Tenth PELICE Lives Up To Billing In Atlanta

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…

Forest Products Industry Says Goodbye To Walter

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.

. . .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…

Time To Stretch The Legs

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…

The Business At Hand

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…

Panel Industry Moves Ahead

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…

The Show(s) Must Go On!

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.…

Peanuts And Crackerjacks

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…

Is This Really Happening?

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…

Dear Fred, From Kenneth

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,…

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