Month: July 2026

160 posts

Wood: Making High-Performance Homes Palatable

Strip away the marketing and a high-performance house is a machine: heat pumps, solar arrays, continuous air barriers, triple-glazed everything. Builders are getting remarkably good at making these houses perform. What they haven’t solved is making them feel like somewhere you’d want to live. That’s where wood comes in. A recent North Shore project makes […] The post Wood: Making High-Performance Homes Palatable appeared first on NELMA.

Limited Supply Keeps Lumber Prices Buoyant

As the usual mid-summer quietude arrived, activity around lumber sales remained quite robust. Transportation constraints loomed large, so most of this activity was focussed on wrangling delivery. Due to delays sourcing trucks and even more so rail cars, sawmills actually had notable supply in their yards waiting to go out to impatient customers. This situation […] The post Limited Supply Keeps Lumber Prices Buoyant first appeared on Madison’s Lumber Reporter.

Pfeifer doubles output at its Finnish flagship sawmill

Pfeifer’s Kajaani plant looks different than it did two years ago. The…

SCA Q2 2026: Sawmill business went through its worst margin squeeze in years

SCA’s sawmill business recorded the sharpest earnings deterioration across the group in…

Trump’s new round of 50% tariffs spare most of Canada’s timber trade

On Monday, the United States government invoked a trade law it had…

European sawmills starve for logs as Brussels tightens the rules

Brussels’ rulebook is placing enormous strain on both the forest sector and…

Latvia’s €50 million timber scandal deepens as prosecutors move to overturn government support scheme

For more than two years, Latvia’s timber industry has been living with…

Lumber hits a one-year figh as fires rage in Canada

Lumber prices pushed past $640 per thousand board feet this week, the…

What the UCO Market Reveals About Crude Tall Oil Demand

What the UCO Market Reveals About Crude Tall Oil DemandResourceWise At first…

Why an Austrian sawmill dynasty is buying into Scandinavia?

There is a certain irony in the fact that HS Timber Group’s…