by Web Editor | Sep 5, 2012 | News
A record amount of Sierra Pacific Industries land has been torched by the wildfires burning in eastern Shasta County. The nation’s second-largest timber producer estimated that roughly 33,000 acres of its timber had burned as of last Wednesday. The Ponderosa...
by Web Editor | Aug 29, 2012 | News
West Fraser Timber Co. and Western Forest Products Inc. are leading Canadian lumber producers to the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five-year highs to feed a U.S. housing rebound and near-record Chinese demand. Lumber mills in B.C., Canada’s...
by Web Editor | Aug 28, 2012 | The Issues
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief I hope by now you’ve made plans to attend the Timber Processing & Energy Expo scheduled this October 17-19 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. This is a new event sponsored by this magazine and our publishing...
by Web Editor | Aug 27, 2012 | News
Ochoco Lumber To Close Sawmill In John Day, Oregon Ochoco Lumber Company announced that Malheur Lumber Company in John Day, Ore. will close its operations for their sawmill and related departments on Nov. 1, 2012. Employees were given the news last Friday of the...
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...
