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Canada's lumber industry has been able to survive the impacts of preliminary duties, largely thanks to soaring lumber prices. While industry production will remain virtually flat this year, industry revenues are on pace to grow by 8 per cent, according to The Conference Board of Canada's Canadian Industrial Outlook: Wood Products Manufacturing – Autumn 2017.
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Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes increased five points to a level of 74 in December on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) after a downwardly revised November reading. This was the highest report since July 1999, over 18 years ago, the National Association of Home Builders said.
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Kate Lindsay is the Forest Products Association of Canada's vice-president of sustainability and environmental partnerships. She recently wrote a Letter to the Editor which was published in The Chronicle-Journal in response to an opinion piece criticizing the forest industry's views on saving caribou populations while still implementing sustainable forestry practices.
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Meet this week’s forestry star Antoine Larochelle Benoit. Antoine is forest engineer and owner of LB Profor, in Windsor, Que.
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CFI toured Fornebu Lumber sawmill located near Bathurst, N.B., to hear how the mill has improved recovery and boosted feed speeds through a combination of a change in culture and capital projects. General manager Michael Godin and Safety & Training co-ordinator Christian Fournier gave us a warm welcome!
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Private timberland company TimberWest announced that it has both signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pacheedaht First Nation, and renewed a MoU with the Malahat First Nation.
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Are you a manufacturer or researcher in the sawmill industry offering an innovative optimization or automation option that can help sawmill operations succeed? Send us your presentation proposal for OptiSaw.
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January 16-18, 2018
Location: Prince George, B.C.
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January 25, 2018
Location: Heathman Lodge — Vancouver, Wash.
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