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MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER YEAR-END 2014 LUMBER MARKET COMMENT:
Read more: MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER YEAR-END 2014 LUMBER MARKET COMMENT:Improving on stability begun last year for North America’s forest products manufacturers, 2014 ended on a positive note. Volumes and values of dimension and framing lumber shipped from Canada to the US for the first ten months of this year equalled that for full-year 2013. Data out of Statistics Canada December 29 shows lumber exported…
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MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER YEAR-END 2014 LUMBER MARKET COMMENT:
Read more: MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER YEAR-END 2014 LUMBER MARKET COMMENT:Improving on stability begun last year for North America’s forest products manufacturers, 2014 ended on a positive note. Volumes and values of dimension and framing lumber shipped from Canada to the US for the first ten months of this year equalled that for full-year 2013. Data out of Statistics Canada December 29 shows lumber exported…
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Interfor Buys Four US Sawmills
Read more: Interfor Buys Four US SawmillsInterfor buys four mills, raising bet on U.S. lumber production to hedge against B.C. supply constraints By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun December 22, 2014 Madison’s Lumber Reporter: “B.C. mills are well stocked in the immediate term, according to Keta Kosman, publisher of the industry newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter, with just some specialty timber — such…
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Interfor Buys Four US Sawmills
Read more: Interfor Buys Four US SawmillsInterfor buys four mills, raising bet on U.S. lumber production to hedge against B.C. supply constraints By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun December 22, 2014 Madison’s Lumber Reporter: “B.C. mills are well stocked in the immediate term, according to Keta Kosman, publisher of the industry newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter, with just some specialty timber — such…
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Seasons Greetings from Madison’s !
Read more: Seasons Greetings from Madison’s !All of us here at your Madison’s Lumber Reporter extend our most sincere holiday greetings, and Best Wishes for the New Year, to our valued subscribers, sources, and other contacts. In keeping with tradition started in 1952 by Peter Madison, we are taking our annual holiday season break however this year are extending that by…
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Seasons Greetings from Madison’s !
Read more: Seasons Greetings from Madison’s !All of us here at your Madison’s Lumber Reporter extend our most sincere holiday greetings, and Best Wishes for the New Year, to our valued subscribers, sources, and other contacts. In keeping with tradition started in 1952 by Peter Madison, we are taking our annual holiday season break however this year are extending that by…
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North American Lumber & Panel Markets and Outlook for 2015: FEA
Read more: North American Lumber & Panel Markets and Outlook for 2015: FEAThis week BMO Capital Markets Packaging & Forest Products Analyst Mark Wilde (formerly of Deutsche Bank) held a conference call for an update on North American Lumber & Panel Markets and Outlook for 2015 with analysts from Forest Economic Advisors ( www.getfea.com ).
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Two Sawmill Worker Fatalities
Read more: Two Sawmill Worker FatalitiesThe body of a truck driver who disappeared while delivering wood chips to a Catalyst Paper Mill in Crofton, BC, this week has been found in a storage container at that facility, according to Canadian Press Friday. The BC Coroners Service says workers at the Catalyst Paper Mill couldn’t find 66-year-old Perry Thomas about a…
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Housing Starts, Canada
Read more: Housing Starts, CanadaA report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp Monday showed the seasonally adjusted annualized rate of Canadian housing starts rose to 195,620 units in November, from 183,659 in October. Canada Housing Starts Multiple-unit housing starts starts in urban areas rose 13.6 per cent, to 112,583, reversing most of the prior month’s decline. Single-family starts…
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New Brunswick Forestry Agreements
Read more: New Brunswick Forestry AgreementsNew Brunswick’s natural resources minister Thursday released the province’s forestry agreements, which give forest companies access to more Crown land and are the result of a 10-year plan announced in March. The plan will allow forestry companies to harvest an additional 660,000 cubic metres of softwood a year – a hike of 20 per cent.…
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More Sawmill Fires
Read more: More Sawmill FiresA blaze broke out around 4:30 pm Thursday at Sexton Lumber in Bloomfield, NL, on the Bonavista Peninsula. The fire was in the dried bark/sawdust holding building on the outside edge of the property, and the sawmill, kiln, planer mill, drying plant, office, and inventory sections were all undamaged. However the company lost a complete…
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Norbord, Ainsworth to Merge
Read more: Norbord, Ainsworth to MergeTwo Canadian wood product companies — Norbord Inc. and Ainsworth Lumber Corp. — plan to combine their businesses through a $759-million deal to create one of the world’s largest producers of oriented strand board. Norbord Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. will create a global wood products giant with a market capitalization of…
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Log Exports (CA, US) Sept 2014, Lumber Prices Dec 2014
Read more: Log Exports (CA, US) Sept 2014, Lumber Prices Dec 2014Log Exports (CA, US) Sept 2014, Lumber Prices Dec 2014 from Madison’s Lumber Reporter Canada Softwood Log Exports VALUES 2010 to Sept 2014. USA Softwood Log Exports VALUES 2010 to Sept 2014. Construction Framing Dimension Lumber Price Comparison, North America December 2013 to 2014. Canadian Forest Products Company Shares Dec 2012 to 2014.
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Log Exports (CA, US) Sept 2014, Lumber Prices Dec 2014
Read more: Log Exports (CA, US) Sept 2014, Lumber Prices Dec 2014Log Exports (CA, US) Sept 2014, Lumber Prices Dec 2014 from Madison’s Lumber Reporter Canada Softwood Log Exports VALUES 2010 to Sept 2014. USA Softwood Log Exports VALUES 2010 to Sept 2014. Construction Framing Dimension Lumber Price Comparison, North America December 2013 to 2014. Canadian Forest Products Company Shares Dec 2012 to 2014.
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North American Railroad Shipper Survey
Read more: North American Railroad Shipper SurveyRBC Dominion Securities this week released its RBC Compass, 2015 North American Railroad Shipper Survey. The survey taps into the views of the Class 1 railroads’ top customers, with key findings focusing on shippers’ expectations for 2015 regarding: the direction of rail rates; volume growth; and service performance. This year, the survey also solicited shippers’…
