Compared with the previous month, production was down 5%.
Lumber
Compared with August 2025, production was down 4%.
Index drops $7 from one month ago following $11 decline since early September.
The change will primarily affect European lumber measured after drying and planing.
Imports of lumber to China upped 1.0%.
Price for softwood lumber imported to China rose 1.2%.
Price for lumber exported from Belarus to China rose marginally 0.4%.
Friday's $13 drop was the steepest session of the week, the fourth straight day of declines.
Exports of lumber from New Zealand fell marginally 0.6%.
The seven-year facility will provide liquidity as the lumber producer plans to restore two-shift operations.
The projects could create more than 200 jobs and add annual demand for over 100 thousand tonnes of forest biomass.
Prices fell 1.2% from July but remained up 8.6% from a year earlier; Canada's broader factory-gate prices were up 13.5% year over year.
The Ashland Sawmill project is expected to create and retain the equivalent of 220 permanent full-time jobs.
Dealers report higher supplier prices, reduced Canadian shipments and longer lead times after the duties took effect.
Imports of lumber to India grew only 0.9%.
Lumber prices rose 3.8% month over month and 5.0% year over year.
Production centralises to Oulu, Oulainen, and Kalajoki sawmills as log costs pressure profitability.
Index falls $5 from one month ago despite $7 gain since early September.
Price for lumber imported to Kazakhstan rose 3%.
Price for lumber exported from the EU to MENA grew only 0.2%.