by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 10, 2020 | News
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. is acquiring all of the outstanding common shares of Norbord, the world’s largest oriented strandboard producer, for $3.1 billion. Following closing, the combined company will operate as West Fraser. “Norbord’s OSB production is a perfect...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 7, 2020 | News
Safety specialist Jason Todhunter of the Montana Logging Assn. recently published an interesting safety note for loggers working in snowy conditions: When operating on public or public access lands in snowy tracts, loggers many times are hauling on the only road...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Nov 17, 2020 | News
In fall 2020 Indiana Conservation Officers arrested a man after he engaged in buying timber without a license from six adjoining landowners in Lawrence County during the summer of 2019. According to reports, he also failed to pay three of the landowners for logs he...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Nov 11, 2020 | News
New Saw Fuel From Aspen Aspen Fuels has recently launched in the U.S. market, bringing its premixed high-octane Aspen 2 (for 2-stroke engines) and Aspen 4 (4-stroke) gasoline to professionals. Aspen’s products are engineered alkylate-based fuels, which are one of the...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Oct 30, 2020 | News
The 16,000th Ponsse forest machine was completed at the end of September at Ponsse’s factory in Vieremä, Finland. The Ponsse Ergo harvester was delivered to Celulose Nipo-Brasileira S.A. (CENIBRA) for operation in eucalyptus plantations in Brazil to meet the needs of...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Oct 21, 2020 | News
Central Boiler began operating in 1984 and is the premier manufacturer of quality outdoor wood and wood pellet furnaces. One of its many industry-leading accomplishments was the production of the first EPA program qualified outdoor furnace in 2007. Now they add EPA...
