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Western Hemisphere Benchmark: New Insights into Global Wood Fiber Supply Chain

by Daniel Stuber

Forest2Market's mission has always been to empower its participants to make exponentially better decisions through the application of industry expertise and unique datasets. We believe that market price transparency and transaction-based benchmarking are vital to optimizing and stabilizing the supply chain between producers and consumers. Demand and capital will always flow to the lowest cost producer, and with wood fiber being the largest variable cost input for the pulping process, it is imperative for producers in various regions to know their wood fiber price positions in the global market.

 

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NAFO Report Highlights Part 1: U.S. Timberland Ownership and Class Profiles

by Hannah Jefferies

Forest2Market recently completed an economic impact study for the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO). The study quantifies the contribution that forestry-related industries make to state, regional and national economies, and analyzes the most forested regions of the United States based on the most recent year of data available, which is 2013. The following map identifies the regions that were the subject of the study.

 

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Global Trends Driving the Great Lakes Region Forest Products Industry

by Pete Coutu

Like most industries in the new global economy, the forest products industry is in a constant state of ever-hastening change. The shifting nature of the business and industry environment is constant and evolves over time. What ultimately matters is how we respond to the change going on around us, and how we adapt for success in the future.

 

 

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NAFO Report Highlights Part 2: Economic Impact of Forest Products Industry

by Hannah Jefferies

Forest2Market recently completed an economic impact study for the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO). The study quantifies the contribution that forestry-related industries make to state, regional and national economies, and analyzes the most forested regions of the United States based on the most recent year of data available, which is 2013. The following map identifies the regions that were the subject of the study.

 

 

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Softwood Pulpwood Demand Declines in the Northeast

by Eric Kingsley

When the Madison Paper mill in Maine closed this month, it marked the loss of the last major softwood pulpwood market in New England. Since early 2014, mill closures in Bucksport and East Millinocket, a capacity reduction at the mill in Jay, and the recent Madison closure have cut roughly 2.1 million tons of softwood pulpwood demand in the state. The closures have also have left loggers and landowners struggling to move softwood pulpwood to other regional mills that use some volume of softwood as part of their species mix.

 

 

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Timber Price Movements in the US South during March/April 2016

by Joe Clark

During the March/April 2016 period, there was an overall decrease in both pine stumpage prices and hardwood prices throughout the US South. Pine pulpwood saw the biggest decrease (-4.69 percent) dropping to $10.03/ton. The next two largest decreases were seen in pine chip-n-saw (-3.17 percent) and hardwood pulpwood (-3.14 percent). Pine sawtimber prices (less than 1 percent) remained steady while hardwood sawtimber prices (+1.01 percent) saw the only increase during the time period.

 

 

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Housing Starts Jump, Southern Yellow Pine Prices Steady in April

by John Greene

On the heels of March's significant downtick (-8.8 percent), housing starts jumped in April despite signs of an economic slowdown, flagging corporate earnings reports and a US dollar (USD) that continues to lose strength globally. April 2016 housing starts were at a SAAR of 1,172,000, or 6.6 percent above the revised March estimate of 1,099,000. However, this number is 1.7 percent below the April 2015 rate of 1,192,000. Single-family housing starts were at a rate of 778,000, which is 3.3 percent above the revised March figure of 753,000.

 

 

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Forest Industry Performance: April 2016

by Joe Clark

Forest industry performance in March and April was reported by both the US government and the Institute for Supply Management. Total industrial production (IP) fell 0.6 percent for a second month in March (Table 3), the sixth decline in the past seven months. For 1Q2016 as a whole, IP fell at an annual rate of 2.2 percent. Continued pullbacks in mining and utilities were responsible for a substantial portion of the overall March decrease, but manufacturing, Wood Products and Paper also retreated.

 

 

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