Tembec reported that consolidated sales for the three-month period ended 25 June 2016, were $376m, as compared to $365m in the same quarter a year ago. The Company generated net earnings of $9 million or $0.09 per share in the June 2016 ...
Canfor saw its positive performance compared with last year continue in the third quarter as well. The Lumber business again fared much better than the Pulp and Paper division, as it had in previous quarters. Altogether the group raised its ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Although the upward trend identified on the US softwood-lumber market since June 2013 was still underway at the beginning of October, the rise appears to be gradually losing some of its momentum. According to information from market ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
In the first three months of 2013, the USA imported a total of 6.093m m3 of softwood lumber, representing a year-on-year rise of roughly 16%. According to figures issued by the Foreign Agriculture Service the value of imported softwood ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, softwood lumber
In the USA, the downward trend in softwood-lumber prices which started at the end of March 2013 continued undiminished last week. The Framing Lumber Composite Price (FLCP) determined by Random Lengths showed week-on-week decline of a ...
Tags: Softwood-Lumber, wood
There is definitely a positive upward trend in residential home building. After years of weak demand for new construction, builders in most regions of the country are finally seeing more activity, bidding more work and signing more ...
Tags: Hardwood Flooring, Oak Flooring, Construction&Decoration
From kitchens and dining rooms, living rooms and bedrooms, there are few areas of the home that aren’t a great opportunity to upgrade your flooring. Whether your carpet has seen better days or your old hardwood flooring needs to be ...
Tags: Hollywood Wood Flooring, floor
The spring forecast by the Pellervo Economic Research Institute (PTT) in Finland predicts rising softwood lumber exports and higher selling prices for 2013. Overall, the Finnish sawmilling industry’s profitability is expected to be ...
Tags: Lumber Prices, Lumber Exports
After a short break at the end of January/beginning of February, the upward trend in softwood lumber prices on the US market has remained unabated over the last four weeks. According to Random Lengths, the price for the benchmark grade of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, softwood lumber
In north-western Russia, the profit situation in numerous sawmills has become more critical in recent weeks, as overpriced roundwood is contrasted by low lumber prices. In the Archangelsk region, softwood sawlogs are currently priced at an ...
Medium-sized sawmills in southern Germany were still not able to increase turnover in the final weeks of 2012. Numerous businesses accordingly claim to have closed out the 2012 financial year with losses. Many southern German sawmills have ...
Tags: sawmills, southern Germany, turnover, construction-timber
The Framing Lumber Composite Price published by the US news service Random Lengths rose at the beginning of December to a figure of $362/1,000 bdft, falling only $5 short of the last record level reached on 30 April 2010. Positive sales ...
Tags: Random Lengths, framing lumber, sales, risk business
The onset of winter in the last few days has accelerated an already seasonal reduction in demand on the German sales markets for softwood lumber. Irrespective of this, there have been no major slumps in softwood prices in the last two ...
Tags: softwood, German demand, softwood market, softwood lumber
On 26 October 2012, the Swedish Setra Group announced a reduction in sawing at its Vimmerby pine sawmill from two-shift to one-and-a-half shift operations until further notice. As a result, the mill‘s annual performance will be down ...
Tags: market view, sawmill
Softwood sawlog prices continued their slide throughout the world in the 2Q/12, and the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) was down for the fourth consecutive quarter to $82.90/m3. The Index was down 3.4 % from the 1Q/12, and 11.5 % from ...
Tags: market view, lumber, consumption