A full-grown Southern pine beetle is still about half the length of a grain of rice, but state and federal forestry officials worry this tiny bug could have a monster impact this year on the state of Alabama’s $11 billion wood products industry reports Dennis Pillion AL.COM.( dpillion@al.com) “With Southern pine beetles, the Latin name (Dendroctonus frontalis) actually[…]
On Tuesday, March 7, leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate reintroduced the Timber Innovation Act, a bill to increase research and development of innovative forest products, which will ultimately help create or sustain markets for forest products for family woodland owners reports Matt Hestad The bill, which was originally introduced in 2016[…]
JoeScan, Inc., a leading manufacturer of 3-D laser scan heads for sawmills, released its newest scan head in its JS-25 X-Series, the JS-25 X6B late 2016. The JS-25 X6B is a high-performance, six-laser scanner, specifically designed for high-density, snapshot-scanning of logs on carriage headrigs. Each JS-25 X6B scan head can be mounted end-to-end to scan[…]
Rörvik Timber plans to shut its two sawmills at Boxholm and Myresjöfönster in Sweden. The company had tried unsuccessfully for a long time to find suitable owners for the two mills in south Sweden. It has started closure negotiations with the unions and expects the decision to take effect by the summer 2017, reports TTJ. […]
West Fraser announced that Larry Hughes will retire as Vice President, Finance and CFO at the end of March 2017. Chris Virostek will become Vice President, Finance and CFO upon Mr. Hughes’ retirement. Virostek is a Chartered Professional Accountant, CA and has held a number of senior financial roles at Masonite International Corporation since 2002,[…]
Almost 50% of the fiber feedstock for wood pellet plants in the US South was industry and forest residues in the 1Q17, up from 33% five years ago, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. Wood pellet manufacturers in both the US and Canada are increasingly diversifying their feedstock to reduce fiber costs and[…]
While BC forestry companies face a long-term decline in the annual allowable cut in the Interior, thanks to the mountain pine beetle infestation, BC companies on the coast have been exporting raw logs, mostly to China, in record volumes in recent years. According to a recent Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) report, one[…]