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Lumber Market Waffles on Price Points as Sales Take a Pause
Last week some sources found that lumber prices were still inching up. Others said sawmills were holding firm on price lists as they worked through extended order files, while wholesalers and secondary suppliers offered discounts to move wood. Lumber futures were soft, with brisk trading of the May contract on moderate volumes. In reality there…
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Southern Pine Softwood Lumber Prices Skyrocket, March Futures Closes Up $14
The sense of astonishment was unabated throughout the North American softwood lumber market last week, even as a brief respite in buying — due to sheer sticker-shock on the part of customers — allowed sawmills to catch up on yawning order files and to ship out wood purchased weeks ago. While long-delayed rail cars started…
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North America Softwood Lumber Production, WWPA: Full Year 2017
Elsewhere, softwood lumber production in Canada stayed flat in 2017 compared to the previous year, said the Western Wood Products Association’s monthly Lumber Track Thursday, at 28,334 million board feet versus 28,335 million the previous year. However, in British Columbia lumber production fell by -4.5 per cent, to 12,950 million board feet from 13, 559…
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Canada Lumber Production at Sawmills, StatsCan: Full Year 2017
Lumber production in Canada fell -18.6 per cent in December 2017 from November, with sawmills producing 4,827 thousand cubic metres of lumber, said Statistics Canada Thursday. Declines in production during this reference period are common due to the holiday season. Production was -0.8 per cent lower than in December 2016. Sawmills shipped 4,812 thousand cubic metres of lumber in December, down -14.9 per…
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Famished Customers Descend on WSPF 2x8s
Unable to hold off buying any longer and disgusted with continued high 2×4 prices out of North America’s western region, customers fled to the 2×8 sizes for their WSPF softwood lumber buying this week. Problems with delivery and receiving wood already ordered were cited as reasons for such desperate purchases. Prices of other construction framing…
