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Oregon Log vs Lumber Exports
Read more: Oregon Log vs Lumber ExportsThe Port of Newport on the Oregon coast has finished a major, award-winning renovation of the site, and is negotiating with several timber companies that want to use the terminal to export logs to Asia just as Hampton Affiliates have been investing in the expertise to cultivate a customer base in China and produce lumber…
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Federal Railway Order
Read more: Federal Railway OrderThe federal government says it will introduce an order-in-council forcing railways to move a minimum amount of grain each week, according to CBC Friday morning. Transport Minister Lisa Raitt says that minimum will be set at 500,000 tonnes, which works out to 5,500 grain cars each for Canadian National and Canadian Pacific. She says there…
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US New Home Sales
Read more: US New Home SalesNew home sales in January, as estimated by the US Census Bureau and HUD Thursday, were up 9.6 per cent over the December pace, coming in at 468,000 seasonally adjusted annualized rate. This pace is 2.2 per cent higher than the January 2013 measure. The month-supply measure of inventory fell to 4.7, with the count…
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Resolute FP Quebec Timber Deal
Read more: Resolute FP Quebec Timber DealResolute Forest Products February 28 confirmed the signature of a framework agreement with the Quebec government and explained the measures found in the agreement. The agreement includes measures for renewal of water power leases for certain generating stations in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region as well as consolidation of some of the company’s Quebec facilities. The framework…
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Washington State Invests in Mill
Read more: Washington State Invests in MillThe governor of Washington State announced Friday a US$5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County’s last sawmill to reopen, according to SeattlePi Friday. Speaking at a news conference at a wood products mill in White City, Gov. John Kitzhaber said the funding helps spread…
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Canfor Sells
Read more: Canfor SellsCanfor Corp said this week it has an agreement to sell the Daaquam sawmill in Saint-Just-de-Bretenières, QC in a deal worth $25 million. The deal with Groupe Lebel and others is expected to close by the end of March, Canfor said in a release on Friday. The Daaquam mill produced 120 million board feet of…
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North American Freight
Read more: North American FreightFROM THE MARCH 07 ISSUE OF MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER: Canada’s prairie grain farmers have been watching the quality and value of their crops decline over the last few months in fields or in storage due to a rail transportation bottleneck. The situation got so dire this week in Vancouver, BC, that Federal Minister of Transport…
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Lumber News Archives: July 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: July 2010Nanocrystalline Cellulose ; Canada to Collect Remaining Additional Duty ; Housing Starts US; West Fraser, Interfor, Norbord Report 2Q Results ; CN Rail Reports ; Export Demand ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Canadian Housing Starts ; Japan Housing Starts ; Canfor Announces ; Paper and Pulp Industry ; STUDS Asia Exports ; US Export Growth…
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Lumber News Archives: June 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: June 2010North American Home Building, Sales, and Prices ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Western Forest Products’ Ladysmith Mill ; Tembec Shares Soar on Outlook ; Japan’s Wood-Framed Building Promotion ; TimberWest Forest Announces ; 2010 Forest Products Annual Symposium ; Kiln Dried Western Fir Shaken ; RBC Economics’ Latest Economic Outlook Report ; Japan Housing Starts…
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Lumber News Archives: May 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: May 2010China Trade ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; US Housing Starts ; West Fraser’s Hinton, AB, Pulp Mill Funding ; PwC Forestry and Paper Conference ; Softwood Export Tax ; WSCA Call Out ; Alberta Wildfire ; Japan Housing Starts ; North American Economic Data ; Canfor Restarts Ontario Forest Tenure Reform ; Madison’s Timber Preview…
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Lumber News Archives: Apr 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Apr 2010US Non-Residential Construction ; Madison’s Live Online Lumber Producer Listings ; Japan Timber Supply and Demand Forecast ; Housing Starts, Canada ; US Housing Starts ; BC’s New Timber Pricing Policy ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; US Softwood Lumber Tax ; Canada Building Permits ; Japan Housing Starts Forest Fire Season ; Lumber Market Forecast…
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Lumber News Archives: Mar 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Mar 2010US Infrastructure Spending ; US Housing Starts ; UBC Aiming to Buy Western Forest Products Land ; Japan’s Log Use ;Chilean Radiata Pine ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Japan Housing Starts ; January Housing Starts, Canada ; Steelworkers Ratify Canfor Deal ; Merritt Pellet Mill Grand OpeningTaller Wood Framed Buildings ; Madison’s Live Online Lumber…
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Lumber News Archives: Feb 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Feb 2010Lumber Demand 2009 ; Calling All Canadian Lumber, Panel and Pulp Producers . . . ; US Housing Starts ; Bioenergy Collaboration ; Maritime Lumber Bureau Responds ;Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Canadian Housing Starts and Trade Figures ; Japan Housing Starts and 2009 Lumber Statistics ; Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports…
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Lumber News Archives: Jan 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Jan 2010TLA 67th AGM ; US Housing Starts ; Japan Housing Starts ; Log and Lumber Exports to Japan British Columbia’s Current Forest Management Practices ; US Biomass Collection Funding ; Canadian Housing Starts ; New Forestry Licensing and Pricing Models in BC ; Transportation and the Forest Industry ; Madison’s Live Online Lumber Producer Listings…
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Lumber News Archives: Dec 2009
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Dec 2009Politics and the Forest Industry ; Madison’s Holiday Break ; US Housing and Real Estate ; Chetwynd Sawmill and Pulp Mill Restarts ; Wood Products 2010 ; Weyerhaeuser Converts ;Ainsworth’s Non-Core Sale Forestry Fourth Quarter Forecast ; Madison’s Mill Watch ; Canadian Housing Starts ; Japan Housing Starts ; Canadian Trade Figures ; Labour Progress…
