Category: Lumber News

  • Canada Lumber Production at Sawmills, StatsCan: Full Year 2017

    Lumber production in Canada fell -18.6 per cent in December 2017 from November, with sawmills producing 4,827 thousand cubic metres of lumber, said Statistics Canada Thursday. Declines in production during this reference period are common due to the holiday season. Production was -0.8 per cent lower than in December 2016. Sawmills shipped 4,812 thousand cubic metres of lumber in December, down -14.9 per…

  • Madison’s Heating Wood Pellet Report: January 2018

    The latest data, for full year 2017, on Canadian and US residential heating wood pellet exports is now out. Also, to November 2017 numbers for US and Canadian pellet production, sales, and prices as well as competing home heating fuel prices are now out.   Don’t miss out on this vital and timely information regarding…

  • Famished Customers Descend on WSPF 2x8s

    Unable to hold off buying any longer and disgusted with continued high 2×4 prices out of North America’s western region, customers fled to the 2×8 sizes for their WSPF softwood lumber buying this week. Problems with delivery and receiving wood already ordered were cited as reasons for such desperate purchases. Prices of other construction framing…

  • Canada and US Forestry Data: Full Year 2017

    Data of volumes and values of North American forestry production, sales, and exports is starting to emerge out of Statistics Canada, Industry Canada, and the US Census. Of intense interest is Canadian softwood lumber production for full-year 2017. Now that the average approximately 20% US lumber duties are in effect, the movement of wood last…

  • Sawmills Invest, Buy, Expand

    Atlanta, GA’s, BMC Stock Holdings will acquire the business of W.E. Shone, the leading supplier of building materials in Delaware, said the company in a press release Wednesday. Tolko Industries, out of Vernon, BC, announced also Wednesday it has partnered with Louisiana-based Hunt Forest Products to build a state-of-the-art sawmill near Urania, LA. Elsewhere, Alabama’s…