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When tracking wood demand and timber markets, we look not only to the past and to the future for guidance, but also to the side – peripherally – to gauge performance across markets and sectors. Heather Clark, our Customer Relations more…
Last week, I met with the CEO of one of world’s largest forest management and consulting firms. We ended up discussing a mutually perplexing question, “why do some timberland investors prioritize macro issues like housing at the expense of understanding more…
Despite optimism that pine grade demand would increase during Q2 2011 in the US South, it fell slightly by 0.6% to 18.4 million tons at 424 mills that consumed pine grade. Although small, this was the first drop since Q3 more…
Major League Baseball turned to the US Forest Service to evaluate the “epidemic” of wood baseball bats breaking during baseball games. The Associated Press recently reported how research engineer Dave Kretschmann at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin has more…
Last month, our team published a project-by-project study of the US biofuels sector called “Transportation Fuels from Wood: Investment and Market Implications of Current Projects and Technologies.” One of the 36 projects evaluated in the study is KiOR, which went public more…
Our team at Forisk just released its 2011 timber (stumpage) forecast for pine sawtimber and pulpwood for the US South and by state. Overall, we show increasing demand for wood raw materials and higher pine stumpage prices for forest owners more…
Forisk Consulting was named to the “Bulldog 100 Fastest Growing Businesses” by the University of Georgia Alumni Association at an awards banquet in Atlanta on January 22, 2011. In total, the “Bulldog 100”, based on revenue growth over the past more…
Forisk has expanded its coverage of operating and announced wood-using bioenergy projects from the US South to the continental US. Next month’s post will include a summary of national wood bioenergy activity. For information regarding the detailed US-wide bioenergy database, more…
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Forisk Consulting, an Athens-based forestry research firm, compiled a list last fall of 29 wood-based alternative-energy projects announced in Georgia the past few years. Only 12 will likely “make it,” said Forisk’s Amanda Lang. Most are “proposed,” i.e. awaiting permits, more…