Author Archive

100 Mile House, British Columbia – The log home and timber frame construction sector is building more than homes – it’s creating a stronger, more diversified economy. The new Log Home and Timber Frame Business and Market Expansion Initiative will continue this progress by capitalizing on the international market expansion potential of the industry.

This $263,000 initiative will identify ways that governments, the industry and B.C. builders can continue to work together to encourage growth and expansion into international markets. It ...

China’s hunger for wood raw-material has pushed timber prices upward, increasing the importation of logs and wood chips to record levels in 2010, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.

The forest industry in China is continuing its expansion, and with limited domestic timber resources, importation of logs and wood chips are at an all-time high, especially as tight supply of domestic logs has increased local log prices to new highs in ...