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Groupe Savoie Sawmill to Close
Forty-five people work at the Westville Sawmill in Westville, Pictou County, NB, owned by Groupe Savoie, which will be forced to shut down next week, according to CBC Tuesday. The sawmill has only enough hardwood supply to keep working for another week. New Brunswick Sawmill to Close Mill manager Andrew Watters says the same…
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Canfor Canal Flats, BC, Lays off 81
Canfor, headquartered in Vancouver, BC, February 5 announced to their Canal Flats, BC, employees that the mill would be going from two shifts to one affecting 81 employees due to lack of economically available fibre effective May 4, 2015. Doug Singer, President of United Steelworkers Local 1-405 in Cranbrook, BC, told the Kootenay Advisor, “This…
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US Southern Pine, Hardwood Lumber Exports: 2014
Southern Pine lumber exports finished 2014 at a record volume of just over 552 mmbf, a jump of 17 per cent above the 2013 export total, said the Southern Forest Products Association Friday. Southern Pine lumber exports have more than doubled in the past five years, the agency said. Meanwhile, US exports of hardwood lumber…
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Northwest Hardwoods Acquires
Northwest Hardwoods, out of Longview, WA, has completed the acquisition of Industrial Timber & Lumber, based in Beachwood, OH. ITL is one of the largest global suppliers of North American hardwood. It sells over 200 million board feet of hardwood lumber annually and has approximately 400 employees. ITL owns two integrated sawmills, four concentration yards…
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Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: Feb 27 ’15
check it out . . . http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/lumber-prices/ also check out . . . http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/lumber-prices/lumber-price-graphs/
