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Last year, Forisk published a blog about the questions Forisk’s Custom Market Forecast (CMF) can answer for firms making investment and operating decisions in the timber and forest industries. After a year of delivering CMFs to clients, we developed case more…
This post is an excerpt from the Q1 2026 Forisk Wood Fiber Review (WFR), which provides a quarterly review of pulpwood, chips, biomass markets and trade in the U.S. and Canada. Introduction Mill and Forest biomass refer to woody material more…
This post includes themes from Forisk’s FRQ research and the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on March 31st, 2026. Early registration ends March 17th* Introduction On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel initiated joint strikes on Iranian and more…
By Pat Jolley Mill news is mixed for the North American forest products industry as firms continue to complete mill investments and announce mill closings. In the first quarter of 2024, firms advanced sawmill expansions in the U.S. South while more…
This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. In North America, there are four major exporting pellet regions: South Central, Southeast, East more…
This excerpt from the Q1 2022 issue of the Forisk Wood Fiber Review highlights our pellet feedstock price indices. Trends in this quarter’s pellet feedstock prices track North American fiber prices generally: prices are up. For a more detailed, regional more…
North American wood pellet capacity increased 12% in 2021. This trend is led by export-oriented projects in the U.S. South, which continue to drive sector growth. Wood pellet production capacity reached 20 million metric tons in North America in 2021. more…
This post is the first in a series related to Forisk’s Multi-Client Study: North American Forest Market & Industry Rankings, a comprehensive analysis and rankings of North American timber markets and wood-using mills. For more information, click, here. Wood pellet production 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…
This post includes an excerpt from the bioenergy research, authored by Andrew Copley and Amanda Lang, published in the Q1 2018 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) Publication. Canadian wood pellet capacity is expected to increase 18% in 2018. Canadian wood pellet more…