Industry News
New Life For Texas Pellets
Estonia-based Graanul Invest affiliate Woodville Pellets, LLC submitted the winning bid in an auction conducted on May 9 for the assets of Texas Pellets, Inc. and German Pellets Texas, LLC (Texas Pellets). The assets include Texas Pellets’…
Enviva Receives More Contracts
The world’s larger producer of wood pellets, U.S.-based Enviva, reports it executed a new, firm five-year take-or-pay off-take contract to service growing demand for wood pellets in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Deliveries under the contract are expected to commence...
Team Safe Announces New Training Program
Team Safe Trucking, a provider of training solutions for the forestry transportation, has released the name of its new training program for drivers wanting to obtain a CDL specifically to drive forest products following the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
CPTC Teaching Loggers Of Tomorrow
The wood basket of the world, suffering a shortage in experienced loggers has resulted in Coastal Pines Technical College in Waycross, Ga., creating a curriculum designed to teach high schoolers the basics of forestry and timber harvesting. CPTC forestry instructor...
Doosan Holds Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
Doosan executives and equipment dealers from the region were present to celebrate the opening of the second Doosan parts distribution center in North America. The event included a guided tour of the new 57,000 sq. ft. parts distribution center – which became...
Texas BMP Monitoring Shows Steady Improvement
A 28-year program to monitor logging Best Management Practices (BMPs) implementation on east Texas timber harvest sites shows overall 93.8% BMP implementation in 2018 across all land ownerships. That’s a solid improvement in the last 20 years—the implementation rate...
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