RISON — The depressed U.S. housing market has stunted demand for most wood products, but wood-utility-pole makers have escaped most of the recession's effects thus far. Treated Materials Co., which ...

As utilities race to restore power to millions of customers in the wake of Hurricane Ida, wood pole treaters across the country are working hard to provide wood poles and crossarms needed to restore ...

There’s a reason Rodgers and Hammerstein never wrote about wooden utility poles. Every August from the Gulf Coast to the Garden State, T-shaped timbers and the wires they bear are strewn about like ...