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My first exposure to pallet manufacturing came while working as a harvest manager and log buyer for a pine sawmill in Barnesville, Georgia in the mid-1990s. While procuring pine logs for our mill, I often sold hardwood pallet logs to more…
Early in my wood procurement career, my friend and timber buyer Fred Voyles taught me that, as a forester buying logs for a mill, to really learn and have an impact, to improve a situation or reinforce an expectation, to more…
I just lay there awake in the middle of the night Thinking ’bout the wreck on the highway – Bruce Springsteen “Wreck on the highway” While driving on the interstate last week, I saw a fully-loaded car hauler that more…
This is the fourth in a series related to the Q4 2018 Forisk Research Quarterly and Forisk’s annual “Wood Flows & Cash Flows” event on December 13th in Atlanta. This post includes an excerpt from the Q4 2018 Forisk Research Quarterly more…
This is the third in a series related to the Q4 2018 Forisk Research Quarterly and Forisk’s annual “Wood Flows & Cash Flows” event on December 13thin Atlanta. Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t. Rising interest more…
There has been some concern in the forest industry that the slump in pine harvesting following the Great Recession – combined with excessive inventory accumulation and poor stumpage pricing – may have contributed to a severe decline in tree planting more…
This is the first in a series related to Forisk’s Q4 2018 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. Despite September housing starts declining 5.3% on a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) from August’s downwardly revised more…
Structural panel production is highly consolidated amongst few firms in North America. There are only ten OSB producers and the ten largest plywood producers represent 73% of North American capacity in 2018. The ten largest plywood producers in North America more…
Wood pellet production capacity in North America increased 170% over the past decade. Growing to meet European demand for renewable energy—and more recently demand from Asia—wood pellet manufacturing capacity has consolidated and shifted across regions. Today, Western Canada is the more…
In reading about the pulp and paper industry, so much news focuses on the declines in printing and writing paper and newsprint. True, North American paper and paperboard production declined 25% since the start of the 2000’s, but the industry more…