Mercer International Inc. recently announced the temporary curtailment of operations at its Celgar pulp mill located in Castlegar, BC, including wood acceptance. The curtailment is currently scheduled to become effective July 29, 2023, until August 28, 2023. This temporary curtailment results from a significant loss of rail transport capacity resulting from the Vancouver port job […]
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Mar
Mar
Conifex Timber Inc. will be temporarily curtailing its Mackenzie, British Columbia (BC) sawmill commencing February 21, 2023 for up to two weeks. Unsustainable inventory levels due to rail transportation challenges impacting the interior BC region have necessitated this step. Conifex will closely monitor its inventory levels and evolving transportation availability over this period as the rail network […]
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Jan
Jan
In November 2022, the exports of lumber from Sweden expanded 39% year-on-year to 857.6 thousand m3. the average price for lumber exported from Sweden in November 2022 decreased 8% compared to the previous month and amounted to $247 per m3. This is 39% less than a year ago when it was $407. Source: Lesprom Network
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Nov
Nov
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has announced a 15-25% price increase for both its printing & writing paper and business communication paper in Japan. The revised price is effective for shipments on and after the 1st of February 2023. “Despite our productivity and cost-cutting initiatives, we are not able to continue to absorb this combination […]
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Mar
Mar
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is likely to impact global trade in the coming months. Increased sanctions against trading with Russia and difficulty with financial transactions will probably interrupt and re-direct shipments of forest products throughout the world, according to Wood Resources International LLC (WRI). As a result, trade with Russia will likely decline, impacting long-established […]
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Aug
Aug
The latest construction framing dimension softwood lumber and panel price movement downward in North America has been enough to motivate previously reluctant customers to start making purchases again. Other circumstances, like wildfires and extreme heat in the usual timber supply areas, are adding uncertainty to how the rest of 2021 summer is going to go, […]
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Jun
Jun
Resolute Forest Products recently announced additional capital investments of $50 million in its wood products operations to support its continued growth, and it confirmed the repayment of all amounts outstanding under its revolving and term credit facilities, reducing debt by $180 million in the second quarter. “The cash generated with our lumber platform in these […]
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May
May
VEB.RF, a Russian state development corporation and one of the largest investment companies in the country, will launch one of the largest pulp productions in Russia at the capacities of its Kraslesinvest enterprise. The new production will be commissioned on the basis of already existing timber processing complex of the company in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. […]
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Apr
Apr
Rayonier Advanced Materials and GreenFirst Forest Products Inc., a Canadian lumber company, announced today that the parties have entered into a binding asset purchase agreement pursuant to which RYAM has agreed to sell all of its lumber and newsprint facilities and related assets located in Ontario and Québec to GreenFirst for an expected purchase price of approximately US$214 million including inventory […]
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Dec
Dec
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) released the first administrative review of softwood lumber duties on Canadian exports to the U.S. The new combined countervailing (CVD) and antidumping (AD) rate is 8.99 percent. This is down from the current rate of 20.23 percent. The governments of B.C., Alberta, and Saskatchewan have each released a statement […]
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