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Wood Pellet Production and Demand Globally
Recent reports from the US Energy Information Administration and the World Bioenergy Association show bioenergy production and wood pellet demand in Europe are rising sharply. As well, this week the USDA bioenergy program announced US$14.5 million in funding available through the 2014 Farm Bill. Also, an international bioenergy conference in Prince George, BC, last week…
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Focus on lumber: Norbord (T.NBD) named as a top 25 dividend stock
June 20, 2014 MADISON’S WEEKLY LUMBER MARKET UPDATE AND OVERVIEW Provided by: Madison’s Lumber Reporter www.madisonsreport.com Near-panic among North America’s lumber and panel traders was narrowly averted this week as customers came in heavily to buy solid volumes of wood and the previously-tanking futures board reversed direction absolutely, wrote Keta Kosman in Madison’s Lumber Reporter…
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Urban Tree Value
A report out this week by TD Bank valuing the trees in the City of Toronto, in Ontario, at $7 billion adds an interesting perspective to the business of assessing timber stand value. For wood products manufacturers, it has traditionally been the logs — so naturally the trees — most conducive to making dimension lumber…
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Wood Trade Globally
A wide array of data was released this week demonstrating softwood imports and exports to various regions of the world: The US imported 8.932 million cubic metres of softwood lumber between January and April 2014 according to the US Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), a 3 per cent increase over the same period last year. Canada’s…
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