Category: Lumber News

  • Madison’s Lumber Reporter sample issue *new*

    Get the View on North American Lumber Markets Download a *FREE* Sample Issue from our archives. Madison’s Lumber Reporter 05/15/15 Take a look at this week’s Key Prices from Madison’s Canadian Lumber Reporter. Sign Up Now: E-mail or Fax: C$$99.95 per quarter. Just call our office 604 319-2266 with a credit card to start receiving…

  • Forestry Week 2015: Vancouver

    Last week the Pulp and Paper Products Council and PwC held their annual forestry conferences in Vancouver, BC. As always the events were jam-packed with great speakers providing up-to-the minute information on the latest developments with the forest products industry in North America and internationally. Numerous networking sessions gave the over-capacity crowd a chance to…

  • North American Forest Company News

    This was Forestry Week in Vancouver, BC, with the Pulp and Paper Products Council and PwC holding their annual forestry conferences. Madison’s will provide coverage and updates on the sessions and conference topics in a future issue. Meanwhile there was plenty of breaking news about North American softwood lumber production; including downtime, curtailments, earnings reports,…

  • Madison’s Forest Pulse: 1Q 2015 — Out Today!!

    THE LATEST Lumber Production and Export Data: • US sawmill products exports to China by VALUE are down by -17.5% (compared to up +20% for previous quarter), to US$189 million (FAS value), for Jan to Feb 2015. The previous year it was US$229 million. • US sawmill products imports from Canada by VALUE are up…

  • US Forest Products Industry: 2015 USDA Report

    This week the US Department of Agriculture, via the US Forest Service Southern Research Station, released it’s report, “The Global Position of the US Forest Products Industry”. The Key Findings for the solid wood manufacturing sector in this latest US Forest Service report are: •  the US share of global wood products output peaked in 1998…