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Woodworker’s Guide To Sawmills

In 2007 I got a call that changed my whole perspective on lumber. I’d been designing and building furniture for five years, ...
Woodworking Network

Shuttered sawmills getting funding help to reopen

Montana state legislators introduced legislation that it believes will help provide low-interest loans to reopen shuttered sawmills. One such mill, Pyramid Lumber, announced in March 2024, that it ...
Wall Street Journal

Sawmills Are Cutting Back to Buoy Lumber Prices

A pattern is emerging in lumber markets: First, a big sawmill owner announces production curtailments. The next day, lumber futures quickly rise by the most allowed by exchange rules. It played out ...
Alaska Public Media

New lumber-grading bill could open markets for Alaska sawmills

Sawdust and wood scraps at Mud Bay Lumber Company in Haines. Haines is one of dozens of communities around Alaska that have looked into biomass technology. (Photo provided by Clay Good/REAP) A ...
NBC Montana

Lawmakers create low-interest loan program for reopening shuttered sawmills

MISSOULA, Mont. — About a year after the most recent announcement of a Montana sawmill closure, state lawmakers passed a bill creating a low-interest loan program for companies reopening a mill in an ...