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Advertise with Madison’s Reporter –> Directly Reach the Forest Products Industry!
Read more: Advertise with Madison’s Reporter –> Directly Reach the Forest Products Industry!Madison’s Lumber Reporter is a weekly newsletter detailing current US and Canadian lumber and panel prices THE PREMIERE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER! LUMBER AND PANEL COMMODITIES TRACKED WITH A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE • North American lumber and panel international cash prices updated weekly and on reader desktops every Friday • extensive coverage of Western and Eastern Spruce-Pine-Fir (SPF),…
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Washington Dept of Natural Resources March 2015 Highlights
Read more: Washington Dept of Natural Resources March 2015 HighlightsLumber and Log Prices: Lumber and log prices increased markedly in 2013 and somewhat less so in 2014. Washington log prices moved up sharply from a two-year plateau in 2013 and continued to rise in 2014. The average price for a ‘typical’ DNR log delivered to the mill reached US$591/mbf in 2014, and has averaged…
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Madison’s Interactive Web Price Graphing Tool : Beta Testing
Read more: Madison’s Interactive Web Price Graphing Tool : Beta TestingTake this limited-time opportunity to be a beta-tester! Madison’s Interactive Web Price Graphing Tool is almost finished development stage and will soon begin pre-publication sale. To access simply visit: http://mlrdemo.gobi.ca Username: portland Password: Pine2014
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Madison’s Interactive Web Price Graphing Tool : Beta Testing
Read more: Madison’s Interactive Web Price Graphing Tool : Beta TestingTake this limited-time opportunity to be a beta-tester! Madison’s Interactive Web Price Graphing Tool is almost finished development stage and will soon begin pre-publication sale. To access simply visit: http://mlrdemo.gobi.ca Username: portland Password: Pine2014
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Japan Housing Starts
Read more: Japan Housing StartsJapan’s housing starts in January were 67,713 units, a 13 per cent drop from the same month in the previous year, according to Japan Lumber Reports and Japan Lumber Journal, both Friday. Compared to January 2013, the results decreased by 2.3 per cent. The seasonally-adjusted annual rate was 864,000 units. Housing starts of owner-occupied houses…
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Alberta Forest Products 3Q 2014 Results
Read more: Alberta Forest Products 3Q 2014 ResultsValues of lumber, pulp and paper, and panelboard manufactured by Alberta Forest Products Association members totaled approximately $696 million for 3Q 2014, the agency announced March 6. The value of production was up $26 million, or 3.9 per cent, from the same period last year. In 2012 and 2013, Alberta’s forest industry averaged growth rates…
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Japan’s First CLT Plant
Read more: Japan’s First CLT PlantMeiken Industry, out of Okayama prefecture in Japan, has announced plans to acquire 40,000 square metres of property by it’s lamina joint plant and distribution warehouse, to build a cross-laminated timber manufacturin plant, according to Japan Lumber Reports Friday. Planned production for the facility is 50,000 cubic metres annually. A Maniwa biomass power plant using…
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Cascades Reports
Read more: Cascades ReportsCascades Inc, out of Kingsey Falls, QC, Friday released results for the 4Q 2014. In comparison to the same period last year, sales increased by 4 per cent, to $879 million, compared to $844 million in the 4Q 2013 due to favourable exchange rates and higher shipments that more than offset lower average selling prices…
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Early Wildfire Warnings, Canada and US
Read more: Early Wildfire Warnings, Canada and USUnusually dry weather in the north and west of the North American continent this season lead to a dauntingly early fire season. Jurisdictions and municipalities in British Columbia, Alberta, and the entire western United States have already issued fire warnings and restrictions this week. In addition, some amount of wildfires continue to burn in several…
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Sawmill Fires, British Columbia and Kentucky
Read more: Sawmill Fires, British Columbia and KentuckyOperations at the Western Forest Products sawmill in Port Alberni, which came to a halt because of a fire Tuesday night, are expected to resume later this week. Company spokesperson Amy Spencer could not say where or how the fire started. “We can’t release those details until the investigation is complete, although there was a…
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Canada Building Permits: January 2015
Read more: Canada Building Permits: January 2015The total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities fell 12.9 per cent to $6.1 billion in January, following a 6.1 per cent increase the previous month, said Statistics Canada Friday. Lower construction intentions for non-residential buildings in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario were responsible for much of the national decline. Building Permits,…
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UGA Center for Forest Business Timberland Conference 2015
Read more: UGA Center for Forest Business Timberland Conference 2015At the end of February the University of Georgia Center for Forest Business held its prestigious timberland investment conference on Amelia Island, FL, which happens every two years. Subject matter and attendance ranged from timber and lumber finance to tree breeding, from appraisers of all kinds to land investors, and everything in between. Timber-growing regions…
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Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: March 6 ’15
Read more: Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: March 6 ’15KD Fir Ordeal Dry fir traders observed another indeterminate week, as they waited for some constancy to appear in this wonky market. Pricing was a day-to-day, producer-to-producer affair. Even though demand in many key regions was nonexistent, mills will likely continue to produce more than necessary simply because logs are cheap and readily available. Following…
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Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: March 6 ’15
Read more: Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: March 6 ’15KD Fir Ordeal Dry fir traders observed another indeterminate week, as they waited for some constancy to appear in this wonky market. Pricing was a day-to-day, producer-to-producer affair. Even though demand in many key regions was nonexistent, mills will likely continue to produce more than necessary simply because logs are cheap and readily available. Following…
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Global Pulp Market Update
Read more: Global Pulp Market UpdateMark Wilde, formerly of Deutsche Bank, now Packaging & Forest Products Analyst at BMO Capital Markets, this week held a conference call on the global pulp market with fuest speaker Brian McClay, principal at Brian McClay & Associates out of Montreal, QC. This week Mark Wilde, formerly of Deutsche Bank, now Packaging & Forest Products…
