Quebec Business Trends – March 2025

Quebec Business Trends – March 2025 Demand Remains Lumber Species Specific As Industry Awaits Potential Tariff Increases Moving into 2025, businesses are facing more and more challenges, making it even harder to stay in business or even make a profit. The threat of tariffs, an election in Canada, competition from other foreign markets, the rising […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thunder Bay ready to take on Trump’s lumber tariffs: MPP

Thunder Bay ready to take on Trump’s lumber tariffs: MPPJennifer Ellson Softwood…