by Kirkland | Jan 21, 2021 | News
Robert Jordan, IV Named Timber Processing Magazine 2021 Person Of The Year Robert Jordan, IV, president and CEO of the Jordan Companies, is the 2021 Timber Processing Person of the Year, 14 years after his father, Bob Jordan, received the annual award, now in its 33rd...
by Kirkland | Jan 21, 2021 | Machinery Row
Lucidyne Transverse Scanner Microtec’s recent acquisition of Lucidyne creates a significant global lumber scanning portfolio. Microtec has demonstrated success across a range of scanning solutions and Lucidyne’s GradeScan is a gold standard for lineal scanning....
by Kirkland | Jan 21, 2021 | News
Housing Starts Finish Year With A Bang U.S. housing starts, thanks to the single-family market, finished 2020 on a surge, with December housing starts at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.669 million, a 5.8% increase over November and 5.2% increase compared to December...
by Kirkland | Jan 20, 2021 | News
Major Mill Announcements Come From Across The U.S. Biewer Plans For Second SYP Greenfield Mill: Biewer Lumber is constructing its second greenfield southern yellow pine sawmill in Mississippi, this one in Winona, about 100 miles north of its first one in Newton, and...
by Kirkland | Jan 20, 2021 | News
Familiar Face Behind Peak Renewables Peak Renewables reports it is building a 600,000 tonne per year industrial wood pellet facility in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. Fort Nelson First Nation will reportedly have equity in the plant, which is anticipated to be in...
by Kirkland | Dec 17, 2020 | News
U.S. Housing Starts Continue Upward U.S. housing starts (single-family and multi-family combined) were a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.547 million in November, an increase of 1.2% over October and 12.8% above November 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S....