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MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER YEAR-END 2014 LUMBER MARKET COMMENT:
Improving on stability begun last year for North America’s forest products manufacturers, 2014 ended on a positive note. Volumes and values of dimension and framing lumber shipped from Canada to the US for the first ten months of this year equalled that for full-year 2013. Data out of Statistics Canada December 29 shows lumber exported…
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MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER YEAR-END 2014 LUMBER MARKET COMMENT:
Improving on stability begun last year for North America’s forest products manufacturers, 2014 ended on a positive note. Volumes and values of dimension and framing lumber shipped from Canada to the US for the first ten months of this year equalled that for full-year 2013. Data out of Statistics Canada December 29 shows lumber exported…
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Interfor Buys Four US Sawmills
Interfor buys four mills, raising bet on U.S. lumber production to hedge against B.C. supply constraints By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun December 22, 2014 Madison’s Lumber Reporter: “B.C. mills are well stocked in the immediate term, according to Keta Kosman, publisher of the industry newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter, with just some specialty timber — such…
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Interfor Buys Four US Sawmills
Interfor buys four mills, raising bet on U.S. lumber production to hedge against B.C. supply constraints By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun December 22, 2014 Madison’s Lumber Reporter: “B.C. mills are well stocked in the immediate term, according to Keta Kosman, publisher of the industry newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter, with just some specialty timber — such…
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Norbord, Ainsworth to Merge
Two Canadian wood product companies — Norbord Inc. and Ainsworth Lumber Corp. — plan to combine their businesses through a $759-million deal to create one of the world’s largest producers of oriented strand board. Norbord Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. will create a global wood products giant with a market capitalization of…
