by Kirkland | Aug 17, 2020 | News
U.S. South Leads Lumber Production Western Wood Products Assn. reported that U.S. softwood lumber production was 35.165 billion SF in 2019, including 19.365 billion BF produced in the South and 14.254 billion BF produced in the West. Canadian softwood lumber...
by Web Editor | Jan 24, 2018 | News
North American softwood lumber production was up 0.6 percent in the third quarter of 2017 over 2016. The increase leveled off after increases of 1.8 percent in the first quarter and 1.7 percent in the second. Canada production declined 3.4 percent, says the Western...
by Web Editor | Mar 24, 2014 | News
The bitter winter froze homebuilders to start the year, but analysts and lumber producers expect demand to bounce back. Housing starts fell to an annual rate of 907,000 nationwide in February, down two-tenths of a percentage point from the January estimate, the U.S....
by Web Editor | Mar 6, 2013 | News
Hundreds of sawmill representatives gathered in Portland Monday for a trade association meeting. Thanks to a recovering housing market, the U.S. demand for lumber is increasing. Last year, sawmills in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho sold about 10 percent more lumber....
by Web Editor | Aug 29, 2012 | News
West Fraser Timber Co. and Western Forest Products Inc. are leading Canadian lumber producers to the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five-year highs to feed a U.S. housing rebound and near-record Chinese demand. Lumber mills in B.C., Canada’s...