by Web Editor | Dec 21, 2016 | News
Maine’s Katahdin Forest Products Mulls Sawmill Expansion Katahdin Forest Products, the Oakfield-based maker of cedar log homes, is considering expanding its sawmill in Ashland at the same time that a lumber dispute between the U.S. and Canada leaves a cloud of...
by Web Editor | Dec 19, 2016 | News
Global trade of softwood lumber is forecasted to increase by almost 14% in 2016, driven by higher wood demand in China and the US, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. The World Trade Organization (WTO) reported in September that world trade will expand by only...
by Web Editor | Dec 14, 2016 | News
Trump’s ‘Get Tough’ Trade Plan Could Benefit Maine Lumber Industry Maine sawmills and timber harvesters could benefit if President-elect Donald Trump goes through with a draft plan to aggressively renegotiate trade terms for competing softwood lumber imported from...
by Web Editor | Dec 9, 2016 | News
In WOOD MARKETS’ new five-year Softwood Lumber Chapter forecast, U.S. duties on Canadian lumber exports to the U.S. are expected to cause short-term chaos after they are announced in early Q2/2017. This new development alone completely changes all previous outlooks as...
by Web Editor | Dec 7, 2016 | News
Freres Lumber Unveils MPP, Adding Plant In 2017 Capitalizing on the current interest in building large-scale wooden buildings and more multi-story wooden structures, longtime Oregon plywood and veneer producer Freres Lumber has introduced the “Mass Plywood Panel”...
by Web Editor | Dec 2, 2016 | The Issues
Article by Jessica Johnson Associate Editor The year 2016 has been one for the history books. Just a quick read of the world’s headlines will confirm it. I would be lying if I said I was sad to see this one go…But, at the end of each calendar year, I find myself...
