by Web Editor | Jul 31, 2014 | The Issues
Gee, those Canadian forest products companies apparently grew increasingly perturbed about those taxes the U.S. has been putting on Canadian softwood lumber all of these years. They finally figured out—why ship lumber to the U.S. South, when you can go down there and...
by Web Editor | Aug 16, 2013 | News
A bench marking study recently completed by The Beck Group reveals that among producers of Southern Pine lumber, mills focused on producing wide lumber (particularly 2×12) were more profitable in 2012 than mills that were not. Typically the large logs that yield wide...
by Web Editor | Jun 6, 2012 | News
During this first half of 2012, some faint glimmers of hope have appeared for the recovery of home construction markets, perhaps in the not-too-distant future. Building permits are up one month, down a bit the next. Indexes measuring builder confidence have reached a...
