by Web Editor | Aug 24, 2012 | News
It looks like any sawmill in the forest: piles of cherry, walnut and oak tree trunks stacked high, trucks rumbling in and out, workers operating a saw. There’s one exception though: There’s seemingly no forest near its location, right off the highway in...
by Web Editor | Aug 20, 2012 | News
Lumber and wood products firm Sierra Pacific Industries has its help-wanted sign out, with rising demand reactivating dormant plants and putting workers on overtime. At Sierra Pacific Industries, job listings include a millwright/machine maintenance technician for the...
by Web Editor | Aug 17, 2012 | News
Union Pacific is pulling railcars from storage for the first time in four years to haul lumber for home builders, a welcome source of strength for an industry that’s bucking the effects of a slowing economy. North American rail carloads of lumber and wood products...
by Web Editor | Aug 10, 2012 | News
Work is beginning to rebuild a Timmins sawmill destroyed by fire this past winter. About 120 people were put out of work in January when the Eacom mill was shutdown after the blaze. Company vice-president Mel Lemky said he’s ordering new machinery. In the...
by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2012 | The Issues
Story by Dan Shell, Managing Editor Located in north central Arizona, the newest greenfield sawmill in the U.S. (see page 6) is taking shape, representing the culmination of a decade-long effort by public and private groups and also an unprecedented move by the U.S....
by Web Editor | Aug 8, 2012 | News
China’s slowing economy may benefit Oregon’s lumber and plywood mills by making more timber available at reasonable prices, industry observers say. Wood Resource Quarterly, an industry journal based in Seattle, reported China reduced log imports from the...
