A string of sawmill curtailments has buoyed lumber prices amid a flood of dismal housing data.
Interfor, one of the pandemic’s hottest stocks, is the latest sawyer to announce cutbacks, citing declining wood demand in its decision to reduce fourth-quarter lumber output by 17%.
Competitors Canfor and West Fraser Timber earlier announced their own curtailments, both temporary and permanent, in British Columbia where log costs…
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