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Still hot demand and relentless delivery delays served to pop up lumber prices yet higher. Buyers scoured their supplier contacts for anyone who might have the wood they need on hand at acceptable price levels. Inventories throughout the supply chain remained low to non-existent. A lot of time continued to be spent searching out the…

Canadian and US Biomass Fuel Investments Increase For details about this report click here: https://madisonsreport.com/products/madisons-north-american-heating-wood-pellet-price-report/ Resolute Acquires Biomass, Other Wood Products Interests Quebec-based Resolute Forest Products recently announced two separate acquisitions as the company grows its wood products operations portfolio. Resolute reached a $50 million agreement with Louisiana-Pacific Corp. to buy out the latter’s 50…

Some lumber prices popped up slightly while others dropped a bit, as customers and suppliers were able to hammer out agreeable price levels for 2022. For more details about the full report click here: https://madisonsreport.com/bc-coastal-log-prices/ The question on everyone’s minds, since before the end of last year, was: were the seemingly very high prices of…

Due to the British Columbia railway and highway washouts and mudslides in November, Canadian lumber production and capacity utilization rates fell drastically in December 2021. Full-year 2021 softwood lumber production volumes across North America, however, improved somewhat over 2020. Full-year sawmill capacity utilization rates across North America recovered from drops in 2020, but remained low…

As the month drew to a close and players recovered from the shock of a big pop in lumber prices two weeks ago, for the week ending February 25 these price increases slowed down. This is not saying much, as the trend line seems to be heading toward those incredible highs in spring of last…