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Lumber News Archives: July 2008
Read more: Lumber News Archives: July 2008Canfor’s Prince George Plywood Plant, Lumber Transportation on the Rails, European Timber Imports, PwC Annual Forest Industry Report, BioFuel From Wood Residue, First Nations Strike Lumber Deals in China, BC’s New Forest Minister, The New Business of Lumber, Softwood Pulp Canfor Will Not Rebuild Prince George Plywood Plant After a financial review and a look…
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Lumber News Archives: Oct 2008
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Oct 2008Mountain Pine Beetle, Mackenzie Pulp Mill Freeze, US Existing Home Sales, Russian Log Export Ban, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., European Trade with Canada, Sales Closures Cancellations, Global Mortgage Buyouts, Lumber Industry Investment, Mackenzie Pulp Mill Stalled, Sawmill and Pulp Mill Curtailments, The Business of Credit Mountain Pine Beetle A new education package for BC secondary students…
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Lumber News Archives: Sept 2008
Read more: Lumber News Archives: Sept 2008BioFuels, Japanese Earthquake Test, Chinese Wood Framed Home Building, Mackenzie Pulp Mill, Pine Beetle Money, Bio-Energy Money, Investing in Forestry, Global Pulp & Newsprint, Conifex Inc’s. Future Plans, Nanaimo Forest Products Meets Deadline, US Forest Products Sector, Japanese Spruce Imports, Tembec Curtails Pulp Facilities BioFuels In just the few short months since Madison’s wrote about…
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Madison’s Lumber News Archives: Aug 2008
Read more: Madison’s Lumber News Archives: Aug 2008Russian Timber Imports, Wood Chip Demand, AbitibiBowater Production Cuts, US Lumber Imports, Pope & Talbot’s Mackenzie Pulp Mill Sold, JD Irving Mill Closures, Canadian Timberland Development in China, Forestry Equipment Suppliers, TimberWest Land Sale, US Mortgage Issues Russian Timber Imports Russian Timber Imports News of the proposed Russian 80 per cent export tax on raw…
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Lumber Reporter Archives: April 2008
Read more: Lumber Reporter Archives: April 2008Mountain Pine Beetle – Research and Funding Progress; Canadian Softwood Lumber “Surcharge” ; Canadian Housing Starts; Pulp, Paper and Newsprint; Mountain Pine Beetle, NAFTA Speculation, Timberland Investment, Canada Wood Export Initiative, Bio Fuels, Wood Pellets Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality in Alberta While the pine beetle infestation in British Columbia can only be left to run…
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Canada’s Forest Inventory
Read more: Canada’s Forest InventoryOn February 11, 2013 NASA launched the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite, and 100 days later transferred operational control to the US Geological Survey. Landsat 8 is beaming 400 photos back to Earth per day, having reached its final altitude of 438 miles (705 kilometres) in April. Enhanced Landsat 8 data have quickly found their way…
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Canada Sawmill Production : Dec 2013
Read more: Canada Sawmill Production : Dec 2013Lumber production by Canadian sawmills decreased 14.8 per cent from November, to 4,151.3 thousand cubic metres in December, according to Statistics Canada Friday. Compared with December 2012, lumber production increased 5.8 per cent. Sawmills shipped 3,912.2 thousand cubic metres of lumber in December, down 14.7 per cent from November. Elsewhere, total Canadian wood product 2012…
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US House Prices, Indeces
Read more: US House Prices, IndecesDemand Institute, a nonprofit think tank operated by The Conference Board and Nielsen released a report, “A Tale of 2000 Cities”, Wednesday which found that, of the 50 largest US metropolitan areas where housing prices are expected to appreciate between 2012 and 2018, the top five will see rises on average of 32 per cent,…
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Russian Timber Exports to Japan : 2013
Read more: Russian Timber Exports to Japan : 2013The arrival of Russian logs and lumber products to Japan in 2013 was calculated, according to Japan Lumber Journal Friday. The arrival of logs was 228,053 cubic metres, down by 16.4 per cent from the previous year. The arrival of spruce and fir was about the same as the previous year. However, the arrival of…
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17th Annual Global CEO Survey
Read more: 17th Annual Global CEO SurveySector Snapshot: Forest, Paper & Packaging FPP sector CEOs have been less confident about short term growth for several years; this year that’s especially true when it comes to prospects for the industry, said the PwC Global CEO Survey, released Thursday. Only about half, 54 per cent, expect to see growth, compared to 68 per…
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USW – West Fraser Deal Ratified
Read more: USW – West Fraser Deal RatifiedUnited Steelworkers members employed at five West Fraser operations in the BC northern interior have ratified a five-year deal, the union announced Friday. Members at Fraser Lake Sawmill, Houston Forest Products, 100 Mile House Lumber, Quesnel Plywood, and Williams Lake Plywood have each voted in favour of the deal and when combined provided an overall…
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Domtar Declares . . .
Read more: Domtar Declares . . .Domtar Corporation, also based in Montreal, announced Thursday that its Board of Directors has approved its fourth quarterly dividend for the 2013 fiscal year on its common stock and on Domtar (Canada) Paper Inc. exchangeable shares. The dividend of US$0.55 per share is payable on April 15, 2014 to stockholders of record on March 14,…
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Resolute Settles
Read more: Resolute SettlesResolute Forest Products, out of Montreal, QC, Monday announced a five-year renewal of the master collective agreement covering four unionized US pulp and paper mills. Unionized employees voted overwhelmingly to ratify the agreement at mills in Augusta, GA; Calhoun, TN; Catawba, SC; and Coosa Pines, AL, effective as of February 14, 2014. The agreement covers…
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Housing Starts, Sales : US
Read more: Housing Starts, Sales : USGroundbreaking on new US homes dropped 16 per cent in January compared to December, and dipped 2 per cent lower than their level one year earlier, data released by the US government Friday shows. The decrease had been widely expected, thanks to January’s cold and stormy weather. New home starts in January were at an…
