LSU AgCenter - LFPDC
Forest Sector / Forest Products Interest Group

2020

1. Housing’s Outlook for 2021. 21 December 2020
2. December 2020 Hardwood Directory. 13 December 2020
3. Biopreferred - A connection to Corss-Laminated Timber. 13 December 2020
4. Plans to build Africa’s largest wood pellet export facility underway. 10 December 2020
5. Costa Rica will Monitor Its Forest Industry with Specialized Application. 10 December 2020
6. Furnishings Digest Newsletter - October 2020. 3 November 2020
7. The Vast Impact of the Forest Landowner. 23 October 2020
8. Housing Report: August 2020. 23 October 2020
9. Vietnam News Agency: Wood product makers told to take actions to optimize US market. 14 October 2020
10. Q3 2020 Market Trends. 7 Ocotober 2020
11. New Book on International Marketing for Forest Products Firms Published. 6 October 2020
12. Louisiana Timber Losses from Hurricane Laura Surpass $1.1 Billion. 6 Ocotober 2020
13. Why Are Ther Still Not Enough Paper Towesl? 2 October 2020
14. LFPDC List-serve Link. 24 September 2020
15. Climate Change Damages German Forests. 24 September 2020
16. Enviva completes acquisition of Georgia Biomass. 19 September 2020
17. Taller timber buildings approved in National Fire Protection Association code. 17 September 2020
18. Lumber Prices Continue to Price Home Owners — and Builders — Out of the Market. 17 September 2020
19. Could Mass Timber Construction Reshape Prince George’s Skyline? 17 September 2020
20. Innovative Uses for Southern Pine. 11 September 2020
21. Lumber futures climb to a record and more than double for the year, as pandemic boosts demand. 11 September 2020
22. SFI Director Highlights Importance of Certification in Mass Timber Construction. 10 September 2020
23. Labor Department Approves Woodwork Manufacturing Specialist Apprenticeship Program. 10 September 2020
24. Stora Enso invests Euro 79 million in new CLT production line at its sawmill in Czech Republic. 9 September 2020
25. Furnishings Digest Newsletter. 9 September 2020
26. Timber investment group sees surge in land transactions. 8 September 2020
27. The Global Forest Industry This Quarter. 8 September 2020
28. Maritime History Notes: When US intercoastal lumber trade floated fleets. 8 September 2020
29. Wood Pellet Update. 2 September 2020
30. Mass timber is the future of architecture. But can it survive a world on fire? 2 September 2020
31. This Is How The Us - And The World - Can Win From Reforestation. 28 August 2020
32. Are Southern Softwood Lumber Manufacturers Ready for the Cross-Laminated Timber Industry? 28 August 2020
33. Japan Eyes 'Energy Forests' For Biomass Power Generation. 28 August 2020
34. Forest Scientists Develop Innovative Wood-Based Materials For 3-D Printing. 24 August 2020
35. Housing Report: June 2020. 24 August 2020
36. Average New Home Price Now $16,000 Higher Due to Lumber. 24 August 2020
37. Millions of Beetles Are Wiping Out Forests All Across the World. 21 August 2020
38. Fiddlehead says its RTA caskets a greener way to go. 21 August 2020
39. Record lumber prices adding thousands of dollars to new home building costs. 18 August 2020
40. Unceasing Demand Sends Softwood Lumber Prices Ever Higher. 12 August 2020
41. Report: EU Wood Pellet Demand Expected To Increase In 2020. 12 August 2020
42. Canada’s Changing Certification Landscape. 12 August 2020
43. Pulpwood and Wood Fuel Prices in the US South. 8 August 2020
44. UMaine’s new patent leverages the state's forest products industry. 7 August 2020
45. South Africa: Declining Area Planted May Present Opportunities for US Lumber Exports to South Africa. 6 August 2020
46. Soaring Lumber Prices Limit Housing's Growth. 6 August 2020
47. Pressure on FSC to address transparency and conflict of interest concerns. 6 august 2020
48. Immportant Forest Sector Updates from FORECON. 5 August 2020
49. Why Biomass Residue Is Not as Plentiful as It Looks: Case Study on Economic Supply of Logging Residues. 3 August 2020
50. Huge MDF mill coming to Alberta will use straw. 31 July 2020
51. Furnishings Digest Newsletter. 31 July 2020
52. Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that. 20 July 2020
53. Q2 Market Trends. 17 July 2020
54. Housing Report - May 2020. 15 July 2020
55. The Coronavirus Has Not Stopped the Global Trade of Forest Products. 2 July 2020
56. Drax partners with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering on BECCS pilot project. 2 July 2020
57. Report: Netherlands to double wood pellet imports in 2020. 1 July 2020
58. ‘Open doors in Japan’: Japanese wood chip, wood pellet demand expected to grow. 29 June 2020
59. Wood Fiber Costs Declined for Pulp Producers in 2019 and Early 2020. 25 June 2020
60. Vietnam Wood Processing Industry. 24 June 2020
61. UK CLT Experts to Develop New Fire Safety Compliance Framework. 24 June 2020
62. Study shows that tropical forest loss is increased by large-scale land acquisitions. 24 June 2020
63. New Home Sales and Permits Rising - NAHB. 24 June 2020
64. Housing Report: Ajpril 2020. 24 June 2020
65. Enviva acquires 2 pellet plants. 24 June 2020
66. Wood Pellets Market Brief. Country: Poland Post: Warsaw. 17 June 2020
67. Study shows that tropical forest loss is increased by large-scale land acquisitions. 17 June 2020
68. 2020 North American Mass Timber State of the industry report is avialble for free. 9 June 2020
69. 2019 Hardwood Supplier Directory. 9 June 2020
70. The State of the World’s Forests: FAO-UNEP. 2 June 2020
71. Housing Reports: March, 2020. 20 May 2020
72. April Housing Starts - 2020. 20 May 2020
73. Lumber Prices Move Sharply Higher on Rising Demand and Supply Constraints. 18 May 2020
74. USIPA: Wood biomass given all clear by Europe’s highest court. 15 May 2020
75. Timber companies commission testing report to prove fire safety of CLT. 15 May 2020
76. SAF Position: Regulation of Genetically Modified Trees. 15 May 2020
77. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020). 9 May 2020
78. Wildfire Conditions For Oregon And California May Be Worse, Earlier Than Predicted. 8 May 2020
79. Mill Closure Update Due to COVID-19. 8 May 2020
80. Depression-era wooden money returns in small Washington town. 7 May 2020
81. USDA: US wood pellet exports reach 670,464 tons in March. 6 May 2020
82. Drax launches Biomass Carbon Calculator to measure supply chain emissions. 6 May 2020
83. Forest Service awards Mississippi $500,000 in wood innovation grants. 5 May 2020
84. A Timber-Based Building Method Draws Praise, and Skeptics. 4 May 2020
85. Housing Report: February 2020. 27 April 2020
86. Forest Products Imports to China. 25 April 2020
87. Two NE tree species can be used in new sustainable building material Eastern white pine and Eastern hemlock. 25 April 2020
88. Q1 Market Trends: WillSonn Advisory LLC. 9 April 2020
89. Housing Report: January 2020. 28 March 2020
90. COVID-19 Feild Sanitation Requirements: Resource Lists. [PDF]  [MS Word] 28 March 2020
91. Danish hospital is constructed from 24 steel frame modules. 18 March 2020
92. Drax achieves industry-leading safety record. 11 March 2020
93. New Zealand Wood Products and Forestry Report. 9 March 2020
94. Designers upbeat as remodeling boom continues. 4 March 2020
95. Measures to slow coronavirus disrupt Chinese market. 27 February 2020
96. Coronavirus having widespread effect on timber industry. 27 February 2020
97. Structural timber is an innocent casualty of ungrounded fears over fire safety. 25 February 2020
98. FPInnovations launches second edition of Canadian CLT Handbook. 25 February 2020
99. Lumber business becomes first in the world to stock Hempwood. 19 February 2020
100. Seihoku Plywood Developing Super Thick Plywood. 17 February 2020
101. Embrace the Inevitable: Wood-based Construction is Set to Move Offsite. 17 February 2020
102. FLEGT products biggest winners in EU tropical wood market. 17 February 2020
103. New process for preserving lumber could offer advantages over pressure treating. 14 February 2020
104. Marijuana legalization is impacting residential housing and commercial property demand. 14 February 2020
105. Housing Report: Ddecember 2019. 14 February 2020
106. Architectural Association launches experimental Wood Lab. 14 February 2020
107. Gov. Brown announces deal between Oregon forest industry and environmental groups. 11 February 2020
108. Coronavirus' Effect on Worldwide Wood. 11 February 2020
109. Top Challenges for Builders: Cost/Availability of Labor in 2019 & 2020. 10 February 2020
110. Thermally modified wood as a green alternative to tropical hardwoods. 10 February 2020
111. Q1 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly. 10 February 2020
112. Mortgage Rate Drop Could Signal Homebuilder Boom. 10 February 2020
113. Late surge lifts U.S. imports; exports plunged in 2019. 10 February 2020
114. WoodWorks Announces 2020 Design Award Winners. 5 February 2020
115. Mass Timber Articles from Forest Business Network. 5 February 2020
116. Technology that destroys pests in wood moves closer to commercialization. 31 January 2020
117. The Future of Architecture: A Timber Revolution - Architizer Journal. 29 January 2020
118. Building with Mass Timber: New Orleans Workshop. 29 January 2020
119. U.S. housing starts reached a 13-year high in December 2019. 27 January 2020
120. Fiber, Inventory and Sales. 27 January 2020
121. US furniture industry eyes Cambodia as Vietnam’s wages rise. 23 January 2020
122. Market Trends: WillSonn Advisory, Q4 2019. 23 January 2020
123. Genetically Modified Poplar Trees Emit Fewer Hydrocarbons And Are Just As Hardy. 17 January 2020
124. Virginia Tech US Forest Service Housing Market Commentaries, November 2019.
125. Viability of Modern Timber Highway Bridges. 15 January 2020
126. Ence opens new 50MW biomass facility in Spain. 14 January 2020
127. Slim to no growth forecast in R&R, non-residential sectors. 11 January 2020
128. Denver Adopts Tall Mass Timber Codes. 10 January 2020
129. Study: Biomass electricity could create 22,000 additional jobs: By Peter Aleshire Special to the Independent. 10 January 2020
130. 2020 Hardwood Supplier Directory. 8 January 2020
131. Pinnacle to build new pellet plant in Alabama. 3 January 2020
132. Report predicts strong growth in US pellet exports to Japan. 2 January 2020
133. Report Name: Japan Import Regulations and Standards for Wood Products. 2 January 2020