GRAND RAPIDS — U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten on Friday announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Trent William Witteveen, 39, of Montague, ...

Synovus Financial is expanding its agriculture lending business with an eye toward the timber industry in its own backyard. The $53 billion-asset Columbus, Ga., company announced several hires ...

Founders Hall at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, the first mass timber building at Seattle campus of Univ. of Washington, was recently completed. The 84,800-sf building creates ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Swinerton is proud to announce that it has officially launched Swinerton Mass Timber, a new business unit dedicated to building projects using mass ...

When the coronavirus crisis slammed the U.S. economy, owners of vast forests of timberland saw business take a big hit as most new construction ground to a halt along with demand for wood products.

James Ongul, Managing Director of James Timberland, a workshop and timber yard based at Magumu Ward in Nyandarua County. [Courtesy] In the last few years, Kenya’s timber business has been beset with ...

In a small rural town, a quiet plywood factory houses a groundbreaking innovation in construction. Here in the timber town of Lyons, population 1,204, 96-year-old veneer manufacturer Freres Lumber ...

Scars left by axes swung before the Civil War show the work of skilled builders who shaped timbers for use in homes, barns and warehouses long before cutting machinery came along. Each board or beam ...

Last mill standing. On its face, the resurrection of the Rough & Ready Lumber Company in Cave Junction looks like a single turn of luck in a small town — a win for the last remaining mill. But what’s ...

The mass-timber revolution is swiftly making its mark on the American landscape. As of March, an estimated 1,384 mass-timber buildings have been constructed or are in design in all 50 states, and in ...