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North America Sawmill Capacity, Production: October 2017
US sawmills produced 28.638 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first ten months of 2017, another 4.3 per cent increase over last month, from 27.446 bbf from January to October the previous year, according to the Western Wood Products Association’s latest Lumber Track report Wednesday. CANADA AND US LUMBER PRODUCTION, SAWMILL CAPACITY:…
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NAHB 2018 International Builders’ Show®: January 2018
For the three days of the annual National Association of Home Builders 2018 International Builders’ Show® (IBS) last week, building industry professionals from across the globe discovered a variety of products and innovative concepts that are sure to enhance their businesses moving forward. For all of 2017, the US construction industry added 210,000 jobs, a…
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Williams Lake, BC, Sawmill Post-Fire Rebuild
Work is underway at Tolko Industries’ Lakeview Division in Williams Lake, BC, where the sawmill building was damaged by fire at the beginning of November. The Tolko board has approved the sawmill’s reconstruction, said Tom Hoffman, Tolko’s manager of external and stakeholder relations to the Quesnel Observer Tuesday. Williams Lake Sawmill Rebuild Tolko’s manager of…
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US Trade Entanglements
Madison’s has word from US Customs Brokers working the border that — upon requesting clarification from Customs and the DoC — it seems that, at least for now, shake and shingles are also captured in the highly punitive US softwood lumber CV and AD duties. As the bizarre US newsprint trade claim against Canada last…
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Canadian Forest Industry: Oct 2017
A flurry of full-year 2016 and October data for Canada’s forest products industry was released by Statistics Canada just before the end of last year. Manufacturing industry, including logging, and GDP by industry data is now out. Canada Forest Industry: October 2017 Total revenues reported by Canadian manufacturers increased to $664 billion in 2016, up…
