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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…
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…
This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s Q4 2017 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States and Canada. A cartoon from my youth, the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, sometimes featured Dudley Do-Right, a more…
This post includes an excerpt from research published in the Q3 2017 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). Canadian forests support one of the world’s leading wood products industries. And that industry is in flux, rationalizing legacy investments in newsprint mills, navigating more…
On July 26, 2017, West Fraser announced an agreement to acquire Gilman Companies, a major producer of southern yellow pine lumber with six sawmills in South Georgia and North Florida comprising 700 million board feet (MMBF) of capacity. The acquisition more…