Sawmill Spotlight
Made in America: A History of Southern Yellow Pine
When colonists settled Florida, Virginia and the Carolinas in the 1500s and 1600s Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) played a significant role in their survival. As the first settlers stepped ashore, forests of the four main varieties of SYP – Loblolly,…
Innovation, Tradition, Construction: Indigo Pine
by Michael Connelly, WIR Contributor Students at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina found inspiration all around them when working on their submission to the United States Department of Energy’s 2015 Solar Decathlon: Indigo Pine….
High Tech Timber: The Modern Sawmill
By Lia Therese Feliciano, WIR Contributor Think of how wood is sawed. For most people, this brings to mind an image of a lumberjack using a gigantic saw or an ax to cut through a log. While it may look pretty awesome on TV at the World…
Good to Know: Zero Waste in Sawmills
By Lia Therese Feliciano, WIR Contributor Many of us choose to build with Southern Yellow Pine for everything from our dream homes to weekend DIY projects because its aesthetic and function. And if those reasons aren’t enough to consider SYP…