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All Metsä Forest Eesti AS employees will transfer to the new owner’s service as existing employees.

Pino Pucci succeeds Brad Thorlakson as President and CEO.

The property includes sawmill feeding, the new sawmill line, by-product handling from sawmill production, and a feeding and intermediate storage system for green sorting of sawn timber.

Revenue has decreased due to some material prices stabilizing at a lower level which are less than the prior few years and a more competitive construction market fueled by interest rate hikes by the Bank of Canada.

With this acquisition, the Thorne Lumber locations in the Missouri communities of Chillicothe, Cameron, and Plattsburg will bring R.P. Lumber’s total location count to 87, including 20 in Missouri.

Price for lumber imported to Japan rose 1.4%.

The annual lumber production capacity of the Keitele sawmill will increase to 600,000 cubic meters of finished lumber.

Exports of lumber from Latvia increased 17%.

The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending May 24, 2024 was US$417 mfbm. This is up by +0.2%, or +$1, from the previous week when it was US$416.

Adjusted EBITDA was $39 million, or 5.3% of net sales, for the Q1 2024, compared to $47 million, or 5.9% of net sales in the Q1 2023, which includes the net benefit of duty-related items.

Jared Hufford will expand his responsibilities to include overseeing the Retail Performance team and spearheading the implementation of the inventory productivity analysis tool.

With the new Logistics park, more freight handling can also move from the centre of Sundsvall to the Logistics park of Tundal port.

In the week ending May 17, 2024, the price of Western S-P-F 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$383 mfbm, said forest products industry price guide newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter. This is flat from the previous week when it was $383.

Price for lumber exported from Thailand contracted 8%.

The revenue decline was primarily due to lower sales volumes.

Epallet will manufacture pallets for major corporations such as Morton Salt, Perrigo, Old Castle, GOJO, American Standard, Archer Daniels Midland, Saint Gobain, Tarkett, and Scotts Miracle-Gro based out of Marysville.

Exports of lumber from New Zealand expanded 24%.

Exports of lumber from Lithuania contracted 8%.

Cooper Group boosts annual pine lumber production to over 57 million board feet with this acquisition.