by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2013 | News
In 2012 and especially in Q1/2013, U.S.-based sawmills led all 32 global countries and regions surveyed in financial earnings, mainly from improved demand, a run up in lumber prices and from low log costs. This also meant that North American mills (including Canada)...
by Web Editor | Jul 22, 2013 | News
Economic recovery is producing promising outgrowths for the Southern lumber and timber industry. Increasing demand and constrained supply globally are inciting a long-term rebound across the U.S., which is good news for Florida where timber resources are an important...
by Web Editor | Jul 15, 2013 | News
Investors should always be on the lookout for a long-term financial trend, take a position early, and then ride it for all it’s worth. Such an opportunity could now be emerging in lumber, a long depressed commodity that could be on the cusp of better things. RBC...
by Web Editor | Mar 11, 2013 | News
There’s no way North American stud lumber sawmills will be able to keep up with the recovering U.S. housing market, new research being compiled by the International Wood Markets Group shows. The shortage of studs — boards used to frame walls in residential houses — is...
by Web Editor | Jan 16, 2013 | News
A new five-year outlook shows that supply and demand conditions in wood products for the long-awaited ‘super-cycle’ are now taking hold, with the full impact still some 3+ years away. With the return of a demand-driven wood products market in 2012 – due to rapidly...
