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May 2025 |
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Around the Industry Southern Pine Exports for March 2025 Exports of Southern Pine lumber (treated and untreated) in the first quarter of 2025 were 12% behind the same quarter in 2024 at 122 MMBF, but up 2% over the fourth quarter of 2024,
February 2025 Southern Pine Lumber Shipments Southern Pine lumber shipments in February totaled 1.589 billion board feet (BBF), 7% below January’s revised shipments of 1.701 BBF.
SPIB President Retiring; Matt Scholl to Take Reins The Southern Pine Inspection Bureau has announced its president, Steve Singleton, will retire June 30, 2025. Singleton will continue to support the organization in an advisory capacity through the end of the year.
SLB Releases 2024 Annual Report In 2024, the SLB continued to target investments across its key program areas of codes, communications, conversions, and education through its funded programs, partnerships, and initiatives.
Thermal Cameras to Prevent Downtime? When you ask a sawmill manager to name the most expensive word in the plant, the answer is usually “downtime.” That’s where thermal cameras can help.
West Fraser Releases 2024 Sustainability Report
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SFPA Updates Meet the 2024 Sawmill Safety Award Recipients The seven award recipients represent a record of 1,883,749 total hours worked among 757 employees – achieving safety excellence with zero reported incidents. This is the fourth year in a row where at least seven member mills reported zero incidents.
Check Out the New Headers & Beams Tables The Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) has released a new technical publication, Allowable Load Tables for Machine-Graded Lumber, providing six newly developed load tables for the two most commonly produced grades of machine-graded Southern Pine lumber: 2,400F – 2.0E and M-23.
From the Executive Director for May 2025 introduces our newest publication, the 2024 Sawmill Safety Award recipients, and EXPO 2025 updates!
Have You Been Following Us on LinkedIn? We understand your newsfeed may become busy, so here’s a recap of the news and resources we’ve shared during the past two weeks to help you get caught up – all in one place! |
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Forest Products EXPO Housing, Registration Now Open Registration and housing reservations in the official hotel block for the 38th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition (EXPO 2025), presented by the Southern Forest Products Association, are now open!
The three-day biannual tradeshow, to be held August 6-8, 2025, at the Music City Center in Nashville, will provide you with solutions for nearly every stage of manufacturing for softwood and hardwood operations.
From raw material handling to crane operations; metal detection and scanning technologies; log optimization, drying, grading, sorting, packaging, and distribution, there’s an exhibiting company representative on site to explore these solutions with you face to face.
EXPO 2025 will be one of the best yet with:
Celebrate Safety and Women at EXPO 2025 EXPO 2025 will feature two new summits:
Sawmill Safety Awards & Summit August 7, 2025 | 7-8:50 a.m. (breakfast included) | The Embassy Suites
Start Day 2 of Forest Products EXPO 2025 with networking, live Nashville music, and a plated breakfast as we recognize seven SFPA lumber manufacturing members with the 2024 John Edgar Rhodes Sawmill Safety Excellence Awards.
Then stick around for a 45-minute Safety Summit where each mill will discuss its safety culture, how it achieved zero incidents in 2024, and advice for mills looking to improve their safety records.
You’ll be out in time to cross the street when the exhibit hall doors open!
Women's Leadership Summit August 7, 2025 | 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (lunch included) | The Embassy Suites
Be part of a powerful new event shaping the future of leadership in the forest products industry. The inaugural Women’s Leadership Summit, presented by the Southern Forest Products Association, is open to both women and men who are passionate about growth, innovation, and driving change.
Kick off the afternoon with 30 minutes of high-impact networking over lunch, then, dive into a dynamic 90-minute panel discussion.
Led by moderator Donna Whitaker, former vice president with Interfor (and former board chair with SFPA), three trailblazers will share actionable strategies and real-world insights on the following topics:
Final Call for EXPO 2025 Exhibit Space We’re down to just three (3) open spots, so if you haven’t secured your booth, now is the time before we're sold out! |
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