Crow's Market Recap -- A condensed recap of the market conditions for the major North American softwood lumber and panel products as reported in Crow's Weekly Market Report.
SBCA has tried to foster a positive outcome to the Southern Pine Lumber (SP) design value issue. However, based on the letter issued by the SPIB this week, it appears SPIB is unwilling to consider any alternate approach to the one they took.
The southern pine situation illustrates what many builders and designers already know: Cold-formed steel framing is not just more stable, durable, strong and uniform than wood framing.
Canfor Corporation has decided to close its historic Rustad Sawmill in Prince George, British Columbia and Tackama Mill in Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
One of North America’s largest exporter of logs warns that a timber supply “shock” is fast approaching that will lead to significantly higher prices for logs and lumber as early as 2014.
Canada's uneasy forestry truce with the United States appears to be headed for a two-year extension that should keep the sniping at a low level into 2015.
Last month, the Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program commemorated its milestone of 1 million acres protected, at a cost of about $100 million, since its initiation in 2003.
Crow's Market Recap -- A condensed recap of the market conditions for the major North American softwood lumber and panel products as reported in Crow's Weekly Market Report.
