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Madison’s Announces . . . BC Coastal Log Prices: Monthly
Read more: Madison’s Announces . . . BC Coastal Log Prices: MonthlyThe information tool for your forest management and investment planning decisions. Our *new* monthly log price report is tailored to provide you with vital data about prices of various species and grades of British Columbia coastal logs, for Canadian and international markets, at your fingertips in a timely manner. Order our PRE-PUBLICATION sale and be…
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Short Week In Canada Kept Pressure Up for Higher Lumber Prices
Read more: Short Week In Canada Kept Pressure Up for Higher Lumber PricesA persistent lack of stable supply together with ongoing hot demand served to keep western Canadian dimension framing softwood lumber prices high, even as many other species/regions experienced price drops this week. In support of the WSPF R/L price resistance to softening was erratic straight lengths (or specified lengths) prices, most sizes of which flew…
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Biomass Supply Chains as Support of a Bioeconomy
Read more: Biomass Supply Chains as Support of a BioeconomyWrites Mahmood Ebadian, of the Biomass and Bioenergy Research group at University of British Columbia, ( https://biomass.ubc.ca ) one of the primary barriers to the utilization of agricultural and forest residues in Canada is lack of established supply chains that are capable of meeting target biomass costs and quality specifications of bio-conversion technologies. In a…
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Canada Residential Building Permits: January 2018
Read more: Canada Residential Building Permits: January 2018New housing construction investment in Canada totalled $4.4 billion in January, up +9.4% compared with January 2017. Investment was up for all dwelling types, said Statistics Canada Wednesday. Spending rose in eight provinces, led by Quebec (+$139.1 million), British Columbia (+$128.3 million) and Alberta (+$82.6 million). The increase in Quebec was driven by investment in apartment building construction. Canada Construction Investment:…
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Lumber Market Waffles on Price Points as Sales Take a Pause
Read more: Lumber Market Waffles on Price Points as Sales Take a PauseLast week some sources found that lumber prices were still inching up. Others said sawmills were holding firm on price lists as they worked through extended order files, while wholesalers and secondary suppliers offered discounts to move wood. Lumber futures were soft, with brisk trading of the May contract on moderate volumes. In reality there…
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Madison’s Heating Wood Pellet Report: January 2018
Read more: Madison’s Heating Wood Pellet Report: January 2018The latest data, for full year 2017, on Canadian and US residential heating wood pellet exports is now out. Also, to November 2017 numbers for US and Canadian pellet production, sales, and prices as well as competing home heating fuel prices are now out. Don’t miss out on this vital and timely information regarding…
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Southern Pine Softwood Lumber Prices Skyrocket, March Futures Closes Up $14
Read more: Southern Pine Softwood Lumber Prices Skyrocket, March Futures Closes Up $14The sense of astonishment was unabated throughout the North American softwood lumber market last week, even as a brief respite in buying — due to sheer sticker-shock on the part of customers — allowed sawmills to catch up on yawning order files and to ship out wood purchased weeks ago. While long-delayed rail cars started…
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US Building Materials Prices Continue Recent Increases: Feb 2018
Read more: US Building Materials Prices Continue Recent Increases: Feb 2018Prices paid for building materials in the US increased across the board in February, according to the latest US Producer Price Index (PPI) release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the National Association of Home Builders Wednesday. The indices for softwood lumber (+5.6%), gypsum products (+4.2%), OSB (+3.1%), ready-mix concrete (+0.4%), and inputs to…
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North America Softwood Lumber Production, WWPA: Full Year 2017
Read more: North America Softwood Lumber Production, WWPA: Full Year 2017Elsewhere, softwood lumber production in Canada stayed flat in 2017 compared to the previous year, said the Western Wood Products Association’s monthly Lumber Track Thursday, at 28,334 million board feet versus 28,335 million the previous year. However, in British Columbia lumber production fell by -4.5 per cent, to 12,950 million board feet from 13, 559…
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Canada Lumber Production at Sawmills, StatsCan: Full Year 2017
Read more: Canada Lumber Production at Sawmills, StatsCan: Full Year 2017Lumber production in Canada fell -18.6 per cent in December 2017 from November, with sawmills producing 4,827 thousand cubic metres of lumber, said Statistics Canada Thursday. Declines in production during this reference period are common due to the holiday season. Production was -0.8 per cent lower than in December 2016. Sawmills shipped 4,812 thousand cubic metres of lumber in December, down -14.9 per…
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Madison’s Heating Wood Pellet Report: January 2018
Read more: Madison’s Heating Wood Pellet Report: January 2018The latest data, for full year 2017, on Canadian and US residential heating wood pellet exports is now out. Also, to November 2017 numbers for US and Canadian pellet production, sales, and prices as well as competing home heating fuel prices are now out. Don’t miss out on this vital and timely information regarding…
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Famished Customers Descend on WSPF 2x8s
Read more: Famished Customers Descend on WSPF 2x8sUnable to hold off buying any longer and disgusted with continued high 2×4 prices out of North America’s western region, customers fled to the 2×8 sizes for their WSPF softwood lumber buying this week. Problems with delivery and receiving wood already ordered were cited as reasons for such desperate purchases. Prices of other construction framing…
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Canada and US Forestry Data: Full Year 2017
Read more: Canada and US Forestry Data: Full Year 2017Data of volumes and values of North American forestry production, sales, and exports is starting to emerge out of Statistics Canada, Industry Canada, and the US Census. Of intense interest is Canadian softwood lumber production for full-year 2017. Now that the average approximately 20% US lumber duties are in effect, the movement of wood last…
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Sawmills Invest, Buy, Expand
Read more: Sawmills Invest, Buy, ExpandAtlanta, GA’s, BMC Stock Holdings will acquire the business of W.E. Shone, the leading supplier of building materials in Delaware, said the company in a press release Wednesday. Tolko Industries, out of Vernon, BC, announced also Wednesday it has partnered with Louisiana-based Hunt Forest Products to build a state-of-the-art sawmill near Urania, LA. Elsewhere, Alabama’s…
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Astonished Customers Delay Buying as Softwood Lumber Prices Remain High
Read more: Astonished Customers Delay Buying as Softwood Lumber Prices Remain HighPlayers in the recent overheated lumber market took a pause this week as benchmark WSPF KD 2×4 #2&Btr cash prices stayed flat over the previous week. The lumber futures board on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange dropped down-limit at close Thursday and continued it’s slide in active trading Friday. Sawmills were able to respond to reluctant…
