Sawmill Owner Builds Creative Creekside Guest Cabin
By Ryan Moore, Wood-Mizer Contributing Author The My Wood-Mizer Project Contest, a favorite tradition since 1985, gives Wood-Mizer sawmill owners an opportunity to showcase their dream projects milled and made with lumber from their sawmills. With more than...
New Brunswick Sawmill Specializes in Lumber Products Exported to Markets in the Middle East
PENOBSQUIS, New Brunswick — There are still business opportunities in the sawmill industry. Javed Mian is living proof that an entrepreneurial spirit and business savvy that uncovers needs in lumber markets can help someone carve out a successful niche in the...
Maine Softwood Producer Plans Three-Fold Expansion Project
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — Valutec Wood Dryers, a leading supplier of dry kilns to lumber producers in Europe and Asia, has established a beachhead in the North American market. The company, based in Sweden, recently signed an agreement to supply two dry kilns to...
Canfor Southern Pines Profiling Performance
A recent upgrade at a southern yellow pine mill in Alabama has had a major impact on the mill’s productivity with the addition of profiling incorporated into the mill’s curve sawing gang process. The mill was facing daily bottlenecks at the edger that resulted in...
Wyoming Lumber Mill Helps Revive Community, Forests
SARATOGA, Wyoming – Not everyone in their 60s wants to buy a failed business, try to revive it, and move half-way across the country in order to do it. Re-starting the largest production sawmill in Wyoming has been a labor of love for Gary Ervin. His initiative also...