Price for lumber exported from Sweden upped 1.4%.
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Custer Do It Best Hardware & Lumber will become R.P. Lumber’s 83rd location.
Exports of lumber from Lithuania grew 6%.
Egger takes the next step in the circular economy: first recycling collection site in Italy.
Western Forest Products intends to offer voluntary severance to the remaining 60 APD employees.
Exports of lumber from Latvia contracted 6%.
In the week ending April 5, 2024, the price of Western S-P-F 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$452 mfbm, said forest products industry price guide newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter. This is flat from the previous week when it was $452.
Two Rivers Lumber has committed to creating 130 jobs at the new Alabama sawmill, which will specialize in the production of Southern Yellow Pine dimensional lumber.
The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending April 12, 2024 was US$481 mfbm. This is down by -1%, or -$5, from the previous week when it was US$486.
Exports of lumber from Russia to Kazakhstan contracted 19%.
Sales in the wood product industry decreased by 0.2% from January.
Imports of lumber to United Kingdom lost 21%.
Metsä Fibre’s Rauma sawmill in Finland turns out a maximum of 40 logs per minute on a 130-meter sawline, reaching speeds up to 250 meters per minute.
This resurgence comes after a prolonged period of decline from July to February.
Canfor announces restructuring to position Alabama operations for the future.
In the week ending March 29, 2024, the price of Western S-P-F 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$452 mfbm, said forest products industry price guide newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter. This is flat from the previous week when it was $452.
Delivery and commissioning is tentatively planned for autumn 2024.
Price for lumber exported from the U.S. to India grew 12%.
Under the contract concluded, the municipal company sells the entire sawmill business as a whole without dividing it into parts. The transaction amounts to Euro 6 million (amount excluding VAT).
Richard Jarvis joined the division in 2019 as operations director with 30 years’ experience in the timber industry across manufacturing, sales, design and management.