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Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: March 6 ’15
KD Fir Ordeal Dry fir traders observed another indeterminate week, as they waited for some constancy to appear in this wonky market. Pricing was a day-to-day, producer-to-producer affair. Even though demand in many key regions was nonexistent, mills will likely continue to produce more than necessary simply because logs are cheap and readily available. Following…
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Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: March 6 ’15
KD Fir Ordeal Dry fir traders observed another indeterminate week, as they waited for some constancy to appear in this wonky market. Pricing was a day-to-day, producer-to-producer affair. Even though demand in many key regions was nonexistent, mills will likely continue to produce more than necessary simply because logs are cheap and readily available. Following…
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Global Pulp Market Update
Mark Wilde, formerly of Deutsche Bank, now Packaging & Forest Products Analyst at BMO Capital Markets, this week held a conference call on the global pulp market with fuest speaker Brian McClay, principal at Brian McClay & Associates out of Montreal, QC. This week Mark Wilde, formerly of Deutsche Bank, now Packaging & Forest Products…
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Canfor Canal Flats, BC, Lays off 81
Canfor, headquartered in Vancouver, BC, February 5 announced to their Canal Flats, BC, employees that the mill would be going from two shifts to one affecting 81 employees due to lack of economically available fibre effective May 4, 2015. Doug Singer, President of United Steelworkers Local 1-405 in Cranbrook, BC, told the Kootenay Advisor, “This…
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British Columbia Sawmill Dust Control
WorkSafeBC now has new powers to shut down workplaces, impose penalties on the spot, collect evidence, and compel payment of fines against employers who don’t comply with safety rules. WorkSafeBC has been overhauling investigation and inspection methods after flawed techniques were cited by the Crown for its decision not to lay criminal charges in both…
