Category: Weekly Softwood Lumber Blog

West Fraser in Quesnel, BC, will be eliminating a shift at its sawmill, said MyPrinceGeorgeNow Wednesday. The company says it will permanently curtail approximately 300 million board feet of combined production at its Fraser Lake, BC, and Quesnel sawmills. A total of 75 employees will be impacted in Quesnel, over 1Q and 2Q 2019, although…

CoreLogic® Thursday released the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI™) and HPI Forecast™ for September 2018, which shows US home prices rose both year over year and month over month. Home prices increased nationally by 5.6 percent year over year from September 2017. On a month-over-month basis, prices increased by 0.4 per cent in September 2018.…

The latest data, released by Statistics Canada Thursday, shows lumber production in Canada fell -1.5 per cent in January to August 2018 compared to one year earlier, with sawmills producing 50,389 thousand cubic metres of lumber, compared to 51,125 thousand cubic metres for the first eight months of 2017. In separate data released by Statistics Canada also…

A topsy-turvey North American softwood lumber market righted itself somewhat last week even as large numbers of lumber traders descended on Chicago, IL, for the annual North American Wholesale Lumbermen’s Association (NAWLA) convention. Scuttlebutt from that important event is that the Canadians were most interested in exports to Asia, especially China. Prices on most construction…

North America softwood lumber and panel current and recent historical prices trend: 2-month bar charts: