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Madison’s Monthly Softwood Lumber Price Bar Charts: Nov 13, 2018
North America softwood lumber and panel current and recent historical prices trend: 2-month bar charts:
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Canada Wood Sales to China Set to Surge Upwards Again
The latest quarterly report Madison’s has been producing this year for the federal government of Canada has found some interesting new developments in the market dynamics of producing and selling softwood lumber products. It is encouraging that Madison’s findings are this very week corroborated by analysts at Export Development Canada: Export economist predicts China to…
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North American Sawmill Capacity Utilization, Lumber Production: August 2018
US #softwood #lumber production reversed it’s decrease last month, climbing a spectacular +9.0 per cent in August compared to the month prior and continued improvements over the previous year by growing another +2.0 per cent from August 2017, according to statistics from the Western Wood Products Association’s Lumber Track. US lumber production totaled 2,908 million…
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Current Softwood Lumber Prices Compared to Recent and Historical Highs: Nov 6, 2018
The North America softwood lumber market ended October 2018 in a complete reversal to the rest of the year, and indeed most of 2017. Inventories were plump, customers were silent, producers were just starting to announce seasonal downtime, and secondary suppliers had an abundance of wood on hand. At sawmills, log supply was ample. Sales…
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Tall Mass Timber Code Proposals Pass
On Wednesday, October 24, all 14 proposals from the Ad Hoc Committee on Tall Wood Buildings were approved by large margins at the International Code Council (ICC) public comment hearings in Richmond, VA. The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) commends the American Wood Council (AWC) and its effort in this specially funded initiative by the SLB,…
