Tag: building

  • Leading Information Providers To Offer Comprehensive Sawmill Directory

    Madison’s Lumber Reporter and Blue Book Services have entered an agreement to combine Madison’s Online Lumber Directory data with the Lumber Blue Book online listings, forming the sawmill industry’s most comprehensive information database of lumber companies in the USA and Canada. The combined dataset will contain over 23,000 headquarter listings and over 8,000 branch listings,…

  • Lumber Prices Drop as Supply Improves

    The latest data from the Western Wood Products Association shows that Canadian and US softwood lumber production and sawmill capacity utilization rates improved in March. Finally! Lumber prices have been so strong in the past year in part because the huge — and sudden — increase in demand was met by supply levels struggling to…

  • Softwood Lumber Market and Prices Update: June 2021 (video)

    June 16, 2021 — Following the Victoria Day long weekend in Canada (May 24) and the Memorial Day long weekend in the US (May 31), a standoff developed between lumber suppliers and customers, thus prices were flat on almost all items. It was a “wait and see” situation; as buyers wondered if prices would go…

  • Madison’s Softwood Lumber Prices June 18: Sneak Preview

    Here is a SNEAK PEAK at tomorrow’s print for North American construction framing softwood lumber and panel prices: Big drops in lumber prices last week were not enough to satisfy the supply-demand balance, so this week the wholesaler price of benchmark construction framing dimension softwood lumber item Western Spruce-Pine-Fir KD 2×4 #2&Btr, for the week…

  • US Rail Car Loadings and Lumber Production: June 2021 (video)

    After crashing horribly one year ago, North American softwood lumber production and sawmill capacity utilization rates finally recovered in March 2021, according to the Western Wood Products Association. As well, railcar loadings of Canada and US forest products show improvements over the terrible lows of one year ago. Check out Madison’s products: https://madisonsreport.com/products/ Subscribe to…