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Russia Lumber Export Rise 7.4 Per Cent: 1H 2015
For the first six months of 2015 total volume of lumber exports from Russia increased by 7.4 per cent, to 6.96 million tons year-over-year, as Federal Customs Service of Russia said in the press release received by Lesprom Network August 7. The volume of Russian exports of roundwood however, for the reporting period, amounted to…
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Housing Starts, Canada: July 2015
The latest report from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp, released Tuesday, showed the seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts fell to 193,032 in July from a downwardly revised 202,338 units in June. With the six-month trend at 185,586 starts, analysts said homebuilding has settled into a pace that meets demographic demand, seemingly unaffected…
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North America Timber Update and Forecast
The latest data and analyses for North America timber usage is contradictory enough without a constantly changing landscape subject to politics and evolving title rights. Please see Page 7 for what happened in Québec this week with First Nations resource rights. Conference Board of Canada Otherwise, the Conference Board of Canada this week released a…
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North America Log and Lumber Markets
A spurt of talk in the past few days about lumber market recovery / not yet recovery prompted Madison’s to do a Round Up Update for North American log and lumber data: Said the Vancouver Sun Tuesday, “The key commodity price for 1,000 board feet of western spruce, pine or fir 2X4s, as reported by…
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Madison’s Weekly Dimension Lumber Prices Update: June 2015
PRICES REFLECT June 19, 2015 ISSUE OF MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER Kiln-Dried Fir Whirlwind Savvy wholesalers and distributers who loaded up on KD fir lumber when prices were down jumped for joy this week. The current scarcity of dry fir only seems to be worsening, and asking prices among both primary and secondary suppliers have increased…
