by Kirkland | May 18, 2022 | News
Multi-Family Housing Continues Surge U.S. single-family housing starts in April dipped 7.3% from March to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.1 million, but multi-family starts (five units or more) shot up 16.8% over March to 612,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau...
by Kirkland | May 18, 2022 | The Issues
How’s Your Log Supply Chain? Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Timber Processing May 2022 In between looking for extra employees to fill out another shift or solidify the one or two already in place, or perhaps looking for larger vaults to hold the cash...
by Kirkland | May 16, 2022 | News
Softwood Lumber Board Updates Board Members Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has reappointed George Emmerson, J.D. Hankins II, Brian Luoma and Brad Thorlakson to serve second terms on the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) Board of Directors. He has also appointed past...
by Kirkland | May 16, 2022 | News
PLIB Partners With TP&EE Hatton-Brown Expositions and Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau announce that PLIB will participate in the Preferred Partner program with Hatton-Brown’s Timber Processing & Energy Expo (TP&EE), which will be held September 28-30 at...
by Kirkland | May 9, 2022 | Magazine
MAY 2022 Cover: New Owners Bring Vicksburg Mill Back To Life VICKSBURG, Mississippi – There is a reason, or several of them, not many mills convert from cutting hardwood to cutting southern yellow pine—but that’s exactly what Vicksburg Forest Products (VFP) did when...
by Kirkland | Apr 28, 2022 | The Issues
Pres-To-Logs Has History Of Its Own Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing April 2022 The story in this issue on North Idaho Energy Logs, written by David Abbott, caught my attention at the mention of Pres-to-logs. Much of the Idaho company’s...