Housing Starts Continue Negative Pattern
Housing Starts Continue Negative PatternU.S. housing starts dropped 4.2% in October from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.425 million, including a drop in single-family starts of 6.1% to 855,000, and a modest decline of 0.5% in multi-family starts...
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Bat-Killing Fungal Disease Has U.S. Lumber Firms Fighting States
Greg Turner hoisted himself up with a rope from an unlighted 20-foot pit in an abandoned mine in Durham, Pennsylvania. His task of counting bats didn’t take long -- just seven where five years ago there were 4,000. “There’s nobody home, basically, at this point,” said...
Looming Lumber Shortage Expected To Bring Record Prices, European Imports
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...
Interfor Completes Acquisition Of Rayonier’s Wood Products Business
Interfor Completes Acquisition Of Rayonier’s Wood Products BusinessInternational Forest Products Limited (Interfor) announced that it had completed the acquisition of Rayonier's Wood Products Business in the U.S. South, as scheduled on March 1st. The acquisition...
Demand For Western Lumber Products Increases, While Log Supply Is Tight
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....
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