by Web Editor | Nov 14, 2011 | News
British Columbia has broken another record in lumber exports to China this year, with shipments already surpassing 2010’s record total. According to the latest international merchandise trade data released by Statistics Canada, lumber exports over the first...
by Web Editor | Nov 11, 2011 | The Issues
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief I have witnessed two product-related crises in the southern pine lumber industry during my nearly 30 years of writing for this magazine. The first occurred in the mid 1980s, when southern pine lumber producers received a serious...
by Web Editor | Nov 11, 2011 | News
Swanson Lumber recently announced that they are planning extended shutdowns due to hard times in the lumber industry at sawmills in Glendale and Roseburg, which will idle about 700 workers. The mills will shut down for two weeks starting Nov. 14. Two company owned...
by Web Editor | Nov 4, 2011 | News
Georgia-Pacific Closing Two Southeastern Mills Georgia-Pacific announced on November 1, 2011 that it is closing two sawmills in the southeast, one in Monticello, Ga. and one in Marion County, Miss. The closing of the Monticello mill, a stud plant, will affect about 50...
by Web Editor | Oct 31, 2011 | News
Georgia Mill Planning Downtime Jordan Forest Products in Barnesville, Ga. is closing its lumber manufacturing plant during the months of November and December. The 91 workers there were notified on October 18 of the scheduled downtime that has been blamed on “a poor...
by Web Editor | Oct 24, 2011 | News
Portland-based lumber company Hampton Affiliates announced on October 17 that it will lay off 80 workers at its Darrington, Wash. sawmill in response to poor domestic sales and more log exports to China. The announcement comes only a month after the company announced...
