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RIPLEY, Mississippi – Several months of pray­er and careful consideration weigh­ed into Brian Hickox’s decision to make the switch from conventional logging to Ponsse CTL machinery in October 2023. After 30 years as owner of HX2 Logging Inc., Hickox, 52, could just about operate rubber-tire cutters and skidders blind and harvest a tract of plantation pines seven ways to Sunday, but by late last year, he knew it was time to make a change and try something new.

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Lucky Branch Tract Finds Some Luck

Lucky Branch Tract Finds Some Luck

The Lucky Branch tract, an 80-acre parcel of bottomland hardwood forest situated next to the Little River and Uwharrie National Forest in Montgomery County, North Carolina, has been conserved thanks in part to a grant provided by the Enviva Forest…

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Huber Takes Another Swing

Huber Takes Another Swing

Huber Engineered Woods LLC (HEW), a subsidiary of J.M. Huber Corp., plans to build a new oriented strandboard (OSB) facility in Shuqualak, Noxubee County, Miss. The plant will increase the company’s production of its ZIP System and AdvanTech structural panels, while providing more than 150 direct new jobs…

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Kronospan Plans Alabama Operation

Kronospan Plans Alabama Operation

Kronospan announced it will begin construction of a new oriented strandboard (OSB) manufacturing plant on its 460 acre site in Oxford, Ala. Employing 125 , the new facility will have a footprint comprised of 44 acres of new development, including…

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