Forest Products Market Update
- a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC
Wood costs have remained unchanged for Canadian pulp mills in 2009
despite tighter wood chip supply, reports the North American Wood
Fiber Review.
The pulp industry in...
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Forest Products Market Update
- a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC
Wood costs have remained unchanged for Canadian pulp mills in 2009
despite tighter wood chip supply, reports the North American Wood
Fiber Review.
The pulp industry in Canada has sharply reduced production the past two years both as a
result of weaker pulp and paper markets worldwide and also because of less competitive
pulp manufacturing facilities.
Wood costs have increased for many plants as the result of
reduced availability of relatively inexpensive sawmill residuals, according to the North
American Wood Fiber Review.
Seattle, USA.
November, 2009.
Wood fiber supply to Canadian pulp mills has shifted
from lower-cost residual chips from local sawmills to higher-cost wood chips
manufactured from roundwood.
The low operating rates for many sawmills has decreased
the availability of relatively inexpensive residual chips, which has forced many pulp mills
to either reduce production or to furnish the
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