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US Producer Prices: June
Read more: US Producer Prices: JuneThe US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Wednesday released the Producer Price Indexes (PPI) for June. Inflation in prices received by producers rose 0.4 per cent in June after a 0.5 per cent increase in May. The increase was based on rising prices for both goods (0.7 per cent) and services (0.3 per cent). Within…
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Canada Manufacturing Survey: May
Read more: Canada Manufacturing Survey: MayManufacturing sales in Canada edged up 0.1 per cent to $49.9 billion in May, while constant dollar sales fell 0.5 per cent, indicating a lower volume of goods sold, said Statistics Canada Wednesday. The slight increase in current dollar sales was the second gain in 2015. Sales were up in 6 out of 21 industries,…
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Great Lakes Forestry Funding
Read more: Great Lakes Forestry FundingThe Government of Canada announced Tuesday $5-million in new funding for Natural Resources Canada’s Great Lakes Forestry Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, ON. The funding will be used for energy-efficiency and infrastructure upgrades to the Centre, which conducts research on sustainable forest management, biological control of forest pests and diseases, forest productivity and forest fire…
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Timber Allocation: Québec
Read more: Timber Allocation: QuébecA forestry agreement signed Monday halts a $180-million Cree lawsuit against the Quebec government. The agreement between the Quebec government and the Grand Council of the Crees calls for co-management of forestry cutting and protection of woodland caribou in northern Quebec. It establishes more than 9,000 square kilometres in new protected areas where no forestry…
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Thirteen Storey Timber Tower: Québec
Read more: Thirteen Storey Timber Tower: QuébecQuébec City’s Pointe-aux-Lievres eco-district is getting a 13-storey tower constructed mostly of cross laminated timber (CLT), with 12 storeys of apartments on top of a concrete podium, according to the Deccan Herald July 10. The condominium building, designed by Yvan Blouin, is being marketed as Origine.Origine is being built by Nordic Structures, who are of…
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Oregon Timber Harvest: 2014
Read more: Oregon Timber Harvest: 2014Oregon’s timber harvest decreased slightly last year, ending a four-year run of gains that began after the Great Recession, the state Department of Forestry said Wednesday. The 4.13 billion board feet harvested in 2014 represents a 1.7 per cent decline from the year before. It was, however, the second consecutive year of more than 4…
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Sawmill Fires
Read more: Sawmill FiresFire crews in Maple Ridge, BC, Friday morning knocked down an early morning fire at the Southcoast Reman lumber mill. Flames, sparks and smoke could be seen spitting out of a conveyor belt leading to the dust collection equipment. Maple Ridge firefighters used a ladder-mounted hose to extinguish most of the flames from above. As…
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North America Timber Update and Forecast
Read more: North America Timber Update and ForecastThe latest data and analyses for North America timber usage is contradictory enough without a constantly changing landscape subject to politics and evolving title rights. Please see Page 7 for what happened in Québec this week with First Nations resource rights. Conference Board of Canada Otherwise, the Conference Board of Canada this week released a…
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North America Log and Lumber Markets
Read more: North America Log and Lumber MarketsA spurt of talk in the past few days about lumber market recovery / not yet recovery prompted Madison’s to do a Round Up Update for North American log and lumber data: Said the Vancouver Sun Tuesday, “The key commodity price for 1,000 board feet of western spruce, pine or fir 2X4s, as reported by…
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Canada Housing Starts: June 2015
Read more: Canada Housing Starts: June 2015Canada’s June housing starts rose more than expected from May to an 11-month high. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts rose to 202,818 in June, compared to the downwardly revised 196,981 units in May, according to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation Thursday. Home Building and Permits, Canada Urban starts largely drove the…
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US House Price Index
Read more: US House Price IndexThis CoreLogic House Price Index report is for May. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for April. The CoreLogic HPI is a three month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA). CoreLogic Reports National Homes Prices Rose by 6.3 Percent Year Over Year in May 2015 CoreLogic® … Tuesday released its May 2015 CoreLogic…
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Architecture Billing Index, US : May 2015
Read more: Architecture Billing Index, US : May 2015After experiencing relatively soft business conditions for much of the past winter and spring, many architecture firms saw signs of improvement in May. The AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) increased by more than three points to a score of 51.9 in May, where any score over 50 indicates billings growth. As a positive sign of…
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Housing Starts, Japan: May 2015
Read more: Housing Starts, Japan: May 2015Total housing starts in Japan for May were 71,720 unit, 5.8 per cent more than May last year, according to the Japan Lumber Reports Friday. On a seasonally adjusted basis Japan housing starts in May were 911,000 units, 0.2 per cent less than April. Japan Housing Starts Japan housing starts for the first five months…
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US Home New and Existing Sales: May and June 2105
Read more: US Home New and Existing Sales: May and June 2105The rate of new single-family home sales, as estimated by the Census Bureau Wednesday, improved to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 546,000 in May, the fastest pace in seven years and a 2.2 per cent increase over April. Meanwhile the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index increased for the fifth straight…
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Canada Lumber Production at Sawmills: April 2015
Read more: Canada Lumber Production at Sawmills: April 2015Compared with April 2014, Canadian lumber production rose by 6.9 per cent, to 5,617 thousand cubic metres. Lumber production by sawmills in Canada decreased 0.7 per cent from March, said Statistics Canada Thursday. Sawmills shipped 5,434 thousand cubic metres of lumber in April, down 0.9 per cent from March.
