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While significant forest industry capital continues to flow to the U.S. South, the announced acquisition of EACOM Timber Corporation in Eastern Canada by Interfor in late 2021 reminds us of the critical role and opportunities that exist for investors in more…
This excerpt from the Q4 2021 issue of the Forisk Wood Fiber Review highlights our coverage of Western Canada where a series of damaging events in November saw bad news piled on worse news. It is just as well that more…
This is the third in a series related to the Q2 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. The recovery we are witnessing in Western Canada logging employment may be 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…
This post introduces research covered in the Q1 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). Canadian wood pellet exports declined 2.0% year-over-year through November 2019. Increased Canadian wood pellet export growth to Belgium and the UK offset a 16% year-over-year decline to Japan. more…
This is the sixth in a series related to the Q4 2019 Forisk Research Quarterly’s (FRQ) forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Driven by U.S. volumes, North American wood pellet exports increased 13% year-over-year through August, more…
This is the fifth in a series related to the Q3 2019 Forisk Research Quarterly. Through May 2019, North American wood pellet exports increased 11% year-over-year, reaching 3.4 million metric tons. U.S. wood pellet exports increased 15%. The UK remained the more…
This is the fifth in a series related to the Q2 2019 Forisk Research Quarterly. Forisk analysis suggests wood use for viable bioenergy projects in the U.S. will be 82.5 million tons per year by 2028. As of April 2019, Forisk’s 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…
Over the past decade, Eastern Canada has consistently been the fourth-largest installed base of regional softwood lumber manufacturing capacity in North America, behind the U.S. South, the U.S. West, and Western Canada. However, the region has gained importance as a more…