North America

Amazon might reach no. 1 furniture retailer in the US

Wayfair, the largest specialized online furniture retailer in the U.S., redoubled its efforts in search and TV advertising last [...]

Moody’s forecast for global paper and forest products industry upgrades to ‘positive’

Moody’s Corporation, bond credit rating business Moody’s Investors Service, has released a report which has changed the outlook [...]

US wood pellets production boosts during Q1/2018

Pellet production in the US amounted to 406,380 tonnes of pellets for the heating market and 1,431m tonnes [...]

Softwood lumber production in the US grows, while Canadian production falls

    US sawmills produce 8.557 bbf of softwood lumber in first three months of 2018, up [...]

US lumber prices fell during last week

    Prices for framing lumber in the US continued to go down, but in some cases the [...]

Current state and forecast of the US plywood market

The U.S. plywood market totaled 13.1M cubic metres in 2017, a decline of 3.1M cubic metres (or [...]

Global softwood lumber prices increased during Q1/2018

    Global softwood lumber prices continued their two-year climb in the Q1/18 with the pace [...]

Strong European sawn softwood market due to booming demand in US and China

On the 15th of  June 2018, the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) held its Summer General Assembly in [...]

Booming costs for US homebuilding due to lumber tariffs

Last week, Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, addressed attendees at the National Association of [...]

Canadian lumber companies invest in capacity expansions in the US

As lumber costs remain at historically high levels, lumber companies are investing those profits into strengthening their positions and increasing [...]