Industry News

Hood Industries has announced plans to build a state-of-the-art plywood panel manufacturing facility in Beaumont in Perry County, Mississippi. The project represents a corporate investment of more than $200 million and will create 265 direct jobs….

Forest Pro, Inc., a logging equipment dealership in Virginia, is partnering with DEVELON, formerly Doosan, to begin offering heavy equipment at its three locations: Scottsville, Manquin and Keysville. All three locations will feature the full line…

Arkansas Act 711, previously SB 494, has passed in both legislative chambers and is on its way to the Governor’s desk to be signed into law. This pending new law compels the Director of State Highways and Transportation to request that the Congress…

Bandit Industries, Inc. celebrated the acquisition of a facility in Mount Pleasant with a ribbon cutting ceremony on April 5th. This facility, formerly owned by Burch Tank, is situated on twenty-four acres with 60,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing…

A plan to boost weight limits for trucks on Georgia state highways is proving a heavy lift against determined opposition. After the scope of the bill was cut down earlier in the House and still garnered barely enough votes to pass, ultimately, the…

Hunt Forest Products LLC has pledged $500,000 to support the new Forest Products Innovation Center on Louisiana Tech University’s South Campus at Ruston. The Forest Products Innovation Center is slated to become a hub for discovering new methods to…