick up the story on the Caudill family, which was named...
by Web Editor | Sep 24, 2014 | News
Washington’s Simpson Lumber Company Explores Possible Sale Privately owned Simpson Lumber Co. with mills in Tacoma, Longview and Shelton and the Southeast, is on the sale block. The Tacoma-based company has hired a financial adviser to explore the possibility of...
by Web Editor | Sep 22, 2014 | News
A new Arizona sawmill opened Monday west of Flagstaff after two years of planning. Newpac Fibre, LLC opened its sawmill in Williams at the location of a former sawmill site that closed in 1995. The company is bringing back an industry that died decades ago to a town...
