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  • Lumber News Archives: Feb 2009

    Pulp and Paper ; Catalyst Closures ; Canadian Tarrif Charge; US Existing Home Sales Lumber Production; Closures and Curtailments ; US Housing Starts; US Mortgage Assistance Package Canadian Exports; Wooden Roof Trusses Into China; Japanese Housing Starts; US Home Values; Newsprint Production; Five More Years of US Housing Market Crisis; US Pending Home Sales; Closures…

  • Lumber News Archives: July 2008

    Canfor’s Prince George Plywood Plant, Lumber Transportation on the Rails, European Timber Imports, PwC Annual Forest Industry Report, BioFuel From Wood Residue, First Nations Strike Lumber Deals in China, BC’s New Forest Minister, The New Business of Lumber, Softwood Pulp Canfor Will Not Rebuild Prince George Plywood Plant After a financial review and a look…

  • Lumber News Archives: Oct 2008

    Mountain Pine Beetle, Mackenzie Pulp Mill Freeze, US Existing Home Sales, Russian Log Export Ban, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., European Trade with Canada, Sales Closures Cancellations, Global Mortgage Buyouts, Lumber Industry Investment, Mackenzie Pulp Mill Stalled, Sawmill and Pulp Mill Curtailments, The Business of Credit Mountain Pine Beetle A new education package for BC secondary students…

  • Lumber News Archives: Sept 2008

    BioFuels, Japanese Earthquake Test, Chinese Wood Framed Home Building, Mackenzie Pulp Mill, Pine Beetle Money, Bio-Energy Money, Investing in Forestry, Global Pulp & Newsprint, Conifex Inc’s. Future Plans, Nanaimo Forest Products Meets Deadline, US Forest Products Sector, Japanese Spruce Imports, Tembec Curtails Pulp Facilities BioFuels In just the few short months since Madison’s wrote about…

  • Madison’s Lumber News Archives: Aug 2008

    Russian Timber Imports, Wood Chip Demand, AbitibiBowater Production Cuts, US Lumber Imports, Pope & Talbot’s Mackenzie Pulp Mill Sold, JD Irving Mill Closures, Canadian Timberland Development in China, Forestry Equipment Suppliers, TimberWest Land Sale, US Mortgage Issues Russian Timber Imports Russian Timber Imports News of the proposed Russian 80 per cent export tax on raw…