Matthew Pelkki

Pactiv Evergreen sold the facility to the Brazilian pulp and paper giant as part of a restructuring of its beverage merchandising operations. read more >

Brazilian pulp and paper giant Suzano has a vision for the mill it is acquiring in Pine Bluff, but precisely what that is poses “the $64,000 question,” Arkansas forestry expert Matthew Pelkki says. read more >

The buyer, Brazil-based paper and pulp producer Suzano S.A., has agreed to offer employment to the mill's 1,000 workers. read more >

Once little more than a nuisance in loblolly pines, the blight has become recurrent enough that some trees are damaged or killed by disease. read more >

What’s behind this surge in announced sawmill updates and expansions? Historically high lumber prices. read more >

Mass timber production in Conway is on schedule and ready to deliver for Walmart and other customers. read more >

Here are the facts about toilet tissue supply in the era of a pandemic that is requiring more and more people to stay at home. read more >

The increasing popularity of cross-laminated timber as a building material has an Arkansas professor working on ways to transform a waste byproduct of CLT production into a construction material itself. read more >

The country may be headed for another recession, timber industry experts told Arkansas Business last week after Conifex Timber Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, announced an indefinite suspension of operations at its El Dorado sawmill. read more >

The timber industry, the biggest employer in south Arkansas, has recovered in the decade since the Great Recession. That doesn’t mean it will ever be the same. read more >

The letters USMCA may not say much to most Arkansans, but to state leaders in international trade, they spell relief. read more >

The state’s timber industry can’t take full advantage of a booming market because of the lack of truck drivers. read more >

Building with cross-laminated timber panels is changing the major elements of the construction industry – with southern Arkansas standing to gain if the process becomes more popular. read more >

This year’s hurricanes are likely to boost Arkansas’ timber industry, which was already experiencing a surge of new investment. read more >

Deltic Timber Corp. of El Dorado found its match when Potlatch came courting with an all-stock deal. read more >

Matthew Pelkki has written more than 100 scholarly articles and been a lead investigator in 27 projects involving more than $6 million in research funding. read more >

After historically low prices kept loggers from removing hardwoods from Arkansas forests for many years, something of a hardwood rebirth began recently. However, at least one timber expert has predicted that market pressures may reverse that trend soon. A significant threat to the industry, however, is an old one — insect infestation. read more >

Some in the timber industry in Arkansas say they see demand for forest products slowly increasing but fear that a workforce decimated by recession won’t be able to meet that demand. read more >