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...
Jun 11, 2018 | News, News/PR
Digital technology might not be the first thing you think of when thinking about the logging and timber industry, but one Savannah entrepreneur hopes to changes that. “We’re hoping to be a disrupter of the business,” said Dean McCraw of Phloem, a mobile app for the...
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....
Mar 12, 2018 | News, News/PR
Despite Hurricane Harvey’s creation of hundreds of construction projects, lumber companies in East Texas are still hurting. “I would’ve called you a liar if you would have told me that when Hurricane Harvey hit that it wouldn’t have just blown...
Dec 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
Imagine a lumberjack, an ax slung across one shoulder and a chain saw in the other hand. While the image is endearing, that was your father’s or grandfather’s logger. “We don’t even have a chain-saw on any of our crews. Not an ax either. The...