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Madison’s North American Heating Wood Pellet Prices
The latest data, for full year 2017, on Canadian and US residential heating wood pellet exports is now out. Also, to November 2017 numbers for US and Canadian pellet production, sales, and prices as well as competing home heating fuel prices are now out. Don’t miss out on this vital and timely information regarding…
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Softwood Lumber Market Settles Down, Prices Drop Further
August 3, 2018 — Operators have well ascertained their inventories, and supply in the pipeline, against the immediate needs of end-user customers in the US. The recent unknowns of “where is my wood??” have been resolved and, with some interruptions, supply is flowing again across North America. A looming long weekend in Canada has folks…
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Georgia Pacific Builds $150-million US Sawmill
US paper and building products manufacturer Georgia-Pacific LLC is investing US$150 million to open a new sawmill in Albany, GA, as the firm expands its production of softwood lumber, a company press release announced Tuesday. Georgia-Pacific to Build $150-million Sawmill Paper and building products manufacturer Georgia-Pacific LLC is investing US$150 million to open a new mill in Albany, GA…
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RISI, owner of Crow’s Market Weekly, buys Random Lengths Softwood Lumber Publishing
It was quite surprising to Madison’s this week to learn that RISI has bought Random Lengths: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/risi-announces-acquisition-of-random-lengths-1027426671 RISI already runs Crow’s Market Weekly: https://www.risiinfo.com/product/crows-market-price-service/ Madison’s wonders how a single company is planning to put out two competing publications at the same time? This, after RISI itself having it’s European offices raided for securities breach in…
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US New Home Sales, Home Ownership: June and 2Q 2018
Contracts for new, single-family home sales declined in June, falling -5.3% to a 631,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate according to estimates from the joint release of HUD and the US Census Bureau Wednesday last week. The decline came off a downwardly revised May estimate, which was dropped from an initial read of 689,000 to a new estimate of…
