by Web Editor | Aug 16, 2013 | News
A bench marking study recently completed by The Beck Group reveals that among producers of Southern Pine lumber, mills focused on producing wide lumber (particularly 2×12) were more profitable in 2012 than mills that were not. Typically the large logs that yield wide...
by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2013 | News
In 2012 and especially in Q1/2013, U.S.-based sawmills led all 32 global countries and regions surveyed in financial earnings, mainly from improved demand, a run up in lumber prices and from low log costs. This also meant that North American mills (including Canada)...
by Web Editor | Aug 12, 2013 | News
The importation of softwood lumber and logs to China continues to boom in 2013, as reported in Wood Resources Quarterly. Second quarter numbers are up $600 million from an impressive first quarter that followed a rough 2012. The numbers are also up 30% from the same...
by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2013 | The Issues
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief We had our doubts, and it seems everybody else did as well. Back in May 2012, the U.S. Forest Service selected a company nobody had ever heard of, Pioneer Forest Products, to perform restoration thinning on 300,000 acres over 10...
by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2013 | News
All indications are that the future may be bright for Western Forest Products, which operates two sawmills in Nanaimo, and the province’s forest industry after years of struggle. WFP, one of the largest forest companies in the province, reported in May that it...
by Web Editor | Aug 7, 2013 | News
One of the last major Alaska sawmill operations in Wrangell has been destroyed by fire. Mike Allen Enterprizes burned to the ground in Tuesday’s mid-afternoon fire at 13 Mile Zimovia Highway. The distance as well as unreliable phone service made firefighting a...
