by Web Editor | Oct 17, 2011 | News
The U.S. Forest Service, Forest Products Lab, has awarded APA—The Engineered Wood Assn. $331,000 to support several residential construction programs. The programs build on the successful Carbon Challenge design competition and seminars that were completed earlier...
by Web Editor | Oct 11, 2011 | The Issues
Story by David Abbott, Senior Associate Editor I recently had occasion to browse through some of Hatton-Brown’s archives of Timber Processing’s illustrious past, material from long before my time. My research took me back 20 years exactly, to the 1991 bound volume,...
by Web Editor | Oct 10, 2011 | News
Colorado Homebuilders Called To Use Beetle-Killed Timber Senator Mark Udall recently called on Colorado homebuilders to use beetle-killed trees to build homes, thus clearing local forests of hazardous trees and creating jobs in the process. At an event showcasing a...
by Web Editor | Sep 26, 2011 | News
Washington Based Stimson Lumber Mill Facing Closure The Washington State Employment Security Department said last week that the Stimson Lumber Mill in Arden, Wash. will layoff 67 of its workers in November and eventually shut down the mill. The 67 impending layoffs...
by Web Editor | Sep 19, 2011 | News
Bandit Industries, Remus, Mich., recently received an Environmental Protection Agency award in recognition of efforts to reduce hazardous chemicals through the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) program. The award was presented to Bandit...
by Site Manager | Sep 12, 2011 | The Issues
Expo Was Good, But The News Upon Return Was Lousy Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing 2011 We returned from the machinery show in Atlanta in a good mood. Despite the current housing quagmire, most exhibitors we talked to were pleased with the...
