by Kirkland | Feb 20, 2023 | News
Structurlam Looks To Reboot The temporary closure of Structurlam Mass Timber’s Conway, Ark. cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam plant and the apparent severing of the plant’s relationship as a major supplier for Walmart’s new low carbon footprint and energy...
by Kirkland | Feb 20, 2023 | News
Coalition Supports Duty Upgrade U.S. Dept. of Commerce announced the preliminary determination of a combined anti-subsidy and anti-dumping duty rate of 8.24% in the fourth annual review of allegedly subsidized traded Canadian softwood lumber imports into the...
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 | Feb 2, 2023 | Magazine
January/February 2023 Cover: 2023 PERSON(S) OF THE YEAR DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine – While greenfield sawmill announcements have dominated the sawmill news cycle in recent years, another approach was being executed in the Northeastern corner of the U.S., where Pleasant...
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...
