North America

Prospects for American Softwoods on the European market

American Softwoods Consultant, Charles Trevor, was interviewed by AEIM (Spanish Association of Wood Trade and Industry) and the article appeared [...]

Falling softwood lumber in US

The measured pace in US framing lumber trading that began in early July persisted into the latter part of the [...]

US lumber prices start to drop after weeks of growth

After several weeks of consistent growth, the US lumber prices fell quite considerably last week. On average, lumber prices fell [...]

Canfor announces new production curtailments

    Canfor Corporation announced further capacity reductions at two of its British Columbia sawmills with an indefinite [...]

U.S. sawmills rise lumber production; fall in Canadian output

Softwood lumber production by U.S. sawmills in the first four months of 2019 was 11.718 billion board ft [...]

Investment flows in global furniture industry starting to change

The recent globalisation trend, which has been so much a feature of the industry and contributed to the rapid expansion [...]

Vietnam takes benefit from the US/China trade war

    In the first three months of 2019 Vietnam’s wood product exports were valued at around [...]

West Fraser expects sharp drop in lumber production for 2019

The Canadian company reported lumber inventories reduced by approximately 150 million board feet in Q2/2019, and expects a 600 [...]

Conifex curtails Mackenzie sawmill

Conifex Timber Inc. announced that it will temporarily curtail its Mackenzie, British Columbia sawmill operations for two weeks commencing July [...]

Enviva to receive permit for wood pellet plant in Mississippi

    The 1.4 million metric tons production will be exported to power plants in Europe and [...]