AFA NEWSROOM V17N33, August 17, 2022 | Canfor Southern Pine Plans New $210 Million Sawmill Near Mobile | |
Canfor Southern Pine is building a new $210 million sawmill complex in the Axis community near Mobile.
The project will replace the company’s existing Mobile operations and allow the company to retain about 130 jobs.
The new sawmill should be ready by the third quarter of 2024.
Tony Sheffield, president of Canfor Southern Pine, said in a statement that the sawmill complex “will be built with next-generation, innovative technology and transform our workplace to offer employees a modern facility that will operate for generations to come.”
| Alabama Cabinet Manufacturer Announces $17 Million Expansion, To Create 415 Jobs | |
A family-owned cabinet company has announced a $17 million expansion in Oxford that will create 415 jobs over five years.
Ashland-based Wellborn Cabinet Inc. will build a 250,000-square-foot facility to begin production of a new kitchen and bath cabinetry product.
Construction is set to begin next spring. The facility, to be built on 60 acres at Oxford West Industrial Park in Talladega County, should begin operations in the fall of 2024.
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AFA Annual Meeting - September 11-13
Get Ready-We are heading to the beach!
| Registration for the 2022 AFA Annual Meeting is in full swing! Click the link below to learn more about our speakers, agenda, sponsors, and hotel information. We look forward to seeing you in September! |
Don't forget to register for the next installment of AFA's Public Policy Series - Issues Affecting Timberland Ownership. You can register to attend as an add-on to the AFA Annual Meeting or attend independently. Check out the 2022 Public Policy Series website for more information!
| What is BRP and How Will It Impact the Future of the P&P Industry? | Unbleached recycled fiber market pulp, also known as brown recycled pulp or BRP, is a new grade of market pulp that didn’t exist before 2017, but is expected to be a hot raw material in the Pulp and Paper industry within the next couple of years. BRP is produced using recovered paper that has been processed through state-of-the-art stock preparation systems, formed, dried and then shipped in bales or rolls. The material uses fiber from roughly 70-100% old corrugated containers (OCC), with mixed paper (MP) making up the remainder. It can be used as a replacement for traditional recovered fibers in the production of containerboard. | Kentucky Forest Industries Flood Relief Fund | |
The recent flooding in eastern Kentucky counties is actually more devastating that what has been shown on the national news. The Kentucky Forest Industries Association has officially started a fund raising effort to assist wood industry related families in eastern Kentucky to assist them in primarily repairing and rebuilding their homes. Donations can be made directly to KFIA or through our Go Fund Me Page which has a link below.
Any support and assistance you can provide in getting the word out would be very much appreciated.
Bob Bauer
Kentucky Forest Industry Association
| Construction Material Prices Stabilizing | Recently released new data showing that stability may be returning to the cost of construction materials as pandemic-driven volatility subsides, but because of factors such as high global energy prices, increasing interest rates, labor shortages, and fuel and freight costs, the reduction in commodity prices won't be felt until the beginning of 2023. The company’s Q2 Commodity Report for the United States also shows that tariffs on imported lumber and other materials are keeping costs higher for American builders. | Understand Ecological Impacts of Feral Swine and Learn Best Management Strategies to Deal with Them in tomorrow’s AFA Connect -August 18,2022 |
Feral Swine Ecological Impacts and Management Strategies with Bence Carter, Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Feral swine damage to agriculture is fairly well documented and understood, while the extent of impacts to native ecosystems is not. This presentation will highlight impacts to our natural resources and discuss the “Do’s and Dont's” that are frequently overlooked in feral swine management.
| Small-Scale Forest Landowners Gain Foothold In U.S. Carbon Markets | |
For Sara Velazquez and her husband, purchasing the 55 acres behind their rural Pennsylvania home was the start of a lengthy effort to preserve and resuscitate the hilly forestland.
The question was how to pay for that work.
“A nice, healthy oak forest – that’s what I want,” Velazquez, 28, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in June, sweeping her arm across the property’s shadowed valleys and mixed tree stands.
| Sustainability and Putting Our Best Foot Forward | I was chatting recently with a paper company CEO and he asked me how the
sustainability work of the campaign was being received. I told him I
feel like a rockstar when I meet with industry groups and individual
companies because of their genuine excitement when I share how we are
creatively finding new, unexpected and contemporary ways
to talk about our industry’s commitment to private forest owners and
replacing trees at a higher volume than they are sourced. And that the
industry is well on its way to meeting its $5 billion commitment to
recycling infrastructure by 2024. |
The Alabama Tree Farm Committee is preparing to hold its annual Silent Auction in conjunction with the 2022 AFA Annual Meeting, September 11-13, 2022. The Silent Auction has always been Tree Farm’s largest fundraiser, with proceeds going to promote Alabama’s Tree Farm program and serve Tree Farmers throughout the state. Last year’s auction and raffle raised almost $7,000.00 for our state program. The committee is seeking donations of items or funds for the purchase of bid items.
| Sun-sational Delivery Packaging - Renovating Meal Kit Subscription Boxes for a Healthier Environment |
In the wake of the deadly heat wave that recently swept across Europe and destroyed more than 40 buildings, we noted that buildings are partly to blame for climate change. The built environment accounts for nearly 50 percent of all carbon emissions and faces an uphill battle towards decarbonization, especially as mass urbanization will require even more buildings to rise in densely packed cities. A major piece of the puzzle involves building materials—steel and concrete are both construction staples, but account for more than 13 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions thanks to high amounts of embedded carbon.
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Initial PLM Class In Evergreen -
August 24th, 2022
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First Annual Workforce Development Forum - September 10, 2022
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Join our ForestryWorks partners for the first annual Workforce Development Forum down in Orange Beach, AL in conjunction with the AFA Annual Meeting! Topics include: apprenticeship programs, non-traditional workforce solutions, career promotion opportunities, customized training tools and much more! Have questions -contact Stephanie Fuller at sfuller@alaforestry.org
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11th Annual Sunburn Classic
Golf Tournament -September 12
| In the weeks leading up to and during our Alabama Woods to Goods Week 2022 celebration, we will be sharing stories about why forestry is "more than an industry" to people throughout the state of Alabama. Let us know what forestry means to you by clicking the link below. | Online CE Available For PLM & CFE |
Foresters and loggers, a reminder that AFA offers online continuing education. Now is a great time to go ahead and handle continuing education hours.
Click below for a list of classes.
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