by Web Editor | Jun 3, 2013 | News
Canfor Reaches Agreement To Buy Three Mills In U.S. South Canfor Corp. announced it has reached an agreement to purchase three sawmills in the southern U.S., marking the third major purchase in the region this year by a B.C. forest company. “Basically, we have a...
by Web Editor | Jun 3, 2013 | The Issues
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief Am I going to wake up one morning and find that the Southern independent lumberman is extinct? Surely he’s already on the EPA endangered species list, or at least the EPA threatened species list. Do I exaggerate? In reality,...
by Web Editor | May 31, 2013 | News
Lumber exports from the West coast decreased 7 percent in the first quarter of 2013 according to a Forest Service research economist. Log exports increased by 16 percent: from 362 million board feet in the first quarter of 2012, to 420 million board feet in the first...
by Web Editor | May 29, 2013 | News
An Austrian lumber company plans to build a $130 million sawmill near Live Oak, Florida employing 350 people, a project touted as a shot in the arm to the local economy while also raising concerns about its impact on the timber supply and competing sawmills as well as...
by Web Editor | May 20, 2013 | News
Pyramid Mountain Lumber Company in Seeley Lake is the oldest surviving family-owned and operated lumber mill in Montana, surviving a decline in the housing market and operating on a decreasing supply of raw materials. “We’ve seen a lot of mill closures...
by Web Editor | May 17, 2013 | News
International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) announced today that it had reached agreement in principle to acquire the assets of Keadle Lumber Enterprises, Inc. of Thomaston, Georgia. Keadle is a well-regarded producer of high quality southern yellow pine lumber...
