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Lumber News Archives: Feb 2013
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Feb 2013North American Transportation ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Japan-Russia Annual Timber Conference ; Quarterly, Year-End Results ; West Fraser Announces ; Oregon Timber ; BC Forest Practices Board Releases; Canada Housing Starts ; Housing Starts, Japan ; US House Prices, Mortgage Lawsuit; CanBio Announces; Biomass Production ; Madison’s Timber Preview; Quarterly, Annual Results, Norbord OSB…
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Lumber News Archives: Jan 2013
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Jan 2013Truck Logger AGM 2013 : Part I ; BC Government Announces; US Housing Starts ; Dust and Sawmill Safety; Housing Starts, Japan ; US Factory Output ; Ontario State of the Forests Report ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Canfor to Invest in South Carolina Mill ; Two Sawmill Fires, One Stabbing ; BC Seeks Firefighters…
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Lumber News Archives: Dec 2012
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Dec 2012Port Work Stoppage ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; PLIB Awarded ; Quesnel Mid-Term Timber Supply Recalculated ; Japan CLT Shake Test ; California Passes Lumber Tax Law ; Sawmill Electrical Fire ; Howe Sound Strike Vote Canadian Bioenergy Association 2012 ; Dust Safety Data Referred to Crown Counsel ; BC Hydro Right of Way Timber…
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Lumber News Archives: Nov 2012
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Nov 2012US Home Building, Financing ; Canadian Apartment Construction Price Index ; US Industrial Production, Canada Manufacturing ; Sawmill Explosion ; BC Forest Products’ Exports to Jump 2013 Projections ; Madison’s Timber Preview; Canada Housing Starts, Permits ; Housing Starts, Japan; Electrical Right-of-Way Increases Slash and Burn ; CIC Invests Supply Chain Problems; Post-Tropical Storm Sandy…
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Lumber News Archives: Oct 2012
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Oct 2012State of the World’s Forests ; US Housing Starts ; Home Sales, US ; Canadian Unions Merge ; Lecours Lumber Closed ; Interfor Appoints ; Fortress Appoints BC Provincial Election ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Madison’s Investment Rx ; Housing Starts, Canada ; Japan Housing Starts ; US Producer Price Index ; WFP to Upgrade…
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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…
