Each month in FDMC Magazine we feature the 'Notable Nine Online', nine stories that were the most viewed and engaged with from WoodworkingNetwork.com over the past month. The following stories were chosen by our readers by what they were most interested in from September 12, 2024 - October 12, 2024.

#1 Months after acquisition, Besse Forest Products closing six mills (Posted October 7)

Eight months after being acquired by an equity firm, Besse Forest Products Group has officially closed six of its green lumber sawmills and veneer mills in Wisconsin and Michigan and the assets from these facilities are now up for sale. The Gladstone, Michigan, veneer mill pictured above is one of the facilities being sold.

#2 Cabinetworks Group closing Pennsylvania facility, hundreds laid off (Posted September 18)

Cabinetworks Group is closing its Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, assembly plant, laying off hundreds of employees. A letter from CEO Jeff Jackson cited a declining housing market as a reason to end the multi-family direct sales business. 

#3 Weyerhaeuser fined $48K after worker’s death (Posted September 23)

Weyerhaeuser received a $48,393 fine from the N.C. Department of Labor related to a death at the New Bern sawmill. Weyerhaeuser was cited with three “serious violations” after the death of Robert Christopher Wood, 37, who was servicing the hydraulic system of a forklift when a sudden loss of hydraulic pressure caused the carriage/forks to fall onto Wood, which resulted in his death.

#4 Georgia-Pacific modifies operations at two lumber facilities (Posted September 13)

Georgia-Pacific announced that it is modifying lumber operations at two lumber facilities in Camden, Texas, and Prosperity, South Carolina. Over the next couple of months, these sites will discontinue lumber production from logs while maintaining plywood core sawing operations. 

#5 Cabinetworks Group confirms closure, working with union (Posted September 20)

Cabinetworks Group confirmed that it is closing its Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, assembly plant, laying off hundreds of employees, as a result of declining multi-family direct sales business. 

#6 Timberlab revives Oregon sawmill for mass timber production (Posted September 13)

Timberlab Holdings, Inc. acquires a sawmill and planing mill in Philomath, Oregon. The mills will support Timberlab's cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glue-laminated timber (glulam) operations.

#7 Doman Building Materials acquires CM Tucker Lumber Companies (Posted October 1)

Doman Building Materials Group Ltd. has acquired South Carolina-based CM Tucker Lumber Companies, LLC. The company acquired the assets of Tucker Lumber for a base purchase price of approximately $255 million in cash.

#8 Michigan officials implement quarantine for balsam woolly adelgid (Posted September 18)

Effective September 16, 2024, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) enacted an interior quarantine for balsam woolly adelgid (BWA) in Missaukee County. With this quarantine, MDARD is aiming to slow the spread of the invasive pest while minimizing disruption to the state’s nursery and timber industries.

#9 Acme Tools' Daniel Kuhlman has died (Posted September 13)

Daniel Kuhlman, who served as Acme Tools’ president for more than fifty years, died on September 9 in Grand Forks, N.D. He joined his father, Acme Electric founder George Kuhlman, in 1962 and expanded the family-owned and operated company into tool sales that sparked the growth of the business over five decades as a premier retailer of tools and equipment in the upper Midwest.