Nov 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Westervelt Co. on Tuesday announced the construction of a new lumber mill in Thomasville that will create 125 jobs. The Tuscaloosa-based company said in a news release that the Thomasville facility will produce around 250 million board feet of Southern yellow pine...
Nov 27, 2018 | News, News/PR
Business is good for Biewer Lumber. So good the company announced it will expand their sawmill in Newton and ramp up production by 100-million board feet per year. The expansion means forty-five new jobs will be added to operations at the facility. The development...
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...
Aug 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
Despite the digital revolution taking reading off the pages of paperbacks and onto the screens of tablet, the forestry industry continues to grow in Louisiana, according to a report that says in 2015 it accounted for $13 billion in economic output, and one billion in...
Aug 1, 2018 | News, News/PR
Georgia-Pacific announced plans on Tuesday to build a new regional lumber production facility at the Albany-Dougherty Industrial Park in east Albany on U.S. Highway 82. Construction on the $150 million, 320,000-square-foot, technologically advanced plant is targeted...