by Kirkland | May 18, 2021 | News
Single-Family Starts Dip, But Multi-Family Ticks Upward U.S. housing starts (single-family and multi-family combined) came in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.569 million in April, down 9.5% from March but 67% above April 2020 when the pandemic severely hit...
by Kirkland | May 17, 2021 | News
Stimpson Retires After Active Career Fred Stimpson, one of the Stimpson family members who ran Gulf Lumber Co. in Mobile, and who was most recently president of Canfor Southern Pine for six years, announced his retirement this past December. In April Canfor elected...
by Kirkland | May 17, 2021 | News
Satellite Pellet Mills Will Count On Sawmill Byproducts Drax Group will begin constructing the first of three new “satellite” pellet plants in Arkansas, the company has announced. The three plants are together expected to produce around 120,000 metric tons of...
by Kirkland | May 17, 2021 | Machinery Row
Microtec Announces Branding Strategy Microtec, a global leader of scanning and optimization solutions for the sawmilling and wood processing industry, announced the official integration and inclusion of FinScan and WoodEye within the Microtec family. From now on the...
by Kirkland | May 7, 2021 | News
Alabama Mill Plans To Build Back Thankfully no injuries were reported after an air compressor exploded and started a fire at East Alabama Lumber’s sawmill at Lafayette, Ala. on April 22, 2021. The fire took out most of the sawmill in the primary breakdown area. “We’ve...
by Kirkland | Apr 28, 2021 | The Issues
It’s Next Up For Many Independent Sawmills Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing May 2021 The cover story for this issue, on Dempsey Wood Products in Orangeburg, SC, provides further evidence that I am aging quickly. But in a good way. What I...
