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Madison’s Lumber Prices Online Tool, Demo Video
Lumber Prices vs US House Sales Price: 2019 Since 1952, Madison’s has been publishing quality news and price information about North American softwood lumber and panel products, building a reputation as an independent source of market news. Madison’s Lumber Reporter started as a weekly newsletter detailing current US and Canadian softwood lumber and panel prices.…
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Softwood Lumber Price Recent Drops Lessen; US Home Sales, House Prices Improve Slightly
While North America construction framing softwood lumber prices dropped a bit more last week, the decreases were much less than in previous weeks. Lumber prices did fall, but by a smaller amount than in recent weeks. New data releases for US pending homes sales and house prices, February and 1Q 2019 respectively, show slight improvements.…
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WorkSafeBC Reopens BC Sawmill Explosions Investigation
In January, 2012, a sawmill in the community of Burns Lake, British Columbia, exploded, killing Robert Luggi Jr. and Carl Charlies. In April of that year, a similar blast consumed a Prince George, BC, sawmill, killing Alan Little and Glenn Roche. Many of the survivors suffered life-altering injuries – some are still unable to return…
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US Home Sales, House Prices: March 2019
A flurry of data on US real estate was released this week, with new housing starts, and new and existing home sales and house prices, all coming out Monday and Tuesday. Of great importance to the sawmilling industry is US new home sales: seasonally adjusted annual rate according to estimates from the joint release of…
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Canfor to Curtail all British Columbia Operations for One Week
Canfor Corporation announced April 24 it will be temporarily putting restrictions on operations at all of its British Columbia dimension mills. The restrictions will take effect on April 29 due to low lumber prices and the high cost of fibre. The curtailment will reduce Canfor’s production output by approximately 100 million board feet. Canfor has…
