by Kirkland | Jun 20, 2023 | News
Luoma Announces Retirement Longtime executive and manager in the wood products industry, for years with LP, Brian Luoma announced he is retiring at the end of 2023 from his position as president and CEO of The Westervelt Co. Luoma joined Alabama-based Westervelt as...
by Kirkland | Jun 19, 2023 | The Issues
Maybe The Markets Will Surprise Us Once Again Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing June 2023 If you didn’t notice it on the cover, your eyes are getting as bad as mine, but yes this is our annual U.S. Sawmill Operations and Capital Expenditure...
by Kirkland | Jun 1, 2023 | Magazine
JUNE 2023 Cover: Softwood Lumbermen Tone Down Optimism . . . So Do Hardwooders While U.S. softwood lumbermen aren’t as upbeat as a year ago, they’re still upgrading their mills, and maybe building new ones. Market conditions are getting tougher and many...
by Kirkland | May 25, 2023 | News
Hampton Lumber Names Schillinger New CEO Hampton Lumber named Randy Schillinger as CEO, following the retirement of Steve Zika, who had served as CEO at Hampton since 2003. Zika assumes a position as Vice Chairman of the Hampton Board. Schillinger has more than 25...
by Kirkland | May 19, 2023 | Machinery Row
Combilift Launches New Product At Ligna As leading forklift manufacturer Combilift continues its 25 years in business celebrations with the launch of another new model truck, this time at Ligna, the international timber and woodworking show, held in Hanover. The new...
by Kirkland | May 17, 2023 | News
Housing Starts Increase In April Housing starts across the U.S. increased in April 2.2% to 1.4 million according the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, New Residential Construction report released May 17. Notably, this is 22.3%...
