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U.S. Housing Starts Gain Momentum

U.S. Housing Starts Gain Momentum U.S. housing starts picked up the pace in February, increasing 6.8% over January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.769 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development monthly new...
Our Fathers And Their Children

Our Fathers And Their Children

Our Fathers And Their Children Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing March 2022 My father-in-law, Dr. Woodward D. Lamar, best known as Woodie, died on Thursday morning, February 24, after a brief illness. He was, as the obituary stated, “99 years...

Drax Gets Satellite Pellet Plant Going

Drax Gets Satellite Pellet Plant Going Drax Group is ramping up to full production at Leola—the first of three new satellite pellet plants it plans for Arkansas. Leola, in Grant County, is part of a $40 million investment by Drax in the state, creating approximately...

SFPA EXPO Plans Move To Nashville

SFPA EXPO Plans Move To Nashville   The stage is set. 2023 will mark a new tour for the successful Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO, bringing the show for the first time ever to Nashville, Tenn. and its Music City Center convention center located in...

March 2022

MARCH 2022 Cover: Pleasant River Finds Formula For Drying DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine – Lumber drying is one of the most nuanced elements to the manufacturing of dimension lumber while simultaneously one of the most critical for mills. For Maine’s Pleasant River Lumber,...

Chunk Of Timberland Sold In U.S. South

Chunk Of Timberland Sold In U.S. South Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board’s Tamarack Timberlands LLC, an investment vehicle owned by Ontario Teachers, has assumed ownership of 870,000 acres of timberland in the U.S. South from Resource Management Service (RMS). The...