Piedmont Lumber & Mill Co. announced it will sell its remaining lumberyard in Lakeport, Calif., but is investigating whether to reopen in Walnut Creek, where its store was destroyed by fire on March 13. More
A buzz that swept through Texas in the past seven months was not about summer's sweltering temperatures or a down housing market. More
While the state of the market is depressing, it's always uplifting to see... More
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Not long ago, I visited a sawmill just west of the Continental Divide that's making a business out of our ancestors' mistakes. Intermountain Resources' operation in Montrose, Colo., expects this year to saw 40 million board-feet of lumber largely from lodgepole pines that are growing--dying, actually--on federal land. Those pines' story is largely the story of wood in America for the past 120 years. More
Alpine Lumber Co., Westminster, Colo., has purchased five lumberyards from Las Vegas, Nev.-based A.C. Houston Lumber Co., Alpine president Bill Miller confirmed Monday, April 7. The stores are in Angel Fire, Gallup and Farmington, N.M., and in Crested Butte and Durango, Colo. Financial details weren't disclosed. More
I read "Plastic Battles" in the January issue, and would like to offer some facts about PVC that may interest your readers. More
Lumberyard Couture: New materials and technologies dominate the workwear scene for... More
It was a robbery gone bad--very bad. Last August, a thief broke into Dunmore (Pa.) Lumber Co. When he discovered he had been caught on camera, the intruder torched the building. Up in flames went Dunmore's offices, hardware fasteners, and the millwork section, including windows and interior and exterior doors. More
Your passion for the lumber and building material business, your involvement in... More
