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Reduced Manufacturing Volumes Push Lumber Prices Up
Despite somewhat soft demand, as many customers weren’t sure where prices were going so waited to buy, lumber prices popped up again in mid-February. This due mostly to ongoing capacity restrictions, especially in the important timber supply basket of British Columbia. As the spring building season fast approaches, end-users will not be able to wait…
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US Housing Starts JULY & Softwood Lumber Prices AUGUST: 2021
After a healthy increase in June, US total housing starts for July 2021 fell by -7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.534 million. For July 2021, total residential starts in the US increased by +6% from the same month one year ago, when it was 1.048 million. US Housing Total and 1-Unit Starts…
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Leading Information Providers To Offer Comprehensive Sawmill Directory
Madison’s Lumber Reporter and Blue Book Services have entered an agreement to combine Madison’s Online Lumber Directory data with the Lumber Blue Book online listings, forming the sawmill industry’s most comprehensive information database of lumber companies in the USA and Canada. The combined dataset will contain over 23,000 headquarter listings and over 8,000 branch listings,…
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Madison’s Canadian Sawmill Listings Directory Update *coming soon*
Madison’s Lumber Reporter is delighted to announce we are almost finished work on the next update to our fabulous online Madison’s Canadian Sawmill Listings Directory! The same excellent data customers have become used to, fully updated in 2Q 2021 to capture the very latest changes to all 1,649 wood processing facilities and operations across Canada.…
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US Home Sales Dec and Full-Year 2020 and Softwood Lumber Prices Jan 2021
Benchmark Softwood Lumber Prices Jan 2021 & US NEW Home Sales Dec 2020 New home sales in the US increased +1.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 842,000 units last month, said the latest data released by the US Commerce Department. November’s sales pace was revised down to 829,000 units from the previously reported…
