Keyword: lumber

Canfor announces new production curtailments

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

China sharply reduces imports of Russian logs and boosts imports of lumber

    In January-May, log imports to China from Russia declined 26.2% y-o-y to [...]

Binderholz to double sales to the US market

  Austrian Binderholz is planning to boost its US business through a holding company established specifically for this purpose [...]

Chinese softwood lumber imports went 17% up during Jan.-May 2019

In January-May 2019, China increased softwood lumber imports by 17.1% year-on-year to 11.6 million m3 [...]

Lumber prices in the US keep on going up through the end of June

    The frenzied pace of trading in many US framing lumber species in recent weeks gave way [...]

Conifex sells Fort St. James sawmill to Hampton Lumber

Conifex Timber Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Hampton Lumber for the sale of [...]

Global lumber-exporting countries increased their shipments in early 2019

    The uptick in demand for lumber continued in early 2019, with most of the major lumber [...]

Massive curtailments in BC push US softwood lumber prices up

Additional and significant curtailments announced in British Columbia jolted the framing lumber market out of a five-week losing streak [...]

France: Lumber prices list for Q1/2019

    The following price list is a collection of prices for lumber and wood products in France [...]

Overview of current sawmill production curtailments in BC

Hardly a week goes by that we’re not hearing of new sawmill curtailments or closures in B.C.  For [...]