Feb 23, 2018 | News, News/PR
Georgia-Pacific announced it will build a 340,000-square-foot softwood lumber mill in Warrenton, Georgia. Construction of the $135 million technologically advanced facility is scheduled to begin this summer, with an anticipated startup in spring 2019. The new lumber...
Dec 11, 2017 | News, News/PR
Rex Lumber, headquartered in Graceville, Florida is expanding with a greenfield sawmill in the Southeast. Rex currently operates three sawmills, two in the Florida Panhandle and one in Mississippi, producing a total of 575 million board feet annually. This will be Rex...
Jul 7, 2017 | News, News/PR
German-based Klausner Holding USA announced five years ago it planned to build a lumber mill in Orangeburg County. Company officials at the time anticipated breaking ground in 2014. The summer of 2017 has arrived and construction has not begun. Orangeburg County...
Feb 10, 2017 | News, News/PR
Conifex Timber Inc., a forestry and sawmilling company, recently announced it is modernizing and will re-start a state-of-the-art sawmill complex in El Dorado, Arkansas. The site was formerly owned by Georgia-Pacific. Conifex will create approximately 120 jobs and...
Jul 20, 2016 | News, News/PR
The United Kingdom (U.K.) was one of the top markets for exported Virginia hardwood in 2015, and four Virginia lumber companies recently furthered that trend by striking sales agreements with James Latham PLC, one of the U.K.’s oldest and largest hardwood lumber...