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Looming Winter Puts Damper on Lumber and Panel Prices
November 07, 2014 MADISON’S WEEKLY LUMBER MARKET UPDATE AND OVERVIEW Provided by: Madison’s Lumber Reporter www.madisonsreport.com Prices of most North American dimension lumber and panel commodities softened slightly this week as players struggled to overcome the inexorable approach of true winter weather and the usual seasonal slow-down in home building and solid wood manufacturing, according…
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Looming Winter Puts Damper on Lumber and Panel Prices
November 07, 2014 MADISON’S WEEKLY LUMBER MARKET UPDATE AND OVERVIEW Provided by: Madison’s Lumber Reporter www.madisonsreport.com Prices of most North American dimension lumber and panel commodities softened slightly this week as players struggled to overcome the inexorable approach of true winter weather and the usual seasonal slow-down in home building and solid wood manufacturing, according…
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New BC Forest Licences
This week the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations announced the creation a new type of forest licence that allows emerging, innovative forestry companies to more effectively respond to fluctuations in the supply of wood fibre. These licences will allow secondary manufacturers, such as pellet producers, to apply for supplemental forest…
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Canada Producer Price, Raw Materials Price Index
The Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI) decreased 0.4 per cent in September, mainly because of lower prices for energy and petroleum products, said Statistcis Canada Wednesday. The Raw Materials Price Index (RMPI) declined 1.8 per cent in September, largely as a result of lower prices for crude energy products. The decrease in the IPPI was…
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Sawmill Fires
At least 30 firefighters from Maple Ridge and Mission, British Columbia, worked through Saturday night and into Sunday morning fighting a fire that consumed at least half of Whonnock cedar mill’s main building at 27400 Lougheed Highway. It could be a few months, at least, before Fraser Cedar Products’ shake and shingle operation is back…
