News & Updates
Smartlam Installs Ledinek Glulam Line
Slovenia-based Ledinek has embarked on a significant expansion across the Atlantic by supplying a new glulam production line to SmartLam North America for SmartLam’s mass timber manufacturing operation in Dothan, Ala.
Element5 Chooses Pinomatic For Glulam Expansion
Element5 Chooses Pinomatic For Glulam ExpansionPinomatic is delivering a glulam line and sorting line infeed to the Element5 mass timber facility in St. Thomas, Ontario. The project delivery in...
Weyerhaeuser Names Brian Chaney To Lead Wood Products
Weyerhaeuser Co. has appointed Brian Chaney as senior vice president of Wood Products. Chaney recently served as vice president of Engineered Wood Products and Innovation for the company, and will take over for Keith O’Rear, who retired June 3 and will serve as a strategic advisor to the company through the end of 2024.
German Firm Debuts Wooden Turbine Blades
German Firm Debuts Wooden Turbine Blades Wind turbine blade manufacturer Voodin Blade Technology GmbH recently announced the first prototype installation of its 19.3 m wooden wind turbine blades on...
PELICE 2024 Covers The Bases & Then Some: Martin, Gray, Dieffenbacher Start It Off
PELICE 2024 Covers The Bases & Then Some: Martin, Gray, Dieffenbacher Start It OffThe ninth Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) set a participation record...
Hood Industries Goes With Con-Vey For Plywood Finishing Line
Hood Industries Goes With Con-Vey For Plywood Finishing Line Con-Vey, a leading provider of innovative automation and material handling solutions, has announced its collaboration with Hood...
China’s BFP Orders Fine OSB Plant
Chinese wood-based panel producer, A Beautiful Family Plate Making Co. Ltd. (BFP), has contracted with Dieffenbacher for a complete Fine OSB plant in Guangxi, China. Installation of BFP’s new plant is scheduled for the second quarter of 2023. The first board is expected to be produced in fall 2023…
Plywood Operations Order Lay-Up Lines
Due to the industry-wide challenge to get labor, automation plays a big part in profitable production. This is one of the reasons Richmond Plywood Corp. Ltd. (Richply), Canada, and Tolko Industries…
Dieffenbacher Collaborates On EU-funded EcoReFibre Project
Dieffenbacher Collaborates On EU-funded EcoReFibre Project Dieffenbacher and 19 organizations from seven countries have joined forces in the EcoReFibre (Ecological solutions for recovery of...
Egger Gets Going On P’Board Plant
Egger Gets Going On P’Board Plant Egger reported in mid-November it has started construction on its first U.S. manufacturing plant. Construction of the particleboard plant in Lexington, NC...
Arauco-Grayling Is Paving The Way
As of the end of August, Arauco reported 1,526,355 total project hours completed since April 2017 at its particleboard plant under construction in Grayling, Mich. The company also reported the use...
Katerra Plans Components Factory
Katerra Plans Components FactoryKaterra, a technology company that claims it is redefining the construction industry, announced plans to open a new advanced manufacturing factory in Tracy,...
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