Imports Overtake Forest Products Exports
Survey Reveals Wide Impact of Globalization and Companies Responding, Adapting (Editor’s Note: The following article first appeared in Center Focus, the newsletter of the Virginia Tech Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management, and it is published here with...Safety Alert: Loader Boom Descends, Hits Crewman During Refueling
Safety Alert BACKGROUND A logging crew member was helping to refuel a knuckleboom loader at a log deck on a winter day in the Southeast. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS The crew member was in his mid-50s and had been, at one time, part owner of his own logging business. He...Johnson Lumber Benefits from Mill Upgrades
Specialist in Eastern White Pine Lumber, Log Homes Has Strong Ties to HMC Corporation CARTHAGE, New York — Eastern white pine lumber and timber products are the mainstay of Johnson Lumber. Eighty percent of the company’s production is kiln-dried and surfaced lumber...Big G Wood Products Plans to Grow
Timberland Machinery Big Jake Scragg Saw Is Workhorse in Arkansas Scragg Mill WALDRON, ARKANSAS — George Gustafson dreamed of owning and operating a scragg mill, but he was involved in other entrepreneurial endeavors for a good 25 years. “I was involved in the...