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Lumber News Archives: Dec 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Dec 2010BC’s Mid-Term Timber Supply ; China Demolishes ; Pricewaterhouse Coopers Report ; Japan Housing Starts ; Housing Starts, Canada ; BC State of the Forest ; AbitibiBowater Resumes Trading Structural Changes ; Madison’s Timber Preview-Lumber Liquidators ; KD Fir Log and Lumber Demand ; Massive Forest Fire, Israel ; Nova Scotia Changes to Forest Management…
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Lumber News Archives: Nov 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Nov 2010Canadian Wood Export ; Madison’s Timber Preview – Restructuring Completed ; US Housing Starts ; Consultation Period Expires ; Steelworkers Respond to Interior Forest Labour ; AFPA 3rd Quarter Wood Building Promotion ; Cargo and Reload; Canadian Housing Starts ; Mountain Pine Beetle Fight Progress in Alberta ; Japan Housing StartsNorth American Transportation ; Madison’s…
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Lumber News Archives: Oct 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Oct 2010Biomass Fuel ; Canadian Rail Problems ; US Mortgages, Continued Trouble ; USDA referendum ; Nova Scotia Biomass Funding ; More Funds from Green Transformation Program ; WFP Another CEO Change ; US Requests Canadian Softwood Lumber Consultation ; Log Prices and Timberland Values ; Madison’s Timber Preview: US Foreclosure Freeze ; Housing Starts, Canada…
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Lumber News Archives: September 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: September 2010Latest Data on North American Lumber Production ; Green Energy Plan, Ontario ; California Wildfires State of Emergency ; Pine-Beetle Built College ; Spelter Joins FEA ; Weyerhaeuser Lays Off ; Canadian Lumber Exports ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; Housing Starts, Canada ; Japan Housing Starts ; US Wildfires ; 200 BC Forest Workers Win…
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Lumber News Archives: Aug 2010
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Aug 2010US Real Estate ; BC Wildfires Progress ; US Housing Starts Up; Housing Starts Canada ; USW & CONIFER Bargain Tentative Deal ; Wood Imports, China ; A Look at Paper ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; US Real Estate ; More Wildfires ; Japan Housing Starts ; Global Trade in Softwood Logs ; The Question…
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Canadian National Won’t Move Lumber Until Backlog Clears
Read more: Canadian National Won’t Move Lumber Until Backlog Clears Note – the embargo refers to shipments to the west coast http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303546204579435050770568642?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303546204579435050770568642.html Canadian National Won’t Move Lumber Until Backlog Clears Railway’s Notice Comes as Port Strike Worsens Delays Caused by Railcar Shortage Canadian National Railway Co. told British Columbia wood and pulp producers it will stop moving products to Pacific Coast loading facilities until a…
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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…
