North America

Top global lumber companies: large acquisitions and expansions continue

With lumber companies being flush with cash from record prices in 2020 and 2021, there continues to be several new [...]

Canfor hardest-hit by US lumber duties

Canfor Corp. is bearing the brunt as new tariffs on softwood lumber exports into the United States come into effect [...]

China: Rising volumes and CIF prices for log imports

According to China Customs, log imports in the third quarter of 2021 totalled 48.4 million cubic metres valued at [...]

N. American lumber prices are back up 120% since summer

    When the North American lumber bubble popped this summer, economists and commodity traders alike pointed to [...]

Egger plans to expand production in North America

    Egger Wood Products announced that it intends to invest $50 million in additional equipment for its [...]

N. American lumber prices rebound as Canadian floods curb shipments

    North American lumber prices are poised to return to highs last seen in June after heavy [...]

Drax plans to double pellet production to 8 mil. tons

Drax Group plc on Dec. 1 announced plans to double its biomass pellet production to 8 million metric tons per [...]

Canfor to reduce production due to supply chain challenges

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is announcing temporary NBSK and BCTMP production reductions at Northwood Pulp and Taylor Pulp in response [...]

West Fraser’s lumber shipments drop up to 30% on BC floods

    West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. said weekly lumber shipments from the west of the country plunged [...]

Impact of the Russia log export ban on the supply of sawlogs to China

How will the supply of sawlogs in China develop next year, when Russia stops exporting logs?     [...]