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UGA Forestry School Sponsoring Logging Cost Analysis Course
The University Of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources will sponsor a logging cost analysis course to be held June 12-13 at the Cunningham Research Station, 200 Cunningham Road, in Kinston, NC. The course will be presented by Dr. Joe Conrad, an...
Canfor Investing $40 Million To Upgrade South Carolina Sawmill
Canfor Southern Pine, a leading integrated forest products company, will invest $40 million to upgrade its existing sawmill in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. A leading manufacturer of high-quality Southern yellow pine lumber, Canfor Southern Pine operates 14...
New $100 Million Lumber Facility Set To Open In Texas
Angelina Forest Products, LLC announced plans to build a new softwood lumber production plant in Lufkin, Texas. The company purchased the former General Electric Buck Creek site and will begin construction of a $100 million state-of-the-art sawmill…
Alabama CLT Plant Is Nearly Operational
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,...
Beck Group, Forest2Market Announce Sawmill TQ Service For Southern Sawmills
The Beck Group (Beck) and Forest2Market, Inc. recently announced a partnership to launch Sawmill TQ (Top Quartile), a new service for gathering and delivering Southern Yellow Pine sawmill benchmark data to industry members. The partnership combines Beck’s sawmill...
Mississippi Forestry Commission Sends Team To Fight Oklahoma Wildfires
A team of five brave men with the Mississippi Forestry Commission is headed to Oklahoma to help battle a fire that's consumed over 570 square miles of land. "It would be, you know, Rankin County on fire. Not just 100 acres on fire, but the whole county," said...
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