by Kirkland | May 19, 2021 | Magazine
JUNE 2021 Cover: Softwood Lumbermen Are Feeling No Pain In April 2020, as the pandemic temporarily shut down everything in the United States, including the building products industry, U.S. softwood lumbermen were feeling down in the dumps. About two-thirds of them...
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...
