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Import/Export Wood Purchasing News - December 2023/January 2024

The latest issue of Import/Export Wood Purchasing News features stories on the NHLA Convention, the VietnamWood Woodworking Industry Fair, the American Hardwood Export Council's Greater China and Southeast Asia Convention and much more.

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THANK YOU!<br />

NEWSWIRES<br />

MARKETING<br />

Clark Lumber Company Installs<br />

New Covered Air-Drying Sheds<br />

Paul Miller, Jr.<br />

Terry Miller<br />

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT<br />

Zach Miller<br />

MAGAZINE<br />

Chris Fehr<br />

NEWSPAPERS<br />

Clark Lumber Co., headquartered in Red Boiling<br />

Springs, TN, recently added three more covered<br />

air-drying sheds, each capable of holding 500,000<br />

board feet of lumber or 1.5 million board feet of new<br />

drying capacity. This brings their total covered air-drying<br />

capacity to 5 million board feet.<br />

Brandon Clark<br />

Clark Lumber operates six sawmills, producing<br />

approximately 50 million board feet of Appalachian Hardwoods in 4/4-8/4<br />

thicknesses. Species produced are: Red and White Oak, Hard and Soft Maple,<br />

Poplar, Ash, Cherry, Hickory, Walnut and Aromatic Red Cedar. The company<br />

has a drying capacity of 900,000 board feet. All lumber is dried to six to eight<br />

percent moisture content and marketed throughout North America and around<br />

the globe.<br />

For more information, visit www.clarklumbercompany.com.<br />

Grayce Thurman<br />

Sue Putnam<br />

DIRECTORIES<br />

Jennifer Trentman<br />

Cadance Hanson<br />

Our sincere thanks for<br />

your business and letting<br />

us serve you for 96 years!<br />

BOOKKEEPER<br />

Trudy Baxter<br />

Publications Edited For Specialized Markets<br />

And Distributed Worldwide Include:<br />

• National Hardwood Magazine • Hardwood <strong>Purchasing</strong> Handbook<br />

• Green Book’s Hardwood Marketing Directory<br />

• Green Book’s Softwood Marketing Directory Online<br />

• The Softwood Forest Products Buyer<br />

• <strong>Import</strong>/<strong>Export</strong> <strong>Wood</strong> <strong>Purchasing</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

• <strong>Import</strong>ed <strong>Wood</strong> <strong>Purchasing</strong> Guide • Forest Products <strong>Export</strong> Directory<br />

• Softwood Forest Products Buyer NAWLA Edition<br />

WOOD TRADE PUBLICATIONS<br />

EST 1927<br />

Tammy Daugherty<br />

Lisa Carpenter<br />

DATA ENTRY<br />

Sarah Hubbard<br />

CIRCULATION<br />

Camille Campbell<br />

Apryll Cosby<br />

Lexi Hardin<br />

ART DEPARTMENT<br />

800-844-1280<br />

PO Box 34908<br />

Memphis, TN 38134<br />

www.millerwoodtradepub.com<br />

Rachael Stokes<br />

TELEMARKETING<br />

Emily Heffernan<br />

Cole Hardwood Welcomes New<br />

Sales Representative<br />

Joel Horling recently joined Cole Hardwood, located<br />

in Logansport, IN, as their newest sales representative.<br />

Cole Hardwood offers Red and White Oak, Hickory,<br />

Poplar, Hard and Soft Maple, Ash, Beech, Walnut and<br />

Cherry in 4/4 through 8/4 and up to 16/4 in Poplar, to<br />

their domestic and export customers.<br />

Joel Horling<br />

Horling has been in the forest products industry since<br />

1997 when he started out as a lumber handler. He has since been a sales representative<br />

for various other hardwood lumber companies.<br />

Horling graduated from Grand Valley State University, located in Allendale,<br />

MI, in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.<br />

He and his wife Crista have four children and two grandchildren. He enjoys<br />

playing golf.<br />

For more information, visit www.colehardwood.com.<br />

Granite Valley Forest Products<br />

Welcomes Adam Hyer<br />

Granite Valley Forest Products, located in New<br />

London, WI, recently brought Adam Hyer on board as<br />

their supply chain manager. Hyer will oversee kilndried<br />

lumber buying, inventory turns, product and<br />

market development, strategic growth, as well as developing<br />

and recruiting talented employees in all roles.<br />

Adam Hyer<br />

Granite Valley produces Red and White Oak, Hard<br />

and Soft Maple, Walnut, Basswood, Aspen, Hickory, Chestnut, Poplar and<br />

Eastern White Pine in thicknesses of 4/4 through 8/4, all Forest Stewardship<br />

Council certified, BMSB certified in Australia and New Zealand, as well as<br />

European Union and United Kingdom compliant. They offer ripped to width<br />

lumber. Granite Valley has 40 dry kilns, 60 bay green bin sorter, 100 carts off<br />

their dry line and two sawmills. Granite Valley purchases 400,000 board feet<br />

of kiln-dried lumber monthly (5 million board feet annually).<br />

Before joining the Granite Valley team, Hyer started piling lumber in 2004,<br />

he then went on to be the chief business development officer, chief inventory<br />

officer and director of international sales at MacDonald & Owen Lumber. He<br />

also serves as a volunteer for the American Hardwood <strong>Export</strong> Council and<br />

previously served as the chairman of the board.<br />

Hyer went to the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse and graduated with a<br />

degree in Chemistry in 2004.<br />

Hyer has been married to his wife for 21 years and is a father to five children.<br />

For more information, visit www.granitevalley.com.<br />

www.bingamanlumber.com<br />

<strong>Import</strong>/<strong>Export</strong> <strong>Wood</strong> <strong>Purchasing</strong> <strong>News</strong> n <strong>December</strong> <strong>2023</strong>/<strong>January</strong> <strong>2024</strong> Page 41

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