Keyword: Canada

Trump administration’s lumber tariffs forces Canadian producers to idle sawmills

U.S. lumber prices reached record prices during the first half of 2018, but have come to plunge 47% starting [...]

January 14, 2019

British Columbia lumber producers are getting ready for a rough 2019, considering the concerns over Canada-China trade, the US [...]

January 8, 2019

Doug Donaldson, B.C. Forests/Rural Development Minister, is taking a large forestry-sector delegation to three Asian countries this [...]

November 22, 2018

U.S. sawmills produced 23.855 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first eight months of 2018 [...]

November 20, 2018

Hundreds of sawmill workers are being laid off in B.C., some of them permanently, despite recent record profits made [...]

November 16, 2018

The Canadian government revealed plans to invest $15 million in Granule 777 Inc. The funds will go towards helping the [...]

November 15, 2018

The softwood sawmilling sector in Eastern Canada will play an increasingly important role as a key supplier to the growing [...]

November 14, 2018

Canada’s key export-support organization boldly predicts China will surpass the United States as British Columbia’s top market [...]

November 12, 2018

Canadian wood pellet producer Pinnacle Renewable Energy increased its third-quarter revenues 6.4 per cent compared to 2017 numbers [...]

November 8, 2018

The decline of lumber prices in Canada is, most likely, over. Even if prices won’t rebound to this year [...]

November 5, 2018