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BC Forest Practices Board
Seeking Manager of Special Projects June 11, 2020 The BC Forest Practices Board is searching for a dynamic professional to lead a broad range of projects through all phases of the project management life cycle. As the Manager of Special Projects, you thrive on objectively analyzing forestry issues of public importance, and enjoy working in…
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Softwood Lumber Prices June & US Housing Starts May: 2020
The USA purchases approximately 65% of Canadian lumber production mostly for construction framing, while Canadian buyers account for about 10%, and those in Japan take 6%.However: US and Canadian customers purchase mostly standard grades (#2&Btr), while Japan buys almost exclusively premium or “appearance” grades (J-grade) which sells for quite a bit more than standard grade…
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Softwood Lumber Prices Stabilize Even as Inventories Remain Weak
After a wild ride down then up over the past few months, most standard construction framing dimension softwood lumber prices stabilized last week, to levels both producers and customers are comfortable with. Inventories remain spotty as sawmill production is still constrained and buyers continue to look for highly specified loads only.Purveyors of Western Spruce-Pine-Fir commodities…
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MADISON’S SOFTWOOD LUMBER PRICES AND MARKET WEEKLY COMMENT:
Key comment: “Caution ruled every lumber sales deal last week, and demand from Eastern regions was again more active than in the West.” Softwood Lumber Prices updated June 16, 2020 (CLICK TABLE TO ENLARGE)
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North America Softwood Lumber Production, Sawmill Capacity Utilization, WWPA: FEB 2020
For the first two months of 2020 softwood lumber production in the US continued improvements compared to one-year-ago, to increase even more, says the latest issue of the Western Wood Products Association’s monthly Lumber Track. For January and February 2020 US lumber production volume increased by +5% to 6,163 mfbm compared to the first two…
