California’s timber industry groups say they scored a big win with the passage by the California Assembly of AB 1492

A bill for California’s timber industry eliminates regulatory fees on California forest products companies, allowing extra time to harvest timber and preventing excessive civil liability for wildfires.

Swiss wood products scientists use a fungus to transform Norway spruce and maplewood into wood good enough to replicate a Stradivarius violin, in research based on hot to stop fungi from rotting wood.

Researchers at the Agriicultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Gorgan say they have fabricated a higher quality of oriented strand board (OSB) out of low-grade paulownia wood by incorporating nanoclay and nanosilica in the recipe.

There are situations where testing of historic windows makes sense. We have found testing to be very valuable when you have a situation where the entire window system must be replicated.

Furniture orders climbed 3% in June over June 2011 but only 47% of respondents in Smith Leonard's monthly survey reported increased orders. In comparison, 69% of respondents said they experienced new order increases in May.

North American composite panel shipments in August totalled 504 MMSF, up 9.4% from 460 MMSF (3/4” basis) for the same period a year ago, according to the Composite Panel Association's (CPA) monthly Industry Snapshot.

Hampton Affiliates said it will rebuild the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake, BC, destroyed in a deadly explosion and fire, contingent on government guarantees for sufficient timber supply and negotiating "an acceptable agreement" with the United Steel Workers union.

Hampton Affiliates and the Burns Lake Native Development Corporation (BLNDC) announced today that they intend to rebuild the Babine sawmill that was destroyed by fire on January 20th, 2012.