Canadian lumber production rose 19.5 per cent in January, with sawmills producing 5,813.4 thousand cubic metres of lumber, said Statistics Canada April 10. Production was 5.2 per cent higher than January 2016.
In January, sawmills shipped 5,452 thousand cubic metres of lumber, up 10.1 per cent from December. Shipments were 2.8 per cent higher than in January 2016.