Tag: lumber

  • Focus on lumber: Norbord (T.NBD) named as a top 25 dividend stock

    June 20, 2014 MADISON’S WEEKLY LUMBER MARKET UPDATE AND OVERVIEW Provided by: Madison’s Lumber Reporter www.madisonsreport.com Near-panic among North America’s lumber and panel traders was narrowly averted this week as customers came in heavily to buy solid volumes of wood and the previously-tanking futures board reversed direction absolutely, wrote Keta Kosman in Madison’s Lumber Reporter…

  • Focus on lumber: Norbord (T.NBD) named as a top 25 dividend stock

    June 20, 2014 MADISON’S WEEKLY LUMBER MARKET UPDATE AND OVERVIEW Provided by: Madison’s Lumber Reporter www.madisonsreport.com Near-panic among North America’s lumber and panel traders was narrowly averted this week as customers came in heavily to buy solid volumes of wood and the previously-tanking futures board reversed direction absolutely, wrote Keta Kosman in Madison’s Lumber Reporter…

  • Plum Creek Develops

    Plum Creek Timber, out of Seattle, WA, and one of the largest private landowners in the nation, has begun developing a 2,000-acre “mega site” in south Georgia for future industrial use. Speaking to stock analysts on April 28, Plum Creek CEO Rick Holley said the property, which he called the “Heart of Georgia mega site,”…

  • BC Forest Practices Board Statement

    A report released Tuesday on British Columbia’s forest industry’s harvesting of beetle-killed timber confirms that industry has been meeting government’s expectations for concentrating harvesting on dead pine trees, but says the harvest of other kinds of trees is increasing more than expected in some areas of the province. Pine Beetle Timber The report looks at…

  • Resolute Announces

    Resolute Forest Products, also based in Montreal, QC, Thursday announced a $105 million upgrade to its Calhoun, TN, pulp and paper mill, including the installation of a modern continuous pulp digester and other wood chip processing equipment. When completed by mid-2016, the project will contribute to significantly lower the mill’s costs, increase its pulp capacity…