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Visitor traffic on the Forisk Blog increased 11% in 2018 over 2017, for a sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth. Thank you! Here are the top five posts from 2018, along with a few popular posts by topic: Forest Finance: more…
North America’s forest industry is more consolidated and globally competitive today because of the accelerated retooling of older mills and investments in leading technologies by firms following the Great Recession. With the exception of plywood, all forest industry sectors across more…
Forest industry press covers the capital investments in mills, housing starts, lumber prices, and consolidation across the forest industry supply chain. The question then comes up with colleagues and clients: what are we missing? What topics, themes and drivers should more…
Forisk has tracked and accumulated timberland transaction and ownership data since 2006. The ownership data goes back 50 years and the transaction data goes back 20 years to 1996. This provides context when reviewing year-over-year trends. In the past twelve more…
Forisk projects U.S. softwood lumber consumption of 49.8 BBFT in 2018. This represents a 3.7% increase from our 2017 forecast of 48.1 BBFT and is 5.4% higher than 2016 actuals of 47.3 BBFT. Softwood lumber consumption increased every year since more…
Last week Forisk hosted a “Wood Flows & Cash Flows” event in Atlanta where we discussed a range of our research applications. Included were detailed case studies and rankings of markets and wood demand, forest supplies, timberland ownership, bioenergy, and more…
This post includes an excerpt from the bioenergy research authored by Amanda Lang and Andrew Copley published in the Q3 2017 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) Publication. Forisk projects global demand for industrial wood pellets to grow at an annual compound more…
The historian Stephen Ambrose once said, “The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope.” This simple statement contains multitudes (to misappropriate another famous quote), but the sentiment provides some comfort as it pertains to more…
This post includes an excerpt from the bioenergy research authored by Andrew Copley and Amanda Lang to be published in the Q2 2017 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) Publication. U.S. pellet exports were flat from 2015 to 2016: ports exported 4.7 more…
At the start of each year, we look back on our performance over the past twelve months and look forward to our expectations for the next twelve. George Box, a famous statistician, has a quote that provides me some solace more…