Author: Madison’s Lumber Reporter

  • Canada Residential Construction Index: 3Q 2015

    The total value of investment in residential construction rose 3.3 per cent to $31.9 billion in the third quarter compared with the same quarter a year earlier, said Statistics Canada Thursday. This marked the seventh consecutive year-over-year quarterly growth. Investment in apartment and apartment-condominium building construction (up 21.5 per cent to $4.7 billion), acquisition costs…

  • US Freight Rail Traffic: November 2015

    The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Wednesday that US traffic in November totalled 1,041,605 carloads, down 10.4 per cent, or 120,259 carloads, from November 2014.  US railroads also originated 1,024,162 containers and trailers in November 2015, down 1 per cent, or 10,828 units, from the same month last year.  For November 2015, combined US…

  • Canada Softwood Lumber Production: September 2015

    Lumber production by sawmills increased 5.2 per cent from August to 5,563.5 thou- sand cubic metres in September, according to new data released by Statistics Canada Tuesday. Compared with September 2014, lumber production rose 7.8 per cent. Sawmills shipped 5,609.5 thousand cubic metres of lumber in September, up 8.5 per cent from August. Shipments rose…

  • Canada Softwood Lumber Production: September 2015

    Lumber production by sawmills increased 5.2 per cent from August to 5,563.5 thou- sand cubic metres in September, according to new data released by Statistics Canada Tuesday. Compared with September 2014, lumber production rose 7.8 per cent. Sawmills shipped 5,609.5 thousand cubic metres of lumber in September, up 8.5 per cent from August. Shipments rose…

  • Canada Lumber Exports Up, US Log Exports Down

    The latest StatsCan data, out Monday shows an interesting picture for North American forest products…while the lumber business in the US is improving there it is going to be a slow, steady haul for the next approx three years I think :-/ Right now we’re into the usual seasonal ‘boring’ end-of-year slowdown and curtailments. At…