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July/August 2020

JULY/AUGUST 2020 Cover: Freres Is Beaming Over New Carriage LYONS, Oregon – Recent innovations at family-owned Freres Lumber Co. not only solidify the company’s position as a key West Coast veneer and plywood panel supplier, but also as a pioneer in the growing mass...

U.S. Housing Starts Show Big Increase

U.S. Housing Starts Show Big Increase U.S. housing starts in June increased more than 17% over May to an annual rate of 1.186 million, with both single family housing starts (831,000) and multi-family housing starts (350,000) showing big increases, according to the...

Forbes Is Sole Owner Of Brunette

Forbes Is Sole Owner Of Brunette  Brunette Machinery Co. Inc. announced that Kirk Forbes has concluded the purchase of shares from his business partners and is now the sole owner of Brunette, which is celebrating more than 75 years in supplying the wood products...

BID Continues Digital Growth

BID Continues Digital Growth The BID Group of Companies has expanded upon its use of PTC’s products to include Vuforia Augmented Reality (AR) offerings, in particular Vuforia Chalk remote experience software. Prior to leveraging Vuforia Chalk, BID deployed PTC’s...

Next Xylexpo To Be Held In 2022

Next Xylexpo To Be Held In 2022  The Board of Cepra-Centro promozionale Acimall, organizers of Xylexpo, speaking through its president Lorenzo Primultini, officially canceled the 2020 show on July 6, 2020. Initially scheduled for late May in Milan, Italy, Xylexpo was...

TP&EE Announces Cancellation

TP&EE Announces Cancellation Organizers of the Timber Processing & Energy Expo announced the cancellation of the event, which was scheduled for September 30 to October 2 at the Portland Exposition Center in Portland, Ore. “Oregon in particular has been slow to...