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Seneca Breaks Ground
Major building upgrades are set to begin at Eugene, OR-based Seneca Sawmill Company Friday, said The Register-Guard. The company invited media to the start of a US$60 million overhaul of its dimension mill on Highway 99. The dimension mill processes logs with diameters between 12 and 40 inches. The upgrades will improve efficiency at the…
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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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Canada Lumber Production at Sawmills: April 2015
Compared with April 2014, Canadian lumber production rose by 6.9 per cent, to 5,617 thousand cubic metres. Lumber production by sawmills in Canada decreased 0.7 per cent from March, said Statistics Canada Thursday. Sawmills shipped 5,434 thousand cubic metres of lumber in April, down 0.9 per cent from March.
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Skeena Sawmill Closes
Hot weather and cool markets in China have resulted in the almost total closure of Skeena Sawmills, Terrace, BC’s, only large sawmill, according to the Terrace Standard Friday. A skeleton crew of 10 people from what was a 90-person workforce is left working. The mass layoff will last at least a month, said Mill official…
