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The Southern Forest Products Association is proud to welcome SII Dry Kilns as an associate member! SII Dry Kilns is a family business with a solid reputation in the hardwood […]

Ronald Williams is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of Timber Products Inspection, Inc. (TP) after nearly 30 years, the company announced May 22. He will remain as the chairman […]

  Southern Pine Record Production; New Export Leader There have been two big developments in the past month I’m pretty excited to share, and both have to do with the […]

March 2023 Southern Pine exports were up 24.9% over February and up 20.4% over the same month in 2022. Softwood imports, meanwhile, also were up 14.9% over the month but […]

The Southern Forest Products Association is proud to welcome American Wood Technology as an associate member! American Wood Technology represents the full line of Moldrup (IWT) wood-treating equipment. They specialize […]

The Westervelt Company President and CEO Brian Luoma will retire at the end of 2023, the company announced April 27.  Luoma joined Westervelt in 2017, and his tenure has been marked […]

Storing lumber properly may sound easy, but it’s more than just placing a tarp over a pile of Southern Pine. Proper seasoning and storage provide optimal dimensional stability of lumber […]

There are three Southern Pine lumber grading methods for sorting Southern Pine dimension lumber and assigning design values: Visually Graded Lumber This is the oldest and most common of the […]

The Southern Forest Products Association is proud to welcome Gulf Atlantic Packaging Corp. (GAPCO) as an associate member! GAPCO is a global leader in packaging solutions. For more than 40 […]

Registration and housing reservations for the 37th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment EXPO, presented by the Southern Forest Products Association, are now open! The three-day biannual tradeshow, to be held […]