by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2014 | News
The Weekly Hardwood Review Leading Hardwood Demand Indicator (LHDI)—a forecast of future demand for U.S. hardwood lumber based on residential and commercial construction, import/export trends, inflation levels, and job markets—declined to a nine-month low of 112.1 for...
by Web Editor | Oct 18, 2013 | News
With the fear of lumber shortages as strong as the outlook for 2014, lumber sales should hold steady through year-end even as North American manufacturing winds down for the winter. Global consumer confidence will also get a boost as the U.S. debt default is...
by Web Editor | Feb 11, 2013 | News
The University of Kentucky’s Department of Forestry has completed a project to help hardwood sawmills determine the feasibility of increasing revenues by selling carbon credits tied to their role in producing long-lived wood products that store carbon....
by Web Editor | Sep 12, 2011 | News
Coastal Lumber Ceases Operations Charlottesville, Va. based Coastal Lumber Co., long a major hardwood lumber producer, closed operations in mid-August. The company laid off 200 employees and shut down five sawmills in West Virginia, nearly 70 employees and the sawmill...
