by Kirkland | Jun 20, 2022 | News
Armor In Housing Starts Reveals Crack U.S. housing starts dropped significantly in May 2022, down 14.4% from April to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.549 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development monthly new...
by Kirkland | May 18, 2022 | News
Softwood Lumbermen Still Feeling Good U.S. softwood lumbermen are not as bullish about their lumber business situation as they were a year ago, but they’re still upbeat and capital expenditure projects are in full force, according to Timber Processing’s annual 2022...
by Kirkland | May 18, 2022 | News
Multi-Family Housing Continues Surge U.S. single-family housing starts in April dipped 7.3% from March to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.1 million, but multi-family starts (five units or more) shot up 16.8% over March to 612,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau...
by Kirkland | May 16, 2022 | News
Softwood Lumber Board Updates Board Members Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has reappointed George Emmerson, J.D. Hankins II, Brian Luoma and Brad Thorlakson to serve second terms on the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) Board of Directors. He has also appointed past...
by Kirkland | May 16, 2022 | News
PLIB Partners With TP&EE Hatton-Brown Expositions and Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau announce that PLIB will participate in the Preferred Partner program with Hatton-Brown’s Timber Processing & Energy Expo (TP&EE), which will be held September 28-30 at...
by Kirkland | Apr 20, 2022 | News
BC Harvesting Deferrals Kick In No harvesting will be allowed on nearly 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) of old-growth in British Columbia as the province and First Nations throughout it develop a new approach to sustainable forest management. “Our...
