by Web Editor | Apr 20, 2012 | News
Results of a multi‐client benchmarking study show that in spite of operational improvements, dimension lumber mills in the U.S. West have struggled to overcome the narrowing gap between log prices and lumber selling values. The study included 10 dimension lumber...
by Web Editor | Apr 18, 2012 | News
Canfor has completed the acquisition of the Tembec Industries Ltd.’s southern British Columbia interior wood products assets consisting of the Elko and Canal Flats sawmills and approximately 1.1 million m3 of combined Crown, private land and contract annual allowable...
by Web Editor | Apr 16, 2012 | News
The powerful softwood lumber lobby in the United States is suggesting it could thwart Canada’s efforts to join a Pacific free trade zone if its neighbor refuses to address long-standing irritants. Zoltan van Heyningen, executive director of the U.S. Lumber...
by Web Editor | Apr 13, 2012 | News
The American lumber lobby says the B.C. government has been under-charging coastal forest companies for timber harvested on Crown lands to the tune of $70 million a year. And that throws into question the accuracy of B.C.’s marketpricing system, according to the...
by Site Manager | Apr 12, 2012 | News
Boise Kinzua Sawmill PILOT ROCK, Ore. – When it acquired the northeast Oregon mill here three years ago, Boise Cascade LLC sought to avoid the impression of big corporate culture “taking over” the facility, says Plant Superintendent Mike Zojonc. “There had...
by Web Editor | Apr 9, 2012 | The Issues
You’re in a meeting. The flip chart reflects what everybody already knows—sales are in the tank and the company is close to flatlining. What to do? For the next few minutes you are admonished to “think outside the box” and so begins another fruitless brainstorming...
