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March 2020

MARCH 2020 Cover: Edwards Wood Products Gets New Sawmill Going Edwards Wood Products (EWP), founded in 1969 by Carroll Edwards, began as a small pallet manufacturer in an abandoned chicken house in Marshville, North Carolina. Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior...

Wagner Meters Hires Specialist

Wagner Meters Hires Specialist Wagner Meters announces the addition of Jason Wright to the sales team as a Business Development Specialist for New Products. Starting in 1986 with a small sundry distributor in Medford, Ore., Wright moved on to ascend through positions...

Washington State Hit With Three Lawsuits

Washington State Hit With Three Lawsuits Following the late 2019 release of a plan to conserve marbled murrelet habitat on state-owned timberland, the Washington Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) has been hit by three lawsuits, two claiming that DNR is abandoning its...

R-Y Timber Juggles Sawmill Production

R-Y Timber Juggles Sawmill Production Officials with RY Timber in Townsend, Mont. announced the company would indefinitely close its Townsend sawmill, and in turn expand operations at its Livingston, Mont. facility. The closure is expected to begin in April and affect...

U.S. Commerce Looks At Moldings, Millwork

U.S. Commerce Looks At Moldings, Millwork U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the initiation of new investigations to determine whether wood moldings and millwork products from Brazil and China are being dumped in the United States, and to determine if...
Family Matters To Fritz Mason

Family Matters To Fritz Mason

Family Matters To Fritz Mason Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Associate Editor, Timber Processing January/February 2020 It’s time for the 32nd annual announcement of the Timber Processing Person of the Year—a time that always excites me. I am a bit of a person of...