Madison’s Weekly Softwood Lumber Prices
“It was a runaway market again last week as prices soared thanks to persistently limited supply.” — Madison’s Lumber Reporter
Softwood Lumber Prices Slowly Recover from Recent Lows: May 2019
Some wholesaler (net FOB sawmill) standard construction framing dimension softwood lumber prices rebounded slightly last week from recent lows, while most prices remained flat from the end of April. While reasonable amounts of wood are being traded, demand could hardly be regarded as lush. Sellers, whether producers or secondary suppliers, had plenty of lumber commodity items on hand — and access to increased supply if necessary — but customers were just not coming to the table with significant buys. As…
Severely Bad Weather Across Continent Barely Slows Lumber Industry
Demand, especially from retailers, continued so strong this week that many North American sawmills were actually able to grow their order files. Current Softwood Lumber Prices Compared to Historical Highs. The below table is a comparison of June 2017 and January 2018 prices for benchmark dimension softwood lumber 2×4 prices compared to historical highs of 2004/05: As Madison’s had anticipated at the end of 2017, the North American lumber market was back in high-gear this week as customers in Canada…
New Paper Product Category Standards
FPInnovations, in collaboration with The American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) and the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), announced Thursday it has developed a Product Category Rules (PCR) for North American market pulp, paper and paperboard products, tissue, and containerboard manufacturers. This PCR allows North American pulp, paper, tissue, and containerboard manufacturers to communicate the environmental footprints of their products in compliance with international standards. Standardizing Paper Product Categories FPInnovations announced Thursday it has developed a Product Category Rules…
Strong Softwood Lumber Prices Plus Duties for Canada : 3Q 2017
The 3Q 2017 issue of Madison’s Forest Pulse is almost ready to be sent to subscribers! Don’t miss out on this vital and timely information. Much is being made of current high softwood lumber prices, as opinions abound about the near-future supply-demand balance. Forestry has been a seller’s market from the very beginning of this year, and all signs point to continued, ongoing strong wood demand in the US for real building projects. This week Madison’s takes a look at…
Update on Immediate Loss to Merchantable Timber Supply due to Wildfires: British Columbia
Kamloops, British Columbia — right there in the middle of sawmill country for western North America — area directors in the Cariboo Regional District were given a briefing Monday on the estimated timber losses industry is facing in light of this summer’s devastating wildfire season. Reasonable expectations are that the immediate loss to merchantable timber supply for other regions and operators will be similar: “estimated that the fires impacted close to one year of the British Columbia provincial annual allowable…
North America Wildfire Update: November 2017
Word is starting to come out of the important fibre supply basket for British Columbia softwood lumber producers about how much of the immediate timber that was expected to be harvested has been damaged by the devastating wildfires this season. North America Wildfire Damage Update: November 2017 At the latest meeting between British Columbia municipalities and the province, Quesnel mayor and council agreed to take a message to Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development (FLNRO&RD) Minister Doug Donaldson’s…
North America Wildfire Damage Update: October 2017
British Columbia recorded its worst-ever fire season this year, said CBC Monday. Wildfires that began in early April scorched just over 12,000 square kilometres of timber, bush, and grassland and at their height forced 45,000 people from their homes. Climate change didn’t directly cause major wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia this year but it did contribute to their extreme nature, explained Mike Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire at the University of Alberta, to CBC. North America Wildfire Damage…
Roseburg Sells, Solifor Buys…
Roseburg Resources, out of Sprinfield, OR, is selling 170,000 acres of timberland in Siskiyou and Shasta counties an Australia management firm, according to the Mail Tribune Thursday. Roseburg has operations in three Northwest states, including a medium density fiberboard plant in Medford, and four Southeast states. The buyer is New Forests, a US$3 billion firm based in Sydney, Australia, with offices in San Francisco, Singapore and New Zealand. It manages more than 2 million acres of land and forests globally….
US Wildfires Destroyed over 7,000 Homes
The latest word out of Madison’s contacts close to the Softwood Lumber negotiations Tuesday is that — in advance of the next looming ‘gap period’ this time on the anti-dumping duty — there will be some kind of announcement out of US Commerce dept regarding: ” sources are conveying that the AD/CVD aligned Final Determination publication date is being pushed up to as early as the end of this week, or next Tuesday at the latest ” Jones & Jones…