Interfor announced corporate initiatives to address the market conditions resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak. The company is planning to reduce […]
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U.S. – Canadian Border Temporarily Closed to All Non Essential Travel
The United States and Canada have jointly announced that they have agreed to temporally close their shared borders to nonessential […]
Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey for January 2020
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just posted its Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for January. Given the […]
Katerra Announces Nick Milestone as Their Director of Mass Timber
Katerra has announced that Nick Milestone has recently been hired and will be taking on the role of director of […]
Single-Family Housing Starts & Permits Rise in February
The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that privately‐owned housing starts in February were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of […]
Freres Lumber Takes on the Challenges of Mass Plywood Panel Production
Rob Freres, president of Freres Lumber Company says, that going from a manufacturer of ‘commodity plywood’ to mass plywood panels […]
Boston Halts All Construction Projects Due to the Coronavirus Crisis
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Monday ordered a stop to all construction projects in the city, citing concerns about […]
Builders Confidence Dips 2-points in March
The latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) indicates that builder confidence in the market for […]
Atlantic Plywood Announces Opening of 2 Southeast Locations
Atlantic Plywood, a distributor of industrial wood products and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parksite, has announced that they are […]
Western Forest Products Inc. Announces Sale of Ownership Interests in TFL 44 LP and Alberni Pacific Division Sawmill to Huu-ay-aht First Nations
In what is being described as a historic announcement Western Forest Products Inc. (“Western”) and Huumiis Ventures Limited Partnership (“Huumiis”), a […]