by Web Editor | May 9, 2014 | News
How rapidly U.S. housing construction awakens from a deep winter hibernation will determine how strongly B.C. lumber producers continue their recovery, according to new figures from the accounting and consulting firm PwC. So far this year, lumber producers have been...
by Web Editor | May 7, 2014 | News
Western Forest Products B.C. Sawmill Restarts Following Recent Shooting Western Forest Products sawmill workers in Nanaimo will return to the job site in a “soft start” following the shooting deaths of two workers. Michael Lunn, 62, and Fred McEachern, 53, were killed...
by Web Editor | May 5, 2014 | News
Washington Lumber Companies Merge To Form Alta Forest Products TMI Forest Products and Welco Lumber Company USA have become Alta Forest Products LLC, a partnership between longtime Western Red Cedar manufacturers. Morton-based Alta took over the ownership, operations...
by Web Editor | May 2, 2014 | The Issues
Many people tend to recall that the Great Recession began with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers financial firm in September 2008. But those of us associated with the forest products industry, and especially you who walk up and down catwalks in sawmills every day,...
by Web Editor | Apr 25, 2014 | News
On the edge of what promises to be another hot, drought-fueled wildfire season, timber companies working under the U.S. Forest Service’s expiring 10-year White Mountain Stewardship Project are running short of wood. Eastern Arizona loggers and mill operators...
by Web Editor | Apr 25, 2014 | The Issues
Franklin Startup Brings Back Memories of New Sawmill Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief, Timber Processing April 2014 We’ve been reading a lot about Canadian forest products companies buying southern pine sawmills. We haven’t read so much about U.S. independent...
