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Lumber News Archives: Sep 2012
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Sep 2012India Wood Products ; US Government to Buy Mortgages ; Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Report ; Housing Starts, Canada and Japan Wooden Skyscrapers ; Cedar Mill Fire: Electrical ; Millar Western to Build Biogas Power Generator ; Industrial Index Canada, Purchasing Managers’ Index US ; FPAC Announces Timber Supply Review Committee ; US Housing Starts,…
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Lumber News Archives: Aug 2012
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Aug 2012Lumber Tax Proposal ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Railroad Investment, More Rail Cars ; Western Forest Products Mill Fire, Land Transfer ; US Wildfires ; Financial Results Design Values ; Eacom to Rebuilt Timmins Mill ; More Wildfires ; Financial Results ; NB Mill to Reopen ; Sawmill Fire Glossy Magazine Sales ; Madison’s Timber…
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Lumber News Archives: July 2012
Read more: Lumber News Archives: July 2012BC Resource Roads ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Canadian Housing Starts ; Housing Starts, Japan ; Wildfires ; Sawmill Contractor Dies Oregon Timber Drama ; BC Minister of Forests Responds ; Terrace Bay Pulp Sold ; WorkSafeBC Expands Safety Order ; City of Williams Lake Timber Supply Recommendations ; FPB Cites Vancouver Island Firms ;…
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US Home Asking Prices
Read more: US Home Asking PricesAsking prices for US homes were up 10 per cent year-over-year in March, said Trulia Thursday. Despite declining investor purchases and more inventory coming onto the market, asking home prices continued to rise at the start of the spring housing season. Month-over-month, asking prices rose 1.2 per cent nationally in March 2014, seasonally adjusted. Quarter-over-quarter,…
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Canada Building Permits
Read more: Canada Building PermitsCanadian municipalities issued building permits worth $6.1 billion in February, down 11.6 per cent from January, said Statistics Canada Tuesday. This decrease followed an 8.1 per cent gain the previous month and was mainly driven by lower construction intentions for multi-family dwellings in all provinces. Construction intentions for residential buildings declined 21.0% to $3.6 billion,…
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Global Lumber Trade
Read more: Global Lumber TradeThere have been some fascinating changes in the movement of hardwood lumber globally this year, partially due to EUTR restrictions on illegally harvested timber imports having come into effect in Europe a year ago. This week data became available for North American softwood lumber exports. Also that for imports of softwood lumber into consuming regions,…
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Japan Housing Starts
Read more: Japan Housing StartsFebruary housing starts in Japan totalled 69,689 units, a 1 per cent increase over February last year and a consecutive 18-month improvement, said the Japan Lumber Reports Friday. Seasonally-adjusted starts were 919,000 units, a 6 per cent decrease over January. Housing Starts, Japan Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation commented that the stable economic…
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Southwide Timber Prices – January/February 2014
Read more: Southwide Timber Prices – January/February 2014While timber prices in the East-South US were a bit more volatile than average prices across the South, prices were fairly stable overall, said Forest2Markt March 31. The combination of continued wet and severe winter weather in areas of the US South is primarily responsible for the price fluctuations between regions. Pine sawtimber prices saw…
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Hampton Issued Safety Fine
Read more: Hampton Issued Safety FineThe owners of the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake, BC, were hit with a fine of nearly $1 million by WorkSafeBC for the fatal explosion at the mill in 2012. The fine comes after the Criminal Justice Branch announced it wasn’t proceeding with criminal charges against the owners because of mistakes made by…
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US Residential Construction Employement
Read more: US Residential Construction EmployementThere was solid job growth for home builders and remodelers in March, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday. The residential construction industry added 9,100 jobs for the month on a seasonally adjusted basis, 3,100 working for builders and 6,000 residential specialty trade contractors. Construction Employment, US Total consgtruction industry employment…
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Japan Timber Imports 2013
Read more: Japan Timber Imports 2013Japan’s Foreign Timber General Supply and Demand Liaison Conference has released data on the amount of timber and lumber imported into that country, according to the Japan Lumber Journal this week. Volumes of foreign logs received in 2013 was 4,528,434 m3, a 3.6 per cent increase compared to the previous year, and the amount of…
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BC Ministry of Forests Tenure Reform
Read more: BC Ministry of Forests Tenure ReformForests Minister Steve Thomson says the Liberal government is taking another shot at giving forest companies more rights to control British Columbia’s public forest lands, but he rejects criticism that the plan would privatize provincial forests. The move could dramatically change the way public forests are managed by granting lumber companies tenure rights, or logging…
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Universal Acquires
Read more: Universal AcquiresUniversal Forest Products has been on a buying spree in the past two weeks, acquiring stakes in saw mill, lumber processing and manufacturing businesses in North Carolina and Texas. On March 31 the company announced the acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in Upshur Forest Products, based in Dallas, TX, and with sawmill operations…
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West Fraser Acquires
Read more: West Fraser AcquiresWest Fraser Timber, out of Vancouver, BC, continues to grow its lumber business in the US south with news this week of its agreement to purchase Bibler Brothers Lumber’s sawmill and lumber manufacturing operations in Russellville, AR. Located near West Fraser’s newly acquired mill in Mansfield, Bibler Brothers produced approximately 136 million board feet of…
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Genetically Modified Poplar
Read more: Genetically Modified PoplarWhat began 20 years ago as an innovation to improve paper industry processes and dairy forage digestibility may now open the door to a much more energy- and cost-efficient way to convert biomass into fuel. A collaboration between researchers at the University of British Columbia, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Michigan State University, the breakthrough…
