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Lumber Production, Sawmill Capacity: WWPA
The Western Wood Products Association, out of Portland, OR, this week released it’s latest monthly Lumber Track, highlighting Canadian and US lumber production and sawmill capacity. This latest issue also contains nal revisions for the WWPA’s 2015 Annual Mill Operating Survey results. Western Wood Productions Association Lumber Track: April 2016 Softwood lumber production by US…
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Housing Starts Canada: May 2016
Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp said Monday the seasonally adjusted annualized rate of Canadian housing starts rose to 218,333, or 17 per cent, in June from a revised 186,709 in May. Canada Housing Starts Housing starts in Toronto totalled an annualized 45,848 in June, the highest since March, said CMHC. Vancouver re– corded a…
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Japan Housing Starts: May 2016
Japan’s housing starts in May were 78,728 units (up 9.8 per cent from the same month in the previous year), surpassing the previous year’s results for five consecutive months, according to Japan Lumber Journal Thursday. Housing Starts, Japan Compared with the previous month, Japan housing starts decreased by 4.5 per cent due to Golden Week…
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Nova Scotia Natural Resources Funding and Projects
Nova Scotia provincial funding partners the Department of Natural Resources and Innovacorp are jointly contributing $667,000 to Halifax, NS-based energy giant Emera Inc’s $1 million into a new private-public partnership forestry innovation “hub,” based in an Innovacorp of office in Dartmouth, NS. Nova Scotia Forestry New PPP Innovation Hub Nova Scotia provincial funding partners the…
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More Softwood Lumber Talks Transparency Urged
This week Eacom Timber again went on public record requesting more progress, and updates, on the important Canada-US Softwood Lumber trade issue. “The American market is critical for us … the majority of our shipments are destined to the US,” said Christine Leduc, EACOM’s director of public affairs to Timmins Press Monday. “If you’re (a…
