TAYLORSVILLE, MS, March 29, 2018 (WMC) –Members of Carpenters Local 2086 are on strike at Georgia Pacific’s facility in Taylorsville over scheduling issues, according to union representative Marcus McLaurin. The workers started striking at 11 ...
PRINCE GEORGE, BC, March 29, 2018 (CBC) –Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of grain, lumber and other products are sitting idle in northern B.C. due to a months-long backlog on CN rail lines, causing industry groups ...
JOHN DAY, OR, March 28, 2018 (East Oregonian) –A new $9.1 million torrefaction plant in John Day is expected to bring 13-17 jobs to rural Grant County, according to Matt Krumenauer, vice president for special ...
LITTLE ROCK, AR, March 28, 2018 (Magnolia Reporter) –Due to the expanded range of Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) infestation sites within Arkansas, the Arkansas Agriculture Department’s State Plant Board (ASPB) has approved a statewide quarantine ...
By Bob Flynn, Consultants love to talk about markets being at a “turning point” (read: “Hire us to explain why things are changing and what comes next”), but in the case of the international woodchip ...
FAIRBANKS, AK, March 28, 2018 (KTOO) –The University of Alaska is negotiating a timber sale on more than 13,000 acres of its land in the Haines Borough. The estimated volume of the 10-year deal is ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 28, 2018 (Associated Press (AP)) –Greenpeace is withdrawing from the main global group for certifying sustainable wood, saying the organization it helped found more than two decades ago is failing to protect ...
PORTLAND, OR, March 28, 2018 (RISI) –Pending home sales snapped back in much of the country in February, but weakening affordability and not enough inventory on the market restricted overall activity compared to a year ...
PORTLAND, OR, March 28, 2018 (RISI) –Mortgage applications increased 4.8% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending March 23, 2018. The ...
HELSINKI, Finland, March 27, 2018 (FOEX) –FOEX is expanding its price index portfolio with new benchmarks for Finnish sawn softwood timber exports. PIX Sawn Timber Pine FAS Finland and PIX Sawn Timber Spruce FAS Finland ...