Exporting countries from the point of view, metal molds exported to the U. S. Ranked first, followed by Britain, Germany and Japan. U. S. Hand tools market demand stable. U. S. New home housing market at the end of the scale increased, ...
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U. S. And Canada are prepared to extend a shaky softwood lumber trade agreement put in place seven years ago to benefit local mills, a U. S. Lumber lobbyist said Thursday in Longview. If approved, both sides will revisit the contract in ...
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Canfor is permanently closing two mills in British Columbia (BC). The closures affect the Rustad sawmill in Prince George and Tackama plywood mill in Fort Nelson. The mills had been the subject of a lengthy indefinite shutdown since the ...
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Machinery stocks may outperform the market through the end of the year as new orders rebound, helping to defy concerns about another U. S. Recession. American manufacturers booked $32.6 billion in new orders for machinery equipment in ...
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There is an old adage that says, he more things change, the more they stay the same. I never have found that one to be functionally practical the way many old sayings can often be. Maybe it actually refers to technology changing and human ...
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West Coast log and lumber exports in the first nine months of the year already have surpassed exports for all of 2010, largely because of Chinese demand, the U. S. Forest Service reported Monday. Along the entire West Coast, log exports ...
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In this edition of my column I would like to put lumber into the spotlight. A commodity like oil is a good indicator of the state of the economy, but perhaps the price developments of random length lumber futures can give us also a clue as ...
Tags: industry trends, lumber, economic upturn
MONTREAL - Forest products company Tembec is exiting the hardwood flooring business as it shutters a 108-year operation in Huntsville, Ont., and sells another facility in Toronto to a private company for $13 million. The Montreal-based ...
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Wolseley has finally exited its US building supplies business with the sale of its remaining stake in Stock Building Supply for £15m. For Wolseley it represents the final chapter in its building materials business in the US as it ...
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Nov 10 (Reuters) - Western Forest Products posted a rise in its third-quarter profit on improved demand for the Canadian company's lumber and log products. July-September net income was C$7.6 million, or 2 Canadian cents a share, up from ...
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China's appetite for Canadian lumber has reached a peak, according to new figures from Canfor Corp. (CFP-T10.21-0.12-1.16%), the Vancouver company that pioneered sales of British Columbia wood in the country. Canfor said late Thursday that ...
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It is said that the next two years, the domestic architectural hardware products will also move toward intelligent, humane development. The international metal market dynamics, developed countries have low-grade products to accelerate the ...
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According to AMA prospects for the tiles market into the medium-term will be determined by the timing, strength and pace of recovery of the economy, which in mid 2011 still remains relatively fragile. The short-term outlook indicates only ...
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It's been a tough go for the flooring industry, any industry, for that matter, since the housing market collapsed in the summer of 2006. For an industry still getting its feet wet, the recession could have spelled doom, which is what makes ...
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By the middle of the second quarter in 2010, wood flooring manufacturers began to think the talk about the recession having officially ended a year prior was finally coming true in their neck of the forest. Then, at the end of April, the ...
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