The manufacturer takes a traditional FSC-Certified softwood and uses natural chemicals and heat to modify its cellular structure and stability.

Huron Capital, a lower-middle-market private equity firm, announced it has made an additional equity investment in Northwest Pallet Holdings, LLC.

URANIA, La. -- LaSalle Lumber Co. has dedicated its new $115 million sawmill in central Louisiana. Earlier, LaSalle shipped the first truckload of lumber from its new sawmill in Urania. The mill began start-up operations in December and made it first shipment in March. “We’re very happy with how the start-up process has gone to date,” LaSalle Lumber plant manager Nick Landi said earlier when the first shipment was made.

Q. We made some built-in furniture last spring with Douglas-fir. Now, about six months later, the wood is dripping sap on the carpet. We cleaned the sap off the wood surfaces, but now sap is oozing again. What happened and what can we do?

Q. We have trouble controlling the wood’s moisture content, which means relative humidity, in our storage building and in our shop. Can you talk about how heating air lowers the humidity?

A student’s fortuitous discovery at the University of Maine launched the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute’s (FBRI) pilot plant, which turns wood biomass into clean crude oil with heat and pressure rather than with the use of chemicals.

With lumber prices continuing to decline faster than log prices, profit margins have continued to slide in early 2019.

In 2018, the Russian government continued to implement policy to reduce the exports of raw wood and stimulate internal consumption of timber industry products.

A partnership between Oregon State University’s Colleges of Forestry and Engineering and University of Oregon’s College of Design, TDI is a research collaborative focused on the advancement of structural wood products and mass timber design.

Q. We have some jatoba pieces and they seem to have a lot of splits developing after we finish the pieces...like a month later when installed in a home. We checked the MC on the returned pieces and it checked ok. Any ideas?