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Roseburg Sells, Solifor Buys…
Roseburg Resources, out of Sprinfield, OR, is selling 170,000 acres of timberland in Siskiyou and Shasta counties an Australia management firm, according to the Mail Tribune Thursday. Roseburg has operations in three Northwest states, including a medium density fiberboard plant in Medford, and four Southeast states. The buyer is New Forests, a US$3 billion firm…
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Canada Housing Starts: September 2017
Canadian housing starts dipped in September, capping another quarter of strong home building growth, but a drop in August building permits suggested the long boom is cooling, separate reports from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation showed Tuesday. Groundbreaking on homes in Canada edged slightly lower in September to 217,118 units from August’s upwardly revised 225,918…
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US Construction Job Openings: August 2017
The count of unfilled jobs in the US construction sector continued to rise in August, reaching the highest level since February 2007, according to the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) and NAHB analysis. The number of open construction sector jobs increased to 247,000 in August. This represents a 34 per cent increase…
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North American Sawmill Capacity Utilization: July 2017
As with May, rates of production as percent of practical capacity for North American sawmills in the US in January to July 2017 rose another percentage point from last month, to 86%. This compared to 86% the previous year and 86% for full year 2016, according to the latest issue of the Western Wood Products…
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US Railcar Traffic: September 2017
US railroads originated 1,044,563 carloads in September 2017, down 2.3 per cent, or -24,106 carloads, from September 2016, said the Association of American Railroads October 4. US railroads also originated 1,080,444 containers and trailers in September 2017, up 3.8 per cent, or 39,482 units, from the same month last year. Combined US carload and intermodal…
