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Great Canadian Rail Fiasco 2017 – July ’18
Read more: Great Canadian Rail Fiasco 2017 – July ’18Monumentally-frustrated North American forest operators were astonished last week to receive word from a major Canadian railroad that the egregious logistics and supply chain problems of last winter will not be unwound until July. Those Canadian sawmill facilities which are at the mercy of one or the other of the two Canadian rail operators have…
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North American Railway Difficulties
Read more: North American Railway DifficultiesYet another transportation issue bombshell hit the North American forest industry last week in the form of a potential looming labour disruption in Canada. Wednesday reported the Manitoba Co-operator that members of the Teamsters and IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) unions were set to strike CP Rail April 21, but postponed it until union…
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Terrace, BC, To Get Wood Pellet Plant
Read more: Terrace, BC, To Get Wood Pellet PlantA Terrace-based pellet plant may soon become a reality as Skeena Sawmills moves forward on its plans to begin construction this summer, said the Terrace Standard Tuesday. The northern British Columbia mill is reserving its official announcement on the estimated $20-million pellet plant until construction starts, but operations vice-president Roger Keery has confirmed the project…
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US Construction Employment, Job Openings: March 2018
Read more: US Construction Employment, Job Openings: March 2018The count of unfilled jobs in the US construction sector declined in February, but remains higher than a year ago. According to the latest BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) and NAHB analysis, the number of open construction sector jobs came in at 196,000 in February. The post-recession high count of open, unfilled…
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Get Accurate Data for Your Forestry Investment Needs Every Week …
Read more: Get Accurate Data for Your Forestry Investment Needs Every Week …THE PLOT THICKENS …. both publications competitive to Madison’s Lumber Reporter have now adjusted their Western Spruce Pine Fir KD 2×4 R/L dimension framing construction softwood lumber prices to match what we said all along. Continue below to read more: Nothing beats the value of accurate data …. don’t go with the wrong guys, go…
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US Housing Starts, Construction Permits: March 2018
Read more: US Housing Starts, Construction Permits: March 2018An encouraging headline Wednesday by NAHB Eye on Housing, “Most US States Record YTD Single-Family Permits Growth in February 2018” provides only more evidence that US home building and real estate business have come roaring back since the US housing starts crash of September 2006. Over the first two months of 2018, the total number…
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US Home Building and Selling Improves Further as Softwood Lumber Prices Continue Rising
Read more: US Home Building and Selling Improves Further as Softwood Lumber Prices Continue RisingIn it’s quarterly report the US Census Bureau’s quarterly Survey of Construction detailed that over the first two months of 2018, the total number of single-family permits issued nationwide reached 123,871. On a year-over-year basis, this is an +11.2% increase over the February 2017 level of 111,356 single-family permits. The results from the SOC are…
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US Construction Materials Prices: March 2018
Read more: US Construction Materials Prices: March 2018Building materials prices in the US continued to climb in March, according to the latest Producer Price Index release by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Tuesday. OSB-led price increases, up +9.3% since February, while the indexes for ready-mix concrete (+3.3%), softwood lumber (+2.2%), structural steel (+2.0%), and gypsum products (+1.1%) also moved higher. US Construction Materials…
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Full Year 2017 North America Forest Industry Data Out Now
Read more: Full Year 2017 North America Forest Industry Data Out NowJust last week the US Census, Statistics Canada, and Industry Canada have updated data for Canadian and US lumber and log sales and export, and Canadian softwood lumber production and sales. Most of the insight to emerge from this latest data is as expected, but one thing which seems to have slipped past most observers…
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US Residential Construction Spending: Feb 2018
Read more: US Residential Construction Spending: Feb 2018NAHB analysis of Census Construction Spending data, released Monday, shows that total private residential construction spending in the US stood at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of US$533 billion in February, a gain of 0.1% from the upwardly revised estimate of January. Over the past 12 months, total private residential construction spending was up 5.5%.…
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US Construction Self-Employment Rates: Full Year 2016
Read more: US Construction Self-Employment Rates: Full Year 2016According to the 2016 ACS, released Thursday, over 23% of construction workers are self-employed, while an economy-wide average does not reach 10% of the employed labor force. The high self-employment rates in construction reflect a common practice of builders and remodellers to maintain relatively small payrolls and rely on subcontractors for a large share of…
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Get Accurate Data for Your Forestry Investment Needs Every Week
Read more: Get Accurate Data for Your Forestry Investment Needs Every WeekNothing beats the value of accurate data …. don’t go with the wrong guys, go with the right guys. Madison’s Lumber Reporter is the only source PROVEN to be completely unbiased and uninfluenced when printing North American softwood lumber and construction panel solid wood prices. Madison’s has been publishing quality news and price information about Canadian…
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Madison’s Brand-New BC Coastal Log Prices: 2008 – March 2018
Read more: Madison’s Brand-New BC Coastal Log Prices: 2008 – March 2018Your weekly North American softwood lumber and panel price guide, Madison’s Lumber Reporter, is delighted to announce a brand-new data set to help keep the Canadian and US forest products industry informed and up-to-date on the latest data and market information. British Columbia Coastal Log Prices, Monthly: 2013 to March 2018 https://madisonsreport.com/2018/04/05/madisons-announces-bc-coastal-log-prices-monthly/ The information tool…
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Softwood Lumber Cash Prices Remain High, Supported by Big Increases in Futures
Read more: Softwood Lumber Cash Prices Remain High, Supported by Big Increases in FuturesLast week provided some of the lumber price answers many have been seeking for the past few weeks. That significant players had expected prices to soften by now was immaterial as trading of softwood lumber futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange crested up-limit twice this week, to close Thursday at US$536. The latest data out…
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Forest Resources Association
Read more: Forest Resources AssociationForest Resources Association https://forestresources.org FRA Western Region Spring Meeting Tuesday, May 15, 2018 8:00 am – Thursday, May 17, 2018 5:00 pm
