Utilization is 1.1 points below a year earlier
Schnittholz
Training and testing are underway on sellable roof truss production runs at the new 42,000-square-foot automation facility.
Inventories at the same wholesalers rise 0.8% month on month and fall 0.8% year on year
The company identified high input costs, limited labor and housing availability, and sustained declines in pricing as factors behind the decision.
South Korea remained the largest buyer as its share rose 1 pp; Peru's purchases rose 1.5-fold and U.S. shipments fell 62%.
The projects will modernize the Los Ángeles remanufacturing plant and increase annual capacity at the Mulchén sawmill.
Index falls $20 from one month ago while remaining flat from previous week.
Price for lumber exported from Brazilian rose marginally 0.5%.
Price for softwood lumber imported to the U.S. dipped 1.1%.
Price for SYP lumber exported from the U.S. increased slightly 0.7%.
Exports of lumber from the U.S. to Mexico rose 2%.
Price for lumber exported from German to the U.S. rose 2%.
Price for lumber exported from Canadian gained 1.9%.
Exports of lumber from Chile decreased slightly 0.6%.
The Anderson County facility will make processed pine products for building and millwork applications.
Compared with the previous month, production was down 9%.
Thursday's $9 drop was the steepest session of the week, the second straight day of declines.
Year to date, wood products shipments were up 0.1% and paper products shipments up 2.0%, against a 7.1% gain for all manufacturing.
Bell takes the role after serving as corporate finance manager and operations controller.
The company plans to focus the Swedish site on sawn and planed goods production while supplying Nordic CLT customers from three other plants.