Month: August 2023

182 posts

Paper Excellence delays Crofton mill restart; workers anxious: Unifor

Paper Excellence delays Crofton mill restart; workers anxious: UniforJennifer Ellson Members of…

New Brunswick releases new forest management strategy

New Brunswick releases new forest management strategyJennifer Ellson The New Brunswick government…

Ontario expands skilled trades career fairs

Ontario expands skilled trades career fairsJennifer Ellson Over 25,000 students in grades…

CFI announces the Top 20 Under 40 winners for 2023

CFI announces the Top 20 Under 40 winners for 2023Jennifer Ellson Canadian…

Austria: Softwood lumber prices halved in recent months

Sales of Austrian sawmills have collapsed: while the warehouses are full of…

UK timber industry stabilizes as construction declines

The timber industry in the UK is currently experiencing a period of…

New Zealand: Higher log prices in China, but the market is still fragile

AWG prices increased an average of $15 due to the higher CFR…

The Finnish forestry sector is preparing to comply with the EUDR

The European Union’s Deforestation Regulation will create a huge bureaucratic burden for…

Some Lumber Prices Rise as August Wanes

Those looking for a trend line of where lumber prices are going, after these three years of severe volatility, might soon be able to glean some answers. Currently the weekly price of benchmark lumber commodity item WSPF 2×4 is close to matching that of two years ago. Looking at the top graph here on this […] The post Some Lumber Prices Rise as August Wanes first appeared on Madison’s Lumber Reporter.

Illegal timber from Russia and Belarus is flooding Poland

The wood market in Poland is experiencing a significant surge in the…