Price for lumber imported to Egypt slipped 3%.
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Higher lumber prices improved second-quarter operations, while weak pulp demand, elevated inventories and lower pricing increased losses and contributed to mill closures.
The company maintains lumber and panel shipment targets while continuing sawmill optimization, production improvements and capacity consolidation.
Growth in acquisitions and organic volume lifted revenue, while higher transportation costs reduced profitability and the company maintained its 2026 investment plans.
Price for lumber exported from Finland to China upped 1.8%.
The closure will end production at the Fox Creek facility after weak lumber markets, U.S. softwood lumber duties and tariffs, wildfire-related fibre constraints, and the end of Alberta's mountain pine beetle strategy reduced the mill's long-term viability.
Index rises $16 from one month ago with 3% gain since June 2026.
Compared with June 2025, production was down 3%.
Aggregate profit among above-designated-size enterprises in the category fell to 5.17 billion yuan, while profit across all covered industrial enterprises rose 18.7%.
Price for lumber imported to Kazakhstan rose 4%.
Price for softwood lumber imported to China upped 1.5%.
Price for lumber exported from Belarus to China rose 3%.
Prices were up 6.8% from a year earlier while Canada's broader factory-gate prices were up 12.4% year over year.
Compared with May 2025, production was down 6%.
In June 2026, production of softwood lumber in Poland upped 2.5% compared to June 2025 to 244.9 thousand m3.
The funding will support sawmill expansion, new processing equipment and a new sawmill to increase domestic wood processing capacity and timber production.
From a year earlier, wood-product producer prices were up.
Compared with the previous month, production was up 7%.
Most products affected by the 50% tariff are sold in Canada, limiting exposure to about 1% of total sales, analysts estimate.
June’s monthly increase followed a small decline in May.