The Finnish Forest Industries Federation attributes the slight reduction in the domestic sawmilling industry’s lumber output in the first quarter of 2012 of roughly 2% to 2.3m m³ to comparatively difficult sales conditions on the ...
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Led by British Columbia, Canada emerged as the largest exporter of lumber in the world to China in 2011, surpassing Russia as the Middle Kingdom's No. 1 source for lumber. "We are king of the hill, " Gerry Van Leeuwen, of the Vancouver ...
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Although satisfactory sales opportunities in terms of volumes remain the most prevalent on the softwood lumber markets of North Africa and the Middle East in the early weeks of the second quarter, central European exporters believe the ...
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The depletion of the duty-free quota for softwood plywood imports into the European Union has slowed again during April. Just 45, 000m³ of the quota had been booked by 25 April. Nearly 182, 000m³ of the quota was used in January, ...
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Over the past decade, China’s fast expanding economy and boom in housing starts lifted the country to being the world’s largest importer of sawlogs and the second largest importer of softwood lumber, after the US, as reported in ...
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Over the past decade, China’s fast expanding economy and boom in housing starts lifted the country to being the world’s largest importer of sawlogs and the second largest importer of softwood lumber, after the U. S. China has ...
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VANCOUVER - Canfor Corp. (TSX: CFP) said Thursday it will spend $40 million on capital improvement projects at its sawmills in B. C. 's Kootenay region. The company plans to spend $38.5 million on a new planer, a biomass energy system and ...
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Since the beginning of April, Swiss softwood sawmills have shown a revival in demand from building companies and to a lesser extent from the pallet and packaging industry. However, in view of the positive figures for the Swiss building ...
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More timber is growing in UK forests than previously thought, according to a new Forestry Commission report. The Standing Timber Volume for Coniferous Trees in Britain says more timber is growing than indicated by previous assessments based ...
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Are yew pining for profits? Spruce up your trading and let the fir fly. The futures industry has always had something of a hate-hate relationship with forest products. Contracts on plywood and oriented strand board have bitten the sawdust ...
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Prince George, B. C. - Exports of wood pellets from North America reached a record high of over two million tons in 2011 according to the latest edition of North American Wood fibre review. The report says that while Canada has long been ...
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Jim Barna Log & Timber Homes, a well recognized American log home manufacturer started an exciting venture about five years ago by hiring Logdom LLC. As their exclusive international distributor for the Russian Federation. Since then, ...
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With a plus of 4% to roughly 115.7m m³, North American lumber production increased in 2011 for the second year in succession, although the upward trend weakened in comparison to that seen in 2010, which had shown a year-on-year rise of ...
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Canfor (TSX: CFP) announced today that further to its news release of November 28, 2011, it has completed the acquisition of the Tembec Industries Ltd. ("Tembec") southern British Columbia interior wood products assets consisting of the ...
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B. C. Is moving ahead with plans to build what is expected to be the tallest wood building in North America and possibly the world, Jobs Minister Pat Bell said Wednesday. The proposed 10-storey Wood Innovation and Design Centre in Prince ...
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