by Forestnet | Apr 28, 2026 | 2026, March/April 2026, New Technology, Research & Innovation, Sawmill, Supplier Newsline, TimberWest Magazine
EUGENE, Oregon – States Industries, a leading manufacturer of decorative hardwood panels and components, is reaping the benefits of investing in robotic equipment in recent years. The company partnered with 7robotics for a custom robotic drilling and screwing system....
by Paul MacDonald | Jan 26, 2026 | 2026, Industry News, January/February 2026, New Technology, Research & Innovation, Steep Slope, TimberWest Magazine
Hybrid cars and trucks have certainly become more common, but hybrid logging equipment? T-Mar Industries has developed a first: a diesel-electric hybrid grapple yarder that is operating in forests of coastal British Columbia. “It is the first machine of its type in...
by Paul MacDonald | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Harvesting, Industry News, New Technology, November/December 2025, Research & Innovation, Steep Slope, Supplier Newsline
Hybrid cars and trucks seem to be everywhere these days—but a hybrid piece of logging equipment recently started working in the forests on the British Columbia coast, and it’s getting some attention. And it all started with a mini unintentional demo in the yard of...
by Forestnet | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025, 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, New Technology, November/December 2025, November/December 2025, Research & Innovation, Sawmill, Supplier Newsline, TimberWest Magazine
American Wood Dryers (Pictured above) American Wood Dryers, based in Oregon, offers a full range of lumber kiln solutions, including continuous kilns, package kilns, and track kilns. The company also supplies pre-dryers, fan sheds, and cooling sheds. It also offers...
by Tim Cox | Oct 21, 2025 | 2025, Fire Mitigation, Forest Management, New Technology, Research & Innovation, September/October 2025, TimberWest Magazine, Wildfire
South San Francisco, California – California experienced its worst fire season in 2020. Residents in the San Francisco Bay region contended with widespread smoke and smoky, orange-tainted skies. Two men with no background in forestry, both residents of the region,...
by Paul MacDonald | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, Fire Mitigation, Forest Management, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, July/August 2025, New Technology, Research & Innovation
Photos by Michelle Nortje The newspaper headlines this summer are familiar from previous summers, but they are no less tragic: thousands of people suddenly being evacuated due to forest fires, hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest lands lost to out-of-control...
