Known as “the last conference in the world,” PELICE provides boost of enthusiasm for all segments of the panel industry. ATLANTA, Ga.Forty-one speakers, 470 registrants and 95 exhibitors contributed to the 10th Panel & Engineered…

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World March 2024 Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World Walter Jarck, whose career in the forest products industry spanned 65 years and ranged from logging machinery to engineered…

. . .And Back In The U.S. Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World July 2023 As has often been the case in my previous trips there, perhaps the leading topic of conversation at the…

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World May 2023 In May, I depart for my 17th consecutive Ligna in Hannover, Germany. If the pandemic hadn’t canceled the event in 2021, I suppose this would have…

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World January 2023 Some forecasts coming out of APA—The Engineered Wood Association annual meeting in October painted a rather bleak economics picture for 2023. It was no surprise, given…

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World November 2022 As I glanced through the pages of the six issues of Panel World in 2022, various news developments refreshed my memory, but underlying it all was…

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World September 2022 If you think the pandemic caused the death of live trade shows, think again. Just take one quick browse through the Panel World September 2022 issue.…

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World July 2022 Sometimes the mention of a wood products plant rings as true as an old ballpark. Houlton, as in Houlton, Maine, is one example. You might say…

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World May 2022 At the risk of repeating myself (what the heck, I’ll be 67 in September), I remember at the beginning of the 2020 Panel & Engineered Lumber…

Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Panel World March 2022 While reading a draft of this issue’s cover story on Roseburg’s new LVL plant in Chester, SC, representing Roseburg’s first ever greenfield project in the South,…