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Carrier Passes Audit
An audit of Carrier Lumber Ltd.’s forestry activities southeast of Prince George, BC, found compliance with B.C.’s forestry legislation, as Forest Practices Board said in the press release. “We are pleased to see that Carrier carried out good forest practices and fully met the requirements of the Forest and Range Practices Act and the Wildfire…
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Canfor Buys
Canfor Corp, out of Vancouver, BC, announced Wednesday the purchase of the operating assets of Southern Lumber Co. The acquisition includes a sawmill located in Hermanville, MI, which is a large log southern yellow pine dimension mill manufacturing predominately long, wide width lumber. The sawmill is in an area of exceptionally high quality fibre and…
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Maibec Signs
An agreement was signed last week between manufacturing company maibec Inc. of Lévis, QC, and Fraser Timber LLC for maibec’s purchase of the assets of the Masardis Maine lumber mill. The mill employs approximately 135 people and can produce over 100 million board feet of softwood lumber annually. The mill’s lumber is sold to the…
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Lumber prices rise amid reports of supply holes in eastern Canada, U.S.
October 3, 2014 MADISON’S WEEKLY LUMBER MARKET UPDATE AND OVERVIEW Provided by: Madison’s Lumber Reporter www.madisonsreport.com North American dimension lumber and panel prices waffled back upward this week as seriously depleted field inventories of solid wood products and an up-limit lumber futures board Wednesday collided to stop the two-week drop in most prices, according to…
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Lumber prices rise amid reports of supply holes in eastern Canada, U.S.
October 3, 2014 MADISON’S WEEKLY LUMBER MARKET UPDATE AND OVERVIEW Provided by: Madison’s Lumber Reporter www.madisonsreport.com North American dimension lumber and panel prices waffled back upward this week as seriously depleted field inventories of solid wood products and an up-limit lumber futures board Wednesday collided to stop the two-week drop in most prices, according to…
