Lumber prices rose from late-2025 lows, but duty deposits and reduced operating days continued to pressure liquidity and volumes.
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Two biggest single-project awards fund curved glulam output and wood-fibre foam capacity.
Higher lumber prices lifted results, but logistics constraints cut shipments and increased inventories.
The Lancaster-based distributor has served the greater Charlotte market since 1908 and will continue operating under President Greg Gregory.
The analysis compares three wood-based synthetic methanol pathways and finds gasification uses less electricity and costs less, while EU RFNBO definitions credit combustion pathways more fully than gasification.
Hardwood lumber, millwork and plywood prices also increased.
Lumber pricing rises on tighter supply, but weak demand, duties, and disruptions cut shipments and keep both lumber and pulp operations under pressure.
High roundwood prices and slightly higher felling volumes lift income, even as trade and prices ease late in the year.
Median new-home price falls 5.3% to $387,400 as months’ supply declines to 8.5.
Exports fell 6.6%.
Expedited first five-year review finds dumping would likely continue if the order was revoked, with weighted-average dumping margins up to 231.60% for imports from China.
For delivery timber, prices increased on sawlogs and decreased on pulpwood.
Volatile mortgage rates, weather disruptions, and cautious housing demand weigh on results and margins, with the largest pricing and gross-margin pressure in engineered wood products.
Lumber sales realizations rise 13% from fourth-quarter averages and oriented strand board realizations rise 8%.
The reviews cover Canadian softwood lumber and uncoated paper from Brazil and Portugal, and list the companies subject to review.
High financing costs, construction-input prices and currency weakness are expected to limit new procurement.
Wooden housing starts decrease 26.9% while monthly figures rise from February levels.
Mortgage rates above 6% and tariff uncertainty shape 2026 operating plans and input-cost expectations.
More than half of tracked metros post annual price declines, with Denver the weakest.
Finland consumes 78.9 million m3 of roundwood in 2025 Headline option 3: Finland forest industry roundwood use rises 6% in 2025 Subheading: Forest industry processing totalled 66.1 million m3, while energy use fell to 12.8 million m3.