by Kirkland | Oct 20, 2020 | News
Single-Family Housing Starts Rise Again U.S. housing starts reached a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.415 million in September, a 1.9% increase above August and an 11.1% increase over September 2019. Single-family starts carried the day at 1.108 million in September, a...
by Kirkland | Sep 18, 2020 | News
Single-Family Housing Starts Go Up According to the U.S. Census Bureau monthly new residential construction report, U.S. single-family housing starts continued their climb in August, reaching 1.021 million, a 4.1% increase over July and 12% above August a year ago....
by Kirkland | Sep 17, 2020 | News
Oregon Road Closures Hit Log Truck Routes Oregon forest products operators are facing more challenges thanks to the indefinite closure of key state highway transportation routes that connect the high Cascades and central Oregon with key log markets in the Willamette...
by Kirkland | Sep 17, 2020 | News
Louisiana Mills Endure Hurricane Laura The first major hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Laura, made landfall at peak intensity in Cameron, La. on August 27. The storm was the 10th-strongest U.S. hurricane to make landfall by windspeed on...
by Kirkland | Sep 16, 2020 | News
U.S. Says WTO Ruling Misfires U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer says a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel report applies an “erroneous Appellate Body interpretation” and would shield Canada’s massive lumber subsidies from U.S. action imposing...
by Kirkland | Sep 9, 2020 | News
Pellet Mill Planned For South Carolina Effingham Pellets, a subsidiary of Charles Ingram Lumber Co., plans to invest $5.4 million to establish a wood pellet operation in Florence County, SC that will produce and supply wood pellets for export sale to Europe. “We...
