Sep 14, 2018 | News, News/PR
The newest timber harvesting and production equipment will be booming at the biennial Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show in Starkville on September 21-22. The show, which is the longest-running, live, in-woods demonstration of forestry equipment in the nation, is in...
Sep 10, 2018 | News, News/PR
Construction on a $110 million new Rex Lumber sawmill and dimensional lumber production plant in greater Troy, Ala., started on July 17, 2018, and is expected to be completed in the spring of 2019 with operations beginning in June. The 80-acre earthwork and site...
Jul 6, 2018 | News, News/PR
John Wigginton, machete at the ready, chopped his way through the thick understory of privet, sumac and blackberry brambles one recent June afternoon. Logging trucks, bunchers and skidders rumbled in the distance. It had rained heavily; mosquitoes and deer flies...
Jun 8, 2018 | News, News/PR
A major Wiregrass project is getting a $500,000 grant to speed it along. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey recently announced a community development block grant to assist Rex Lumber Co. in constructing a $110 million sawmill operation in Pike County that will employ 110 people....
May 4, 2018 | News, News/PR
The first and biggest cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing plant in the eastern U.S. is nearly fully operational, with 25 employees currently working a portion of the plant. Florida-based International Beams (IB), a manufacturer of pre-fabricated i-joist beams,...