by Web Editor | Aug 26, 2013 | News
Total housing starts rose 35% year-over-year in the first quarter of this year, according to data from Deloitte. Single-family home construction contributed 500,000 jobs to the economy year-over-year in July, implying a thriving builder market. But many homebuilders...
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 | May 13, 2013 | News
U.S. lumber prices are falling in response to a late, cold spring in some parts of the country, and to a sharp first-quarter production increase by mills that may have overestimated gains in housing starts, lumber industry participants said. By early May, industry...
