by Kirkland | Feb 20, 2023 | News
Canfor Plans New BC Sawmill Canfor Corp. stated that to better align manufacturing capacity in British Columbia with the available long-term fiber supply, it is restructuring its BC operations by permanently closing its Chetwynd sawmill and pellet plant and...
by Kirkland | Feb 16, 2023 | News
U.S. Housing Starts Were Soft In January U.S. housing starts began the new year ticking downward 4.5% in January from December to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.309 million starts. Single-family starts came in at a rate of 841,000 in January, down 4.3%, while...
by Kirkland | Jan 24, 2023 | News
Lumber Among Three Big Input Reductions Softwood lumber is one of the three largest construction input cost reductions year-over-year from December 2021 to December 2022, according to a recent ConstructionDive market report. Citing Producer Price Index data...
by Kirkland | Jan 19, 2023 | News
Biofuels Project Sinks The Red Rock Biofuels project in southern Oregon appears headed for foreclosure according to notices published in the Lake County Examiner newspaper in late December after the company failed to make principal and interest payments on some...
by Kirkland | Jan 19, 2023 | News
Structurlam Temporarily Suspends Arkansas Operations Structurlam Mass Timber Corp., a mass timber manufacturer in North America, has announced it is temporarily suspending operations and reducing staff at its Conway, Ark., plant due to a customer contract...
by Kirkland | Jan 19, 2023 | News
Vaagen Puts Emphasis On Midway Closure Vaagen Fibre Canada (an affiliate of Vaagen Brothers Lumber) announced it is shutting down its Midway, BC sawmill indefinitely, while indicating it is looking for solutions to keep the operation going, and encouraging...
