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Year-End for North America’s Lumber Industry Arrives with a Bang
As sawmills across Canada and the US start to make their usual year-end curtailment and maintenance upgrade plans, producers look forward to a New Year 2018 as busy as it was this year. These current high lumber prices have everyone boggling their minds, but it’s likely there will be some shocks coming at the start…
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Strong Softwood Lumber Prices Plus Duties for Canada : 3Q 2017
The 3Q 2017 issue of Madison’s Forest Pulse is almost ready to be sent to subscribers! Don’t miss out on this vital and timely information. Much is being made of current high softwood lumber prices, as opinions abound about the near-future supply-demand balance. Forestry has been a seller’s market from the very beginning of this…
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Update on Immediate Loss to Merchantable Timber Supply due to Wildfires: British Columbia
Kamloops, British Columbia — right there in the middle of sawmill country for western North America — area directors in the Cariboo Regional District were given a briefing Monday on the estimated timber losses industry is facing in light of this summer’s devastating wildfire season. Reasonable expectations are that the immediate loss to merchantable timber…
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BC Softwood Lumber Export, Canada – US Sawmill Capacity
BC export of forest products by value are up 0.4 per cent for 2017 year-to-date September compared to the same period in 2016 ($10.49 billion vs. $10.45), said the Competitiveness and Innovation Branch of the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development Monday. Exports of softwood lumber by value is…
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US Construction Job Openings: September 2017
The open position rate (job openings as a per cent of total employment) for September softened to 2.8 per cent. On a smoothed twelve-month moving average basis, the open position rate for the construction sector held steady at 2.6 per cent, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey…
