Category: Lumber News

  • Madison’s Forest Pulse 2Q 2015: PREVIEW RELEASE

    MADISON’S FOREST PULSE 2Q 2015 The information tool for your forest management and investment Our quarterly product is tailored to provide you with vital information about the North American solid wood, pulp, and paper industry at your fingertips in a timely manner. CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD! ForestPulsePreview.pdf FOREST PULSE TESTIMONIAL: Michael Low | Director &…

  • Cellulose Nanocrystal and Nanotechnology Research

    Over 230 delegates from 25 countries gathered in Vancouver, BC, at the beginning of July for TAPPI’s 9th International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Nanomaterials. “This year’s conference was exceptional,” noted co-chair Wadood Hamad, Priniciple Scientist, FPInnovations to Nano Werk July 8. “The keynote and technical presentations were of very high quality. The advancements made…

  • Transportation Update: North America

    Big news out of the US this week on the transportation front: a Senate plan to fund federal highway and rail transportation projects for three years advanced on a procedural vote on Wednesday, overcoming a roadblock to begin debate on the legislation. The legislation is expected to dominate Senate debate into next week but would…

  • North America Timber Update and Forecast

    The latest data and analyses for North America timber usage is contradictory enough without a constantly changing landscape subject to politics and evolving title rights. Please see Page 7 for what happened in Québec this week with First Nations resource rights. Conference Board of Canada Otherwise, the Conference Board of Canada this week released a…

  • North America Log and Lumber Markets

    A spurt of talk in the past few days about lumber market recovery / not yet recovery prompted Madison’s to do a Round Up Update for North American log and lumber data: Said the Vancouver Sun Tuesday, “The key commodity price for 1,000 board feet of western spruce, pine or fir 2X4s, as reported by…