by Kirkland | Jun 15, 2021 | Machinery Row
Homag Purchases Press Manufacturer Homag Group is acquiring majority interest in the Danish mechanical engineering company, Kallesoe Machinery A/S, as Homag takes another step toward establishing itself as a leading technology partner for sustainable construction with...
by Kirkland | Jun 15, 2021 | News
Interfor Purchases Four Sawmills From GP Interfor is acquiring four sawmill operations in Bay Springs, Miss.; Fayette, Ala.; DeQuincy, La.; and Philomath, Ore. from Georgia-Pacific for $375 million. Interfor says these sawmill operations are highly complementary to...
by Kirkland | Jun 8, 2021 | News
Canfor Plans New Sawmill In Louisiana Canfor Corp. announced it will invest $160 million to build a new sawmill near DeRidder, La. The facility will have an annual production capacity of 250MMBF on a two-shift basis and will employ 130. Startup is expected to commence...
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...
