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North American Forest Industry Back to Regular Operations: Jan 2018
Read more: North American Forest Industry Back to Regular Operations: Jan 2018Just as Madison’s predicted not three weeks ago, demand for solid wood products continues fierce in 2018 and prices are showing signs of further strength in the months to come. It almost seemed like in 2017 lumber prices didn’t have a usual seasonal low; as follow-through of strong demand after US Thanksgiving kept manufactured wood…
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Canadian Forest Industry: Oct 2017
Read more: Canadian Forest Industry: Oct 2017A flurry of full-year 2016 and October data for Canada’s forest products industry was released by Statistics Canada just before the end of last year. Manufacturing industry, including logging, and GDP by industry data is now out. Canada Forest Industry: October 2017 Total revenues reported by Canadian manufacturers increased to $664 billion in 2016, up 0.9 per cent…
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US on Forestry Import Duty Frenzy
Read more: US on Forestry Import Duty FrenzyIn addition to Canadian supercalendered paper and softwood lumber, Canadian newsprint is now also being subject to an import duty from the US. As well, the US and China are currently in a fight over paper and cellulose pulp, levying duties on each other for respective domestic imports. Published on the US Federal Register Wednesday…
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BC Softwood Lumber Exports: October 2017
Read more: BC Softwood Lumber Exports: October 2017Softwood lumber exports by value from British Columbia are up 0.2 per cent for 2017 year- to-date October compared to the same period in 2016 ($11.64 billion vs. $11.62), said the Log Export and Economic Analysis Branch of the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations December 13. Lumber value is down -6…
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Back to Full Operation for North American Forest Products Industry
Read more: Back to Full Operation for North American Forest Products IndustryKiln-Dried Fir Softwood Lumber Sales Momentum Loss: December 2017 As in green fir, consistent and strong demand for Kiln-Dried Douglas-fir softwood lumber continued to come out of California – particularly the Southern part of the state – but overall it wasn’t enough to keep producers from lowering their asking prices. Players in the US intimated…
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Seasonal Holiday Break for North American Forest Industry
Read more: Seasonal Holiday Break for North American Forest IndustryAnd what a year it has been, holey moley. Sawmills across Canada and the US will hardly get a chance to assess this wild year as year- end inventory in their yards is calculated before the New Year 2018, with it’s punishing softwood lumber duty, comes on. It is usual for the entire province of…
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Canada and US Softwood Lumber Production, Sawmill Capacity: Sept 2017
Read more: Canada and US Softwood Lumber Production, Sawmill Capacity: Sept 2017US sawmills produced 25.509 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first nine months of 2017, another 3.2 per cent increase over last month, from 24.730 bbf in the previous year, according to the Western Wood Products Association’s latest Lumber Track report Monday. For their part, sawmills in Canada produced 21.374 bbf of…
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One More Week Before Traditional Forestry Holiday Break
Read more: One More Week Before Traditional Forestry Holiday BreakBut expect the lumber business to come back with a bang right at the beginning of 2018, just as it was in January this year. The US International Trade Commission December 7 released a pre-announcement of it’s looming Final Determination on Canadian imports of manufactured softwood lumber products to the USA. This timing means that…
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Canada Softwood Lumber WTO Case
Read more: Canada Softwood Lumber WTO CaseEven in advance of the final US International Trade Commission determination, Canada’s Foreign Trade Ministry formally requested World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations with the United States concerning the US Department of Commerce’s recent final softwood lumber anti-dumping and countervailing duty determinations on imports of certain products from Canada, said Woodworking.net November 27. Canada that Tuesday…
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Year-End for North America’s Lumber Industry Arrives with a Bang
Read more: Year-End for North America’s Lumber Industry Arrives with a BangAs sawmills across Canada and the US start to make their usual year-end curtailment and maintenance upgrade plans, producers look forward to a New Year 2018 as busy as it was this year. These current high lumber prices have everyone boggling their minds, but it’s likely there will be some shocks coming at the start…
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Cross-Laminated Timber, LVL, Glulam, and other Structural Laminates
Read more: Cross-Laminated Timber, LVL, Glulam, and other Structural Laminates A bridge made of engineered wood; specifically, cross-laminated timber! Even Madison’s hadn’t expected such anon-traditional application of forest products as a building material. Researchers at South Dakota State University’s J Lohr Structures Lab have tested the strength of a glulam bridge as part of a push to give counties and towns more options when designing…
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New Paper Product Category Standards
Read more: New Paper Product Category StandardsFPInnovations, in collaboration with The American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) and the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), announced Thursday it has developed a Product Category Rules (PCR) for North American market pulp, paper and paperboard products, tissue, and containerboard manufacturers. This PCR allows North American pulp, paper, tissue, and containerboard manufacturers to communicate…
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Strong Softwood Lumber Prices Plus Duties for Canada : 3Q 2017
Read more: Strong Softwood Lumber Prices Plus Duties for Canada : 3Q 2017The 3Q 2017 issue of Madison’s Forest Pulse is almost ready to be sent to subscribers! Don’t miss out on this vital and timely information. Much is being made of current high softwood lumber prices, as opinions abound about the near-future supply-demand balance. Forestry has been a seller’s market from the very beginning of this…
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Update on Immediate Loss to Merchantable Timber Supply due to Wildfires: British Columbia
Read more: Update on Immediate Loss to Merchantable Timber Supply due to Wildfires: British ColumbiaKamloops, British Columbia — right there in the middle of sawmill country for western North America — area directors in the Cariboo Regional District were given a briefing Monday on the estimated timber losses industry is facing in light of this summer’s devastating wildfire season. Reasonable expectations are that the immediate loss to merchantable timber…
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North America Wildfire Update: November 2017
Read more: North America Wildfire Update: November 2017Word is starting to come out of the important fibre supply basket for British Columbia softwood lumber producers about how much of the immediate timber that was expected to be harvested has been damaged by the devastating wildfires this season. North America Wildfire Damage Update: November 2017 At the latest meeting between British Columbia municipalities…
