Lumber exports from Belarus continue booming trend in Q3
In the third quarter of this year, Belarusian exporters sold 859,000 m³ of lumber worth US $ 93.7 million [...]
December 6, 2018
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US softwood lumber prices keep on rising
A mostly measured sales pace was reported across the most of US framing lumber species last week. Modest upward momentum [...]
December 5, 2018
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West Fraser to reduce lumber production by 25 million bf due to production curtailments
West Fraser announced it will implement temporary production curtailments over the holiday period at four of its British Columbia sawmills [...]
December 3, 2018
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Lumber prices in the US continue to rise
Framing lumber prices in the US carried some upward momentum last week, and the Random Lengths Framing Lumber Composite Price [...]
November 26, 2018
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British Columbia’s largest forestry delegation to visit China, Japan and South Korea at the end of 2018
Doug Donaldson, B.C. Forests/Rural Development Minister, is taking a large forestry-sector delegation to three Asian countries this [...]
November 22, 2018
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Georgia-Pacific completes $100-Million lumber facility in Alabama
Georgia-Pacific celebrated the official start of production at its newest lumber facility in Talladega, Alabama. The $100-million, 300 [...]
November 20, 2018
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US lumber production up by 5%; Canadian output falls
U.S. sawmills produced 23.855 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first eight months of 2018 [...]
November 20, 2018
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US softwood lumber prices on the rise in mid-November
US softwood lumber traders absorbed a heavy news week that sent mixed signals to an uncertain marketplace. However, chief among [...]
November 19, 2018
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Canadian lumber companies in trouble: high log prices and low supply cause production curtailments
Hundreds of sawmill workers are being laid off in B.C., some of them permanently, despite recent record profits made [...]
November 16, 2018
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Russia boosts lumber exports in January-September 2018
In January-September 2018, Russia increased its softwood lumber exports, both in value and in volume terms, indicate the statistics [...]
November 16, 2018
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