by Web Editor | Sep 12, 2011 | News
Coastal Lumber Ceases Operations Charlottesville, Va. based Coastal Lumber Co., long a major hardwood lumber producer, closed operations in mid-August. The company laid off 200 employees and shut down five sawmills in West Virginia, nearly 70 employees and the sawmill...
by Web Editor | Sep 6, 2011 | News
Ignace, Ontario may regain its identity as a forestry town with AbitibiBowater planning to reopen an idled sawmill. The company recently announced its plans to invest $32 million to upgrade the northwestern Ontario mill with plans to resume operations by early 2014....
by Web Editor | Aug 26, 2011 | News
Conference Overview The production of energy from woody biomass can be an important component of a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy security. Biomass represents 79% of independent renewable energy generation in North Carolina...
by Web Editor | Aug 7, 2011 | The Issues
Story by Dan Shell, Managing Editor No doubt about it, North American sawmillers are in the middle of a truly rough patch of markets and operating conditions right now: Five years ago the housing market began to crumble; three years ago the financial crisis hit like a...
by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2011 | News
New Forum Opens Softwood Drying Discussion Wagner Meters is pleased to announce a new forum focused on the drying of softwoods. The forum is available at KilnDrying.org. Relevant topics as well as respected industry experts are brought to one website to foster...
by bcarter | Jul 12, 2011 | News
Russia Wood Factory Grows Russia has for many years been, by far, the largest exporter of logs in the world. When the country announced a log export tax of 25% in 2007 and the intention to increase this tax to 80% in 2009, many forest companies in Asia and Europe...
