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Canada Softwood Lumber Production: September 2015
Lumber production by sawmills increased 5.2 per cent from August to 5,563.5 thou- sand cubic metres in September, according to new data released by Statistics Canada Tuesday. Compared with September 2014, lumber production rose 7.8 per cent. Sawmills shipped 5,609.5 thousand cubic metres of lumber in September, up 8.5 per cent from August. Shipments rose…
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Canada Lumber Exports Up, US Log Exports Down
The latest StatsCan data, out Monday shows an interesting picture for North American forest products…while the lumber business in the US is improving there it is going to be a slow, steady haul for the next approx three years I think :-/ Right now we’re into the usual seasonal ‘boring’ end-of-year slowdown and curtailments. At…
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Resolute Suspends Québec Operations
Resolute Forest Products is suspending indefinitely its wood-cutting operations in Québec’s Mauricie region near Trois-Rivieres, the company announced Thursday. The suspension, which starts Friday, will affect at least 180 jobs. The Montreal-based company attributed the decision mainly to high fibre costs, but also low market selling prices. Resolute said it has had discussions with the…
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Sawmill Fire
Investigators in northern Ohio planned to return to the scene of a sawmill fire that all but destroyed the centre of a warehouse and caused its roof to collapse. The blaze struck a warehouse behind Carter Lumber on Route 20 in Oberlin, OH, Wednesday. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire was still…
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US Softwood Lumber Imports from Europe Double
At a total of 111,777 cubic metres, the USA imported more than twice as much softwood lumber from Europe in 3Q than it had done in the same period of last year, according to EUWID Wednesday. Foreign trade data from the US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) shows that Sweden was the main…
