News in lumber

Fire fighters from the Williams Lake Fire Department (WLFD) were called the scene of a structure fire early on Monday morning in a hopper (chip bin) that feeds the woodchipper at the West Fraser mill on Soda Creek Road in Williams Lake. B.C.

United States Bankruptcy Judge Karen B. Owens, in Delaware, has approved a revised settlement between Halifax County North Carolina and Klausner II, a proposed sawmill in the area around Enfield North Carolina, which started construction in 2014, but the project was never completed.

Tolko Industries (U.S.) Ltd has just announced a 50 – 50 joint venture partnership with Jasper Lumber Company.

Maibec Inc. and Waldun Forest Ltd., announced on Thursday (11/12) that they had entered into a joint agreement for Maibec’s acquisition of Stave Lake Cedar Mill prefinishing facility located in Dewdney B.C. as well as the assets and brand rights for Stave Lake Cedar Shingles, value added Western Red Cedar and Yellow Cedar Shingles.

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice, Geoffrey Gomery, has ruled that the MacKenzie Sawmill Ltd. (MSL), whose Surrey B.C. mill was destroyed by a series of fire, the first on Nov. 12, 2010, the second on Jan. 25, 2011, and a third on Oct. 31, 2014, which halted production and ruined the mill, has not been “permanently discharged” from its obligations to provide lumber giant Interfor Corporation with wood chips.

As reported by Statistics Canada, Canadian lumber production increased 4.1% from July 2020 to August 2020. Year-over-year production was 1.3% above August 2019.

The USDA Forest Service researchers recently published FPL-RP-706, October 2020 entitled Cradle-to-Gate Life-Cycle Assessment of Redwood Lumber in the United States.

Hammond Lumber Company, a family-owned company founded in 1953, with headquarters in Belgrade Maine, has announced the acquisition of a smaller competitor, Tukey Brothers, Inc., a sawmill in North Belgrade.