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Canfor Sells
Canfor Corp said this week it has an agreement to sell the Daaquam sawmill in Saint-Just-de-Bretenières, QC in a deal worth $25 million. The deal with Groupe Lebel and others is expected to close by the end of March, Canfor said in a release on Friday. The Daaquam mill produced 120 million board feet of…
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North American Freight
FROM THE MARCH 07 ISSUE OF MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER: Canada’s prairie grain farmers have been watching the quality and value of their crops decline over the last few months in fields or in storage due to a rail transportation bottleneck. The situation got so dire this week in Vancouver, BC, that Federal Minister of Transport…
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Lumber News Archives: July 2010
Nanocrystalline Cellulose ; Canada to Collect Remaining Additional Duty ; Housing Starts US; West Fraser, Interfor, Norbord Report 2Q Results ; CN Rail Reports ; Export Demand ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Canadian Housing Starts ; Japan Housing Starts ; Canfor Announces ; Paper and Pulp Industry ; STUDS Asia Exports ; US Export Growth…
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Lumber News Archives: June 2010
North American Home Building, Sales, and Prices ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Western Forest Products’ Ladysmith Mill ; Tembec Shares Soar on Outlook ; Japan’s Wood-Framed Building Promotion ; TimberWest Forest Announces ; 2010 Forest Products Annual Symposium ; Kiln Dried Western Fir Shaken ; RBC Economics’ Latest Economic Outlook Report ; Japan Housing Starts…
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Lumber News Archives: May 2010
China Trade ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; US Housing Starts ; West Fraser’s Hinton, AB, Pulp Mill Funding ; PwC Forestry and Paper Conference ; Softwood Export Tax ; WSCA Call Out ; Alberta Wildfire ; Japan Housing Starts ; North American Economic Data ; Canfor Restarts Ontario Forest Tenure Reform ; Madison’s Timber Preview…
