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January/February 2021

JANUARY/FEBRUARY  2021 Cover: 2021 Person Of The Year Robert B. Jordan, IV, president and CEO of the Jordan Family of 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 year....

Lucidyne Transverse Scanner

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....

Housing Starts Finish Year With A Bang

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...

Major Mill Announcements Come From Across The U.S.

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...

Familiar Face Behind Peak Renewables

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...