North America

Lumber prices in the US drop, yet remain higher than a year ago

The wintry weather has affected the framing lumber sales last week, while it also caused production and transportation problems.  [...]

US Trade Commission proceeds with the potential import duties on Canadian lumber

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) will keep on with its investigation into antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of [...]
January 21, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / North America

SCA Group starts work for splitting into hygiene and forest products companies

SCA, the leading global hygiene and forest products company, has started the work on splitting the SCA Group into two [...]

Trump administration postpones EPA formaldehyde regulation

President Trump issued an Executive Order over the weekend that freezes all recently published EPA regulations for a 60-day [...]

Global pulpwood prices reach lowest level in 10 years

Pulpwood costs have fallen substantially worldwide with the softwood and hardwood pulpwood price indices in the 4Q/15 being at [...]

Lumber prices in the US recover during March

Amid some mixed sentiment, framing lumber prices increased last week in U.S. Weather clouded the views of traders in [...]

Paris improves wood pellets use for urban heating; US to supply the demand

Paris plans to improve the use of renewable energy in the urban heating system by importing thousands of tonnes of [...]

Trudeau-Obama meeting might solve lumber trade dispute

Justin Trudeau’s visit to the Washington helped developing a closer connection in the solving of the ongoing Softwood Lumber [...]

Lumber production in Canada increased by 8% in 2015

The Canadian lumber production increased by 8% in 2015, compared to 2014. Thus, production summed 26.7 billion board feet [...]

Softwood lumber global trade reaches 10-year high in 2015

A majority of the 20 largest softwood lumber-consuming countries in the world increased their importation of lumber in 2015 [...]