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Roseburg Closes Weed Veneer Mill

Roseburg Closes Weed Veneer Mill Roseburg Forest Products has recently announced the closure of its veneer plant in Weed, Calif. The company is focusing on veneer production at its Oregon mills, where it has installed new veneer manufacturing equipment. The company...

Air Burners To Be Acquired By Private Equity 

AirBurners To Be Acquired By Private Equity  Courizon Partners, a private equity firm specializing in middle market industrial and consumer businesses, announced its acquisition of AirBurners, the global leader in air curtain burner systems used for disposal of wood...

Forest Service Begins Much Needed Reorganization

Forest Service Begins Much Needed Reorganization USFS leaders announced in October that it had consolidated regional managers to four Regional Foresters with centralized expertise hubs, housed in its nine existing regions, creating broader jurisdictions with less...

Campbell Global Acquires Oregon Timberland From Weyerhaeuser 

Campbell Global Acquires Oregon Timberland From Weyerhaeuser The Timber Investment Management Organization (TIMO), Campbell Global LLC, announced in November it acquired 28,200 acres of timberland from Weyerhaeuser in Oregon’s North Coast and Willamette Valley....

Tigercat Transitioning To TCi Branding For Attachments

Tigercat Transitioning To TCi Branding For Attachments As part of its evolving international brand strategy, Tigercat Industries will rebrand its entire line of harvesting heads, felling heads, grapples, mulching heads, and other attachments under the TCi brand. This...

Sierra Pacific Breaks Ground In Eugene 

Sierra Pacific Breaks Ground In Eugene  Sierra Pacific Industries broke ground on its new state-of-the-art sawmill in Eugene, Ore. in early November. SPI’s Oregon crews joined in celebrating the placement of the first column—the start of what will soon be a nearly...

Upgraded From Tigercat: 850B Processor

Upgraded From Tigercat: 850B Processor The 850 processor, the Tigercat branded purpose-built alternative to excavator conversions, has been upgraded for improved performance. The new 850B retains all of the advantages over converted excavators used in roadside...

Maine Logger Training Program Graduates Recognized

Maine Logger Training Program Graduates Recognized Upon completing an extensive 20-week curriculum, graduates of the Mechanized Logging Operations and Forest Trucking Program (MLOFT) were recently recognized at the Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC) Alfond...

Logger Co-op Launches Wisconsin Chip Mill

Logger Co-op Launches Wisconsin Chip Mill A precedent-setting milestone was marked in Tilleda, Wis., with the launch of the United States’ first chip mill owned and operated by a logger cooperative—a major step forward for collaboration and sustainability in the...

West Fraser To Idle Mills In Georgia, British Columbia

West Fraser To Idle Mills In Georgia, British Columbia West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. announced in early November it will permanently close both its Augusta, Ga. and 100 Mile House, British Columbia sawmills by the end of 2025 following an orderly wind-down. The decision...
New From Waratah: Forestry Grapple Line

New From Waratah: Forestry Grapple Line

Mar 20, 2025 |

New From Waratah: Forestry Grapple LineWaratah Forestry Equipment has introduced its new line of forestry grapples, designed to deliver performance and reliability across a wide range of forestry...

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New Hampshire Carbon Credit Impact Report

Mar 19, 2025 |

New Hampshire Carbon Credit Impact ReportA report on the impact of carbon credit programs in New Hampshire is due later this year, part of legislation the state passed in 2024 to gauge the effect of...

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Idaho Group Helps Workers

Mar 18, 2025 |

Idaho Group Helps WorkersOfficials with Associated Logging Contractors-Idaho are moving ahead with a program to establish a worker development and recruitment program and working with related forest...

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Upgrade From John Deere: Knuckleboom Loaders

Upgrade From John Deere: Knuckleboom Loaders

Aug 9, 2022 |

John Deere introduces the latest updates to its knuckleboom loader lineup, including visibility enhancements. Aiming to increase operator safety and accuracy, the 2022 models of 437E and 337E knuckleboom loaders feature a newly designed front window by removing the external mesh guard and replacing it with a clear, polycarbonate window for uninterrupted view…

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New Ponsse Products

New Ponsse Products

Jul 18, 2022 |

Ponsse has launched a series of new products to improve productivity in sustainable harvesting, including the Ponsse Scorpion Giant harvester and the Ponsse Mammoth forwarder. The Scorpion Giant harvester adds to the Scorpion product range, which was completely upgraded in 2021. It was developed to have more tractive effort, which helps the harvester to be agile even in challenging conditions, including snow, steep slopes and soft terrain. The Scorpion…

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Komatsu To Acquire Swedish Silviculture Attachment Manufacturer

Komatsu To Acquire Swedish Silviculture Attachment Manufacturer

Jul 15, 2022 |

Through Komatsu Forest AB, a wholly owned subsidiary in Sweden, Komatsu Ltd. is going to acquire Bracke Forest AB, headquartered in Bräcke, Sweden, which develops, manufactures, and sells application-specific attachments for silviculture. Tree planting is expected to expand worldwide for lumber production and environmental concerns, such as the promotion of carbon neutrality. At the same time, the need for mechanization is growing, especially because tree planting is labor-intensive work, with an increase in planting in remote areas, and a decrease in the workforce…

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