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Madison’s Lumber Reporter sample issue *new*
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Simpson Lumber Mill Closes
Some 270 jobs at Simpson’s mills in Shelton and Dayton, WA, are going away by June 30 as Simpson sells those operations to a Northern California firm, Sierra Pacific Industries, says The Olympian Friday. The Shelton mill could be replaced by a new state-of-the-art mill employing about 150 to 200 people in 2017. Get YOUR…
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US Forest Products Industry: 2015 USDA Report
This week the US Department of Agriculture, via the US Forest Service Southern Research Station, released it’s report, “The Global Position of the US Forest Products Industry”. The Key Findings for the solid wood manufacturing sector in this latest US Forest Service report are: • the US share of global wood products output peaked in 1998…
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Atikokan Planer Mill Running
The first board was dressed, trimmed, and graded on April 4 in the planing mill at the new Resolute Forest Products, Sapawe sawmill in Atikokan, ON, according to Atikokan Progress and Printing Wednesday. Rough lumber is being delivered each day from the Ignace, ON, sawmill. Two dry kilns are now operating at the Sapawe site…
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Sawmill Fires
The cause of a stubborn fire recently at the Flavelle Sawmill in Port Moody, BC, that took crews more than 12 hours to douse may never be known, Port Moody fire chief Remo Faedo said to the Tri-Cities Now. He noted damage to the planer mill was so severe it’s unsafe to do a complete…
