Month: February 2025

190 posts

Real American Hardwood Advertising Campaign Exceeds Expectations

Over the past two years, the Real American Hardwood Coalition (RAHC) united the collective efforts of the hardwood industry, engaged with creative minds and entertainment partners, and launched its Build Your World® advertising campaign—the industry’s first-ever, collaborative national advertising campaign targeting consumers. And the numbers are in. During two, six-month runs spanning the second halves […]

Why Knot, Why Knot

Why Knot, Why Knot My maternal grandmother, Florence Spear, was 101 when she passed away in 2006. I was 29 then, and her life left a profound impact on me. She had been a widow for 28 years and lived next to us for seven years when I was a kid. Elegant and refined, she […]

Who’s Who in Hardwoods – February 2025

Who’s Who in Hardwoods – February 2025 Kennebec Lumber Offers Northern Hardwood Species Chantal Callahan is a hardwood industrial sales representative, as well as marketing manager, for Kennebec Lumber Company. Headquartered in Solon, ME, Kennebec Lumber purchases between four and five million board feet of hardwood lumber annually. Kennebec Lumber has multiple sawmill operations specializing […]

Quebec Business Trends – February 2025

  Quebec Business Trends – February 2025 As most businesses usually enter a slower time of year during the Holiday Season, with planned downtime, this year some businesses extended that time due to most markets not performing well. Also, winter weather conditions have been milder and the ground is not frozen enough for logging activity. […]

Ontario Business Trends – February 2025

Ontario Business Trends – February 2025 According to published statistics, lumber production was down both in Canada and the U.S. at year end 2024. Some secondary manufacturers and sawmills had reported a drop in orders and extended plant shutdowns over the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Log supplies were declining for sawmills as temperatures […]

Newswires

Atlanta Hardwood Corporation Partners With Oy Lunawood Ltd Atlanta Hardwood Corporation and Oy Lunawood Ltd recently announced the formation of a joint venture, Lunawood LLC. This new entity will oversee the procurement, production and sales of ThermoWood® and other thermally modified products across North America. Under this joint venture, Lunawood LLC will build a production […]

Business Trends Abroad

Central and West Africa – Over the past few weeks, the timber industry in the Central African Republic has faced significant challenges due to widespread heavy rain that has interrupted harvesting and transportation, according to the most recent data available at press time. For an extended period, almost no logs have been delivered to the […]

What’s The Story With November 2024 Southern Pine Exports?

The most recent data available from the USDA’s Foreign Agriculture Services’ Global Agricultural Trade System, and published by the Softwood Forest Products Association. Exports of Southern Pine lumber (treated and untreated) are running 10 percent ahead of 2023 year-to-date, according to the most recent data available from the USDA’s Foreign Agriculture Services’ Global Agricultural Trade […]

West Coast Business Trends – February 2025

West Coast Business Trends – February 2025 Across the West Coast sources that were contacted agreed that their sales continued to stay on trend for what they have been over the course of the past year. While a source from California noted that he’s pleased to see an upward trend in his sales over the […]

Southeast Business Trends – February 2025

Southeast Business Trends – February 2025 In the Southeastern United States, there were reports of slowdowns in companies and many lumber representatives have blamed either the lack of demand, the economy or both.  In North Carolina, a lumber spokesman commented that the market in his area is “pretty slow right now” and worse than the […]