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Umpqua Valley Lumber Association Gathers For Annual Event

Umpqua Valley Lumber Association Gathers For Annual Event The Seven Feathers Casino and Resort, located in Canyonville, OR, was the host site for the multi-day Umpqua Valley Lumber Association (UVLA) annual banquet and golf tournament. The event attracted approximately 270 guests. UVLA members form a coalition of long-time timber and lumber operators located in the […]

West Coast Business Trends

West Coast Business Trends West Coast Struggles To Prepare For Unpredictable Trade Times By Zach Miller At the time of this writing Canadian manufacturers are on the precipice of paying a combined countervailing (CVD) and anti-dumping duty of 35.19 percent, which is having ripple effects across the North American marketplace. Whether you’re manufacturing and shipping […]

NAWLA And Hard Rock/Biloxi Team Up for Regional Meeting

NAWLA And Hard Rock/Biloxi Team Up for Regional Meeting Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Biloxi, MS, was the site recently of the Southeast Regional Meeting of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA). Kyle Little, NAWLA Chair, served as guest speaker and addressed the topic of 2025 North American Lumber Supply and Demand Forecast. […]

Southeast Business Trends

Southeast Business Trends The Southeast Focuses On Yellow Pine And Tariff Shifts By Lara StearsmanAssociate Editor At the time of this writing, the Southeast region sees a slow-moving market but a more positive expectation for the upcoming year. A lumber company representative out of Alabama said the market is “slow” and was “just the same” […]

Retail Review

Retail Review Bliffert Lumber Expands Into Green Bay Bliffert Lumber, the 2024 ProDealer of the Year, has completed a merger with  Jauquet Lumber Co Inc., a family-owned business based in Green Bay, WI. Founded in 1905, Jauquet Lumber has served Northeast Wisconsin for 120 years. The company is owned and operated by third-generation brothers Jim […]

In Memoriam

In Memoriam Lionel Joseph Landry Passes Away At 85 Lionel Joseph Landry Lionel Joseph Landry passed away peacefully on July 15, 2025, at 85 years of age at Anderson Memory Care in Slidell, LA. Born on February 3, 1940, in New Orleans, LA, he attended Sacred Heart High School, where he met the love of […]

Industry News

Industry News New Machinery Installed At Thompson River Lumber Thompson River Lumber Co. in Thompson Falls, MT, recently installed a Weinig moulder at their production facility. The moulder works with material up to eight inches wide and can process 330 feet a minute. With this moulder, the company will be producing multiple patterns. Packaging full […]

AWFS Fair Welcomes The World To Las Vegas

AWFS Fair Welcomes The World To Las Vegas The Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, recently served as the host site of the 2025 AWFS Fair. Thousands of attendees – both domestically and internationally – travel every two years to this must-attend event. Why? Because the AWFS Fair is marketed not only as […]

Who’s Who in Softwoods

Who’s Who in Softwoods Boiler And Welding Industry Veteran Manages Solid Fuel Sales Cliff Hurst Cliff Hurst is the solid fuel sales manager at Hurst Boiler & Welding Company, Inc. in Coolidge, GA. Products offered by the company include boilers and energy systems such as firetube, watertube, package, hybrid and solid fuel boilers in addition […]

SLB Programs Are Critical for the Lumber Industry’s Continuing Growth

SLB Programs Are Critical for the Lumber Industry’s Continuing Growth Broadstone Saratoga / Urbal Architecture / Axiom Engineering / Chad Case Photography. Courtesy of WoodWorks. The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) is an industry-funded initiative with a specific mandate: promoting softwood lumber to increase and diversify demand and increase market share. The SLB’s mandate is to […]