KJP Select Hardwoods is excited to offer Rough Cut Lumber Packs for purchase in its online store.

At this time of year, the historical trend would normally be for lumber prices to be rising. Usually by mid-April the building activity for housing is ramping up, and sales volumes of construction framing lumber are approaching their high for the year.

The CEO of a company that plans to ship wood from Africa to the United States and use a patent-pending CO-Tech system to dry the lumber in route has sold his sawmill and laminate wood flooring facilities, valued at $30 million, for $1. Caravelle International Group, a global ocean technology company, announced that the Company's CEO Dr. Guohua Zhang has sold Penxing Gabon SARL to Caravelle. 

A coalition of conservation coalitions includingKlamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, and the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council, filed a legal complaint challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Integrated Vegetation Management” (IVM) program.

Into the end of March markedly improved weather across the contin

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) announces the withdrawal of the remaining forest management certificates in Russia by the respective certification bodies. This is due to the decision by Assurance Services International (ASI) to terminate its FSC assurance activities in Russia.ASI’s decision will enter into force on May 1, 2023, and will be re-evaluated once the conditions allow for assurance again.

High pressure laminate (HPL) is a common choice for horizontal surfaces, including flooring, countertops and desktops due to its durability. It is also ideal for vertical surfaces in high-traffic areas.

Value engineering experiment shows impact of TFL, HPL, and veneer in same jobs.

The sawmill curtailments of recent months, especially those ongoing in the western part of North America, served to bring lumber prices up slightly. At this point, levels are still somewhat below cost-of-production in the important supply basket of British Columbia — which has been roughly estimated at approximately US$500 mfbm. The strategy of reducing production, carried out in a quite disciplined way, is mainly to prevent prices from falling even further.

Astara Capital Partners opened the Camden Timbers sawmill in February. The company expects the sawmill to produce more than 50 million board feet of timber and dimensional lumber through its sawmill, kiln, and planer operations.