FEA Canada/WOOD MARKETS’ 2018 annual survey of top Canadian and U.S. lumber producers features mixed production trends, partly as a result of alternately spiking and crashing U.S. lumber prices in 2018.With a few mill acquisitions by smaller companies (and one large company: West Fraser’s mid-2017 acquisition of Gilman in the U.S. South), most of the production gains in 2018 were facilitated by improvements at existing mills. Given ongoing industry consolidations, it is important to note that our complete survey now focuses on the top 15 lumber producers. Our early surveys, conducted in the 1990s, covered the top 30 companies; this illustrates how much the industry has changed in the last two decades. In our shortened Top 20 Canada list in 1998, only six firms on the list are still under the same ownership today!An excerpt from the full survey on Canada’s “Top 10” lumber producers is outlined here.
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