Tag: sawmill

The China section of Canada Wood Group wrote February 6 that from January to November 2017 China’s forestry fixed asset investment totalled RMB 204.1 billion (C$40.13 billion), representing +3.2 per cent growth year-on-year. During the same period wood volumes imported via Taicang Port equalled 10.29 million cubic metres, which is equal to a +27.18 per…

Lumber production at Canadian sawmills fell -1 per cent from October, with sawmills producing 5,929 thousand cubic metres of lumber in November, said Statistics Canada February 8. Production was -1.5 per cent lower than in November 2016. Sawmills shipped 5,656 thousand cubic metres of lumber in November, down -3.9 per cent from October and -4.8…

The recent huge burst of buying slacked off this week as lumber futures descended from their up-limit of last week to crash down-limit Monday and trigger a stop-order on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. In the cash market, customers — still reeling from sticker-shock last week — held off on buying unless absolutely desperate for fill-in…

Madison’s is very excited to announce today just this first step in the fabulous range of *new* products and information streams we have coming online in the first half of this year! Parajuli Zhang Kosman_FPE 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934117303209 Province specific impacts of the 2006 United States-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement: A seemingly unrelated regression approach  Based on monthly data from January…

A dearth of truckers in Canada is hindering shipments from Resolute Forest Products’ sawmills to its paper mills, outgoing Chief Executive Officer Richard Garneau said Thursday on an earnings conference call. The Montreal-based company slowed down production in December after the shortage and harsh winter conditions led to a lack of woodchips at its mills…