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US Construction Labour Shortage
Also at the NAHB Design and Construction Week, was a lot of conversation about a looming and serious shortage in skilled construction labour. During a three-hour seminar Wednesday morning, builders shared tips for finding and training newcomers and maintaining ties with their trades when labour is hard to find. US Home Builders and Skilled-Labor Shortage:…
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BC Dimension Cedar Producers Hike Prices in Anticipation of Softwood Lumber Duties
Dimension cedar mills in Lower Mainland, British Columbia, pushed their prices up another ten per cent, with plans for further hikes designed to mitigate forthcoming retroactive duties on their US-bound shipments. At least one large producer was “working hard” at getting Western red cedar exempted from the ongoing and embittered US-Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute. In…
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Western Wood Products Association: Lumber Track October 2016
Western US lumber production dipped 3.7 per cent in November 2016, from 1.17 BBF in October to 1.13 BBF, according to the Western Wood Products Association‘s monthly Lumber Track. Year-over-year, western production in November rose 9 per cent compared to November 2015. Through November of last year, western production totalled 12.82 BBF, an increase of…
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Canada Sawmill Exports, Manufacturing Sales at Sawmills: October 2016
Manufacturing sales by Canadian sawmills continued their sharp increases of previous months, up by 10.6 per cent, to C$8,652 million from C$7,755 million, for the top three lumber producing provinces combined — British Columbia, Quebec, and Alberta — for January to October 2016 compared to the same time last year. Canada Sawmill Exports, Manufacturing Sales…
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USITC Votes to Continue Investigations on Softwood Lumber Products from Canada
THE USITC FRIDAY DETERMINED: https://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2017/er0106ll702.htm January 6, 2017 News Release 17-003 Inv. No. 701-TA-566 and 731-TA-1342 Contact: Peg O’Laughlin, 202-205-1819 USITC Votes to Continue Investigations on Softwood Lumber Products from Canada The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason…
