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This post is the first in a series related to the Q2 2022 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on regional pulpwood price dynamics. Below is an excerpt from that featured more…
This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q3 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on forest management practices. Pulp & paper production increased in the U.S. more…
In capturing a quarterly “snapshot” of fiber prices by region across North America, the Forisk Wood Fiber Review (FWFR) also summarizes market trends and investments. Fevered lumber prices appear to have broken due to a combination of producers (sawmills) catching more…
Last week, Forisk published the June 2021 edition of the Forisk Market Bulletin in which our team communicated with over 170 forest industry professionals in the U.S., Canada, and Europe on topics including break-even analysis for forest carbon markets and more…
This post is the sixth in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts and featured research on forest carbon. North America’s forest industry is closing in on two more…
“Risk” remained the watchword over the past three months as managers continued to battle multiple issues: fires, hurricanes, COVID, and record lumber prices. Lumber production surged in Q3 2020, generating more residual volumes into fiber markets while demand from the more…
This post is the third in a series related to the Q3 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. The post includes excerpts from our pulp and paper research. Our more…
As management teams across the forest industry position themselves for ‘post-COVID’ markets, many pulp and paper mills chose downtime for now. SAPPI Cloquet, UPM Blandon at Grand Rapid, and Domtar’s Dryden mill offer examples of firms and facilities that modified more…
This is the second in a series related to the Q2 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. We entered 2020 expecting to navigate the tradeoffs of a slowing global more…
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the Canada rail blockades stood as the major supply chain disruption of the quarter in Eastern Canada. Protests of a pipeline crossing First Nations lands in Western Canada challenged incoming and outgoing rail deliveries for more…