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North American Railroad Shipper Survey
RBC Dominion Securities this week released its RBC Compass, 2015 North American Railroad Shipper Survey. The survey taps into the views of the Class 1 railroads’ top customers, with key findings focusing on shippers’ expectations for 2015 regarding: the direction of rail rates; volume growth; and service performance. This year, the survey also solicited shippers’…
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Madison’s Lumber Reporter Contact Change . . . .
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Biomass Fuel
The innovative chemical process modifies cellulose, present in non-edible plant matter such as wood, straw, grass, cotton, or paper, by removing oxygen bonded to its hydrocarbon chains while preserving the chains’ structure. There has also been recent progress in developing cellulosic nanomaterials from wood material, stiff and lightweight products from cellulose manipulated at the molecular…
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Lumber prices stay flat as severe weather wallops key markets
The relentless onset of winter conditions this week did nothing to bolster US and Canadian lumber and panel sales, despite the annual North American Wholesale Lumbermen’s Association meeting being held in Chicago, IL, last week, according building materials price newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter. Prices on almost all standard construction framing commodities remained flat as severe…
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Madison’s Mention in Vancouver Sun today:
Supply may not meet demand for B.C. lumber exports Pine beetle-ravaged forests may have trouble supplying growth in U.S. home construction By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun November 20, 2014 British Columbia’s forest sector is going to lead growth in the province’s exports next year to feed burgeoning new-home construction in the U.S., but lumber makers…
