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Discover how Comact combines wood-processing expertise, AI, and customer collaboration to improve hardwood manufacturing performance.

NHLA Chief Inspector Dana Spessert explains knot measurement, sound and unsound knots, and the role of judgment in hardwood grading.

Explore how Crossroads Strategies and Seven Letter help bring hardwood industry advocacy & priorities into policy, design, and public conversations.

Dallin Brooks explains how NHLA’s strategies, tools, and expertise to help hardwood mill improvement & to identify savings and strengthen their operations.

Discover how an NHLA Yield Analysis helps mills identify recoverable value, reduce sawmill yield loss, and make informed operational decisions.

AHEC’s Mike Snow examines 2026 U.S. hardwood exports, shifting global markets, rising log shipments, and trade pressures.

NHLA Chairperson Stephanie Van Dystadt shares her vision for communication, cooperation, and a stronger collective hardwood industry voice.

Dana Cole outlines potential legislative and administrative pathways for $200 million in relief for U.S. hardwood industry manufacturers.

Tim Portz examines how U.S. and European wood pellet heating policy affects adoption, sawmill residual demand, and industry revenue.

Hardwood markets are under pressure. Explore how mills can improve yield, recover more value and adapt as demand, trade and costs shift.

See how confidential sawmill benchmarking can help hardwood mills compare production, recovery, labor, costs, energy use, safety and more.

Explore the 2026 hardwood lumber market outlook as energy costs, mortgage rates, housing, remodeling and global trade reshape demand.

NHLA explores government procurement of American hardwood products as a way to grow domestic demand and support U.S. manufacturers.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin visits a Virginia hardwood mill as NHLA connects environmental policy, manufacturing and American hardwood.

NHLA National Inspector Marty Westeen shares what hardwood lumber inspection really involves and how grading expertise helps mills improve.

See how the 2026 Farm Bill could impact hardwood and forestry through workforce funding, Wood Innovation Grants, biomass policy and more.

Learn how NHLA and Crossroads Strategies are advancing American hardwood through federal procurement, policy engagement, and support for domestic manufacturing.

See how Real American Hardwood is reaching architects, designers, builders, and specifiers to increase American hardwood use in sustainable design.

Explore how NHLA is investing in advocacy, hardwood promotion, mill optimization, AI grading, and new markets to strengthen the American hardwood industry.

Discover what an NHLA lumber inspector really does, from solving costly sawmill problems and improving lumber yield to introducing a new generation to hardwood careers.