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Georgia-Pacific Announces New $150 Million Georgia Sawmill
Georgia-Pacific announced plans on Tuesday to build a new regional lumber production facility at the Albany-Dougherty Industrial Park in east Albany on U.S. Highway 82. Construction on the $150 million, 320,000-square-foot, technologically advanced plant is targeted...
Arkansas Forestry Commission To Distribute Wildfire Kits To Fire Departments
Arkansas fire departments will be better equipped to fight wildfires in the coming months as the state enters what is traditionally the summer wildfire season. The Arkansas Forestry Commission announced Wednesday it had received $200,000 from the U.S. Forest Service...
Attis Industries Taps Georgia’s Jordan Forest Products For Biomass
From: Southern Loggin’ Times Editors Attis Industries, a technology holding company, has executed a letter of intent with Jordan Forest Products, LLC for Jordan to provide raw material feedstock and procurement services for a biorefinery in Barnesville, Georgia,...
Virginia’s Forest Products Economy Continues To Grow
Virginia set a new record for the volume of timber harvested with slight increases in both hardwood and softwood volume compared to the previous year, according to the Virginia Department of Forestry’s analysis of the Virginia Forest Products Tax receipts from Fiscal...
Canadian Lumber Tariffs Having Both Positive And Negative Impacts In South
Tariffs are a hot topic right now. But the tariff on Canadian lumber being sold into the U.S. is slightly different than some of the others you've been hearing about. This tariff took effect last year. Mississippi's sawmills are busier than they were this time last...
Virginia Company Expanding Chipping Operations, Adding Sawmill
Mountain Top Timber Products will invest $3.76 million in a long-abandoned industrial building in Dungannon to expand the company’s woodchipping operations and add a sawmill and dry kiln capacity. Over the next three years, the company expects to create 50 jobs and...
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