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FPS
The following is a rebuttal to last week's lead story, "Spending Deal Overrides Climate Science on Wood Energy," from the Bonner County (Idaho) Daily Bee. It was written by Andrew Johnson, Vice President of TSI Inc.
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FPS
The Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) will hold its 34th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition — EXPO 2017 — June 14-16 at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center. The show's theme is "Blueprint for Success." Sponsored and conducted by SFPA every two years since 1950, this event has traditionally included many of the largest names in the business displaying everything from sawmill machinery to materials-handling equipment, and consistently attracting key representatives from the nation's largest wood products manufacturers.
We encourage you to also visit SFPA EXPO INNOtech — the industry education component of SFPA's EXPO 2017. This is great opportunity to meet with industry professionals and exhibitors. The INNOtech platform features a comprehensive educational program geared specifically to wood product manufacturers. Coordinated by the Forest Products Society Southeast and Mid-South Sections, INNOtech is the leading source for wood product industry continuing education. INNOtech is co-sponsored by FPS-SE, with assistance from Mid-South. VISIT INNOtech 2017!
You can see full program and all speaker info here. The Annual FPS Mid-South and Southeast Sections meeting will be held during INNOtech on Wednesday, June 14, at 3 p.m. All are welcomed to join.
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PR Newswire via MarketWatch
High import tariffs on Canadian lumber to the U.S. are likely to increase U.S. lumber production and boost shipments from overseas in 2017, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Another outcome of the countervailing duties is that Canadian lumber companies will probably be more aggressive in their search for alternative markets to the U.S.
Continued increase in U.S. housing constructions, growing demand for wood, high lumber prices, imposed import tariffs on Canadian lumber, and a strong U.S. dollar are recent market developments that will impact forest products market dynamics in 2017, not only in North America, but on other continents as well, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
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Panel World
Construction is underway at StructureCraft for the building of North America's first dowel laminated timber plant. The 50,000-square-foot facility in Abbotsford, British Columbia, is expected to be completed in August. Dowel laminated timber (DLT) can be used for floor, wall, and roof structures. Unlike other structural timber products, such as CLT (cross laminated timber), LVL (laminated veneer lumber), GLT (glue laminated timber) and NLT (nail laminated timber), DLT does not use glue, nails or other metal fasteners, the company says. Instead, the wood panels use hardwood dowels to friction fit pre-milled boards together on edge.
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Forest2Market
The composite southern yellow pine lumber price soared in late April to its highest level since Forest2Market implemented its weekly index in 2009. While a number of market and trade-related factors have combined to buoy the price through 1Q 2017, a milder-than-normal winter also likely helped to drive prices higher.
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Woodworking Network
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is inspiring architects worldwide. Here in North America, architects throughout Canada and the United States are designing innovative CLT-framed buildings as sustainability showpieces. Until recently, softwoods provided the primary lumber to manufacture CLT. The newest innovation in mass timber is hardwood cross laminated timber. If pioneering architects have anything to do with it, hardwood CLT could become the defining building material of the 21st century. From reasons ranging from engineering to environmental, see why hardwood cross laminated timber is drawing so much attention from architects.
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Electric Light & Power
In response to California's ongoing tree mortality crisis and increased wildfire threat, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is working with local communities and power generators to dispose of dead tree debris and turn it into renewable energy. PG&E is operating sorting and chipping yards in eight counties hard hit by tree mortality to prepare the dead tree debris for use in biomass generation facilities. The two newest sites recently opened in Placer and Nevada counties.
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Bioenergy Insight
Asian countries are showing a strong interest in consuming more wood pellets in order to replace coal in their power grids and to shift away from nuclear power, according to an industry expert speaking at the Argus Biomass 2017 conference. Giving a presentation titled "A statistical review of the consumption of biomass for heat and power generation," Rachael Levinson, editor of biomass at Argus, said Asia "has the potential to overtake Europe in the next few years."
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Wood Resources International LLC via PR Newswire
Sawmills in Eastern Canada have been running at record high levels in 2016, with production reaching levels almost 10 percent higher than in 2015 and almost 40 percent higher than five years ago. This has been very good news to the forest industry, with sawmills running at 97 percent operating rates in late 2016, according to the WWPA. However, there are also worrisome developments regarding the large volumes of residual chips that are being generated and where the chips can be sold.
The pulp sector has been the key consumer of residuals in the past, but with a shrinking pulp industry in both Ontario and Quebec, there are concerns that sawmills in the region might be forced to limit production levels because it may be difficult to sell off the large volumes of chips that are being produced.
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