Woodworking Network

$11 million southern yellow pine operation coming to Virginia, 44 new jobs

RUTHER GLEN, Va. - North Carolina-based lumber company Ashton Lewis will invest $11 million to build a southern yellow pine operation in Virginia. Ashton will upgrade the former W.T. Jones & Sons pine ...
Woodworking Network

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VANCOUVER, BC — Interfor Corp. said weak demand for southern yellow pine lumber is forcing it to reduce production by 20 percent at its southern U.S. mills.Work hours at the mills were reduced by five ...
Daily Journal

THE WOOD GAP — Lumber prices set all-time high, while trees are stuck in the past

Southern yellow pine lumber prices went on an eight-week tear starting in mid-July, while tree farms stayed stuck in the Mississippi clay. Sawmills have realized all-time high prices for lumber and ...
Wall Street Journal

Made-in-U.S.A. Lumber Futures Are Coming to Wall Street

Lumber producers have migrated from Canada to the U.S. South. Now lumber-futures trading is heading to the Southern pineries as well. The exchange operator CME Group said it would launch trading in ...
Sentinel & Enterprise

At the Woodery in Lunenburg, owner Steve Turner weighs next life move

LUNENBURG — Steve Turner loaded planks of Southern yellow pine wood into a trailer owned by cabinet maker Chris Kovacs on Thursday. Kovacs called six lumber dealers before ringing The Woodery, where ...