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Taiwan 's new wood frame building code could mean up to 10,000 additional wood frame construction starts in that country by 2010.
The code proclamation by the Taiwanese Construction and Planning Administration (CPA) end of october establishes new building codes and standards for wood frame construction in Taiwan, based on North American codes and standards.
Development of the code was a North A... [more...]
The Canadian Council of Forest Industries (COFI) started in Japan a 2x4 promotion campaign. The goal is to increase 2x4 starts in Japan to 100,000 units annually. The campaign period runs from September 1st 2003 until January 31st 2004 . During this period homeowners who construct a 2x4 home made with Canadian SPF dimension lumber can enter a draw in which three-homeowners will be randomly selecte... [more...]
Tembec announced that it plans to temporarily shut down two of its sawmills on December 1st. The Béarn, Québec and Cochrane, Ontario sawmills have been negatively impacted by the unwarranted and illegal countervailing and antidumping export duties imposed on softwood lumber by the US. The low stud lumber prices combined with the considerable strengthening of the Canadian dollar have aggravated the... [more...]
New Zealand?s forestry industry representatives have been invited to Wellington to meet with Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton to discuss the industry's development strategy. The Timber Industry Federation appears to think that the government is hostile to business and views industry as 'some sort of necessary evil,. The moves come as a number of firms lay-off workers or close plants du... [more...]
Coniferous standing sales prices in Great Britain were 19.9 percent lower in real terms in the year to September 2003, compared with the previous year.
This continues the the downward path in coniferous standing sales prices, but is a less steep decline than in the year to September 2002, when pricesdeclined by 28.6% in real terms.
The average price per cubic metre overbark standing was £5.15... [more...]
The Finnish forest industries strongly opposes the proposed changes to the plant health directive. According to plans all coniferous wood imported into the EU would have to be inspected before crossing the border.
If the amendment enters into force as planned, Finnish forest companies' wood imports from Russia will become more difficult and costs will rise because of inspection fees.
"Finlan... [more...]
NEPCon, the certification partner of the SmartWood Program of the Rainforest Alliance, has completed the Forest Management certification of STF Strug. Assessed and certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) system, the Strug forest certification area covers 18,444 hectares, located in the European part of Russia.
NEPCon carried out the pre-assessment of Strug, which is a subsidiary co... [more...]
Canadian Forest Products announced the conclusion of registration audits for its Houston Operations in the Morice Timber Supply Area and for the Fort St. John Timber Supply Area (TSA) Pilot Project, both in the northern interior of British Columbia. The audits were conducted by KPMG Performance Registrar Inc and resulted in both operations being recommended for certification to the Canadian Standa... [more...]
Canfor received the preliminary ruling today from the US Department of Commerce's expedited review of countervailing duties (CVD) currently applied to softwood lumber products from Canada. The Department of Commerce has reduced Canfor's CVD from 18.79% to 12.24%.
David Emerson, President and CEO: "The reduction of our CVD rate confirms what we have been saying all along and that is the that Canfo... [more...]
Consolidated gross sales for the fourth quarter ended September 27, 2003 were $838.6 million, down from $877.1 million in the comparable period last year. The Company generated a net loss of $51.5 million ($0.60 per share), compared to a restated net loss of $77.2 million ($0.89 per share) in the corresponding quarter ended September 28, 2002, and net earnings of $70.5 million ($0.82 per share) in... [more...]