by Associated Press Published: May 13,2013
Tags: agriculture, economic developments, employee, employer, employment, forest, forester, forestry, job, job creation, lumber, mill, plywood, timber, tre, wood, work, worker
LOUISVILLE — Natron Wood Products will locate a plywood mill in Louisville, creating more than 200 new jobs. Natron Wood Products owner Richard McDougal says the operations will be located in a 265,000-square-foot existing facility and represent a company investment of $10 million. The plant’s plywood overlay panels are used primarily in large vertical and [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 13,2013
Tags: agriculture, Alternative energy, alternative fuel, bioenergy, biofuel, ecosystem, energy, environment, federal agency, federal government, forest, forester, forestry, incenntive, lawmaker, legislative, lumber, marketing, public releations, Senator, sustainable energy, sustainabliity, timber, tree
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is questioning whether a U.S. Department of Agriculture bio-based marketing program amounts to a bias against traditional forest products and whether such policies are fair. Cochran broached the topic at a Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to review the FY2014 budget request for the USDA. The USDA BioPreferred [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 25,2013
Tags: agriculture, expand, expansion, facility, forest, forestry, fund, funding, lumber, plan, plant, sawmill, timber, tree, wood
ATLANTA — Georgia-Pacific is developing plans for potential investments, which total nearly $400 million, in its plywood and lumber operations. The company has approved funding for significant engineering and is evaluating facilities in a number of southern states, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. The effort would increase Georgia-Pacific’s overall [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 20,2013
Tags: county government, economic development, expansion, forest, lumber, manufacturer, manufacturing, manufaxcture, plant, sawmill, state agency, timber, tree
GRENADA — Fly Timber is expanding its operations in Grenada. The project represents a company investment of more than $6 million and will create 30 new jobs, bringing the total number of workers employed at the Grenada facility to 80, according to a news release from the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA). Fly Timber, which has [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: March 1,2013
Tags: agriculture, Andy Prosser, catfish, cotton, MDAC, peanuts, poultry, soybeans, sweet potatoes, timber
Agriculture remains the number one industry in Mississippi with one out of every four residents employed directly or indirectly in that industry. In terms of the state’s best cash crop economically, the production of chickens and eggs is our number one commodity, with soybeans at number two and forestry at number three. “Our economy is [...] [...]
Heading toward its quarter-century anniversary, TimberCorp Inc. has managed to turn a profit every year. However, there were some slim times at the land management company that has thrived through natural disasters, invasive species and a recession/housing market collapse. “About three or four months of opening the company, I needed to buy a gate for [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 18,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, case, commission, court, employment law, fire, firing, forest, forester, forestry, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, logging, lumber, state agency, terminate, termination, timber, tree, wood
FRANKLIN COUNTY — The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Franklin County forester fired for opposing a logging plan pushed by the state. The Supreme Court let stand a ruling by the Court of Appeals which last year sided with the Mississippi Forestry Commission. The Appeals Court decision overturned a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 14,2012
Tags: agriculture, construction, economic development, employment, energy, forest, fuel, green, job, lumber, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, plant, sustaiable, timber, tree, wood, wood pelet, work, worker
GLOSTER — A British power generator will build a pair of mills in southwestern Mississippi and northeastern Louisiana to make wood pellets to burn for electricity in the United Kingdom. A unit of Drax Group, PLC will spend more than $200 million to build mills in Gloster and near Bastrop, La., each capable of yearly [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 10,2012
Tags: agriculture, employee, employer, employment, forest, forestry, layoff, lumber, sawmill, shift, timber, tree, unemployment, wood, work, worker
VICKSBURG — Anderson-Tully Company is shutting down a second shift at its Vicksburg sawmill and is laying off 80 employees by Jan. 4. The company tells the Vicksburg Post the move has been in the works for two months because of a depressed housing market. “This is a core business decision to right-size production to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 9,2012
Tags: Alternative energy, alternative fuel, biofuel, energy, forest, forester, forestry, fuel, green, manuacturing, manufacture, manufacturer, plant, production, REFINERY, timber, tree, wood
COLUMBUS — Alternative fuel firm KiOR says it started production in October in Columbus, and plans to make its first commercial shipments before November’s end. CEO Fred Cannon told analysts on a conference call the technology is working “and producing a high-quality oil. I am extremely pleased with the performance of our technology at Columbus.” [...] [...]
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