North America

Lumber prices increase again as Canada’s biggest producers reduce output

Lumber futures rose to the highest in a month as some of Canada’s biggest producers reduce output and transportation [...]

N. American wood pellet exports at record high in 2021

  North American wood pellet exports hit a record high in 2021, boosted by demand from Asia and the [...]

Canfor permanently reduces production capacity at Plateau sawmill

    Canfor announced Tuesday (Feb. 15) that they are permanently reducing production capacity at the Plateau sawmill [...]
February 24, 2022 Forestry / Sawmilling / ...North America

Sharp rise in CIF prices for China’s softwood log imports

According to China Customs, log imports in 2021 totalled 63.58 million cubic metres valued at US$11.594 billion [...]

Softwood lumber production in US up slightly in Jan.-Nov. 2021

    Recovering somewhat from multiple supply disruptions, for January to November 2021 softwood lumber production volumes across [...]

Transport issues forces West Fraser Timber to curtail lumber production

    Massive flooding late last year that washed away rail tracks and shut highways in Western Canada [...]

Global supply chain chaos could worsen this year

According to a survey conducted by Container Xchange, a container leasing and trading platform, among 800 practitioners in the logistics [...]

Prices for imported softwood logs in China start to pick up as inventories fall

Domestic log prices in China have continued to firm in the last 4 weeks with the Chinese Government implementing a [...]

N. American lumber prices are up 30% in February

     Lumber has surged nearly 30% so far this month in step with the wider rally in [...]

N. American lumber surges again as supplies shrink

Lumber is on a tear again, bringing back the specter of increasing construction costs.    Lumber futures [...]