Market Analysis

Canfor to reduce production due to supply chain challenges

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is announcing temporary NBSK and BCTMP production reductions at Northwood Pulp and Taylor Pulp in response [...]

UK’s sawn timber supplies could face uncertainty in 2022

The widespread material shortages in the UK are softening but sawn timber could both face issues going into the new [...]

Russia to raise export duties for lumber

Russian government has increased export duties for lumber with a moisture content of more than 22%, and a thickness and [...]

West Fraser’s lumber shipments drop up to 30% on BC floods

    West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. said weekly lumber shipments from the west of the country plunged [...]

Impact of the Russia log export ban on the supply of sawlogs to China

How will the supply of sawlogs in China develop next year, when Russia stops exporting logs?     [...]

European and N. America sawmills see profits plunge in 3Q

Sawmills in Europe and North America enjoyed record profits during the first half of 2021, but fell in the 3Q [...]

New Zealand log export prices fall considerably in November

    In November, New Zealand prices for exported logs to China dropped on average $18 per m3 [...]

Reactions to US decision to double Canadian softwood lumber tariffs

    As the U.S. Department of Commerce issued its final determination in the second administrative review [...]

US doubles Canadian softwood lumber tariffs

    The U.S. Department of Commerce released its final determination for the Second Administrative Review (AR2 [...]