The Softwood Lumber Board’s (SLB) ability to increase the market demand for softwood lumber boosts industry ROI, maintains forests as forests, creates new jobs and strengthens communities. Watch video now.
Category: Newsflash
Capitalizing on New Market Opportunities
By Hugues Simon President, BarretteWood Inc. The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) helps the softwood lumber industry identify, create, and capitalize on new and existing opportunities to generate demand and sell more of our products. The SLB tracks and analyzes market dynamics across segments to identify emerging market opportunities and determine where to target investments to… Read more »
Tall Mass Timber Code Changes Pass First Hurdle
The highly-anticipated tall mass timber building code changes passed their first hurdle earlier Monday with approval by an International Code Council (ICC) Code Change Committee. The 2018 ICC Committee Action Hearings got underway in Columbus, OH on Sunday and will run for eight days. The Hearings bring together code and fire officials, engineers, architects, builders,… Read more »
SLB’s Tall Wood & Mass Timber Initiatives Open New Doors for Industry Growth
George EmmersonPresident & CEO, Sierra Pacific Industries. The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) is the industry’s initiative to protect and grow market share for softwood lumber products in North America. Participating in the SLB is one of the most important things we as industry professionals can do to protect our markets, create new opportunities for our… Read more »
The SLB Helps the Industry Do More
By Don KaynePresident and CEO, Canfor CorporationChair, Softwood Lumber Board Programs Committee The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) has been transformational for the softwood lumber industry in many ways, helping us to generate over 1 billion board feet of demand (protected volume and new consumption) in the last year alone. One oft-overlooked but key ingredient to… Read more »
The SLB Is Key to Growing the Softwood Lumber Industry
By T. Furman BrodieCharles Ingram Lumber Company When the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB), was first proposed, I could not have imagined the impact the SLB would have in such a short time. We had watched our industry give up market share to our competitors for decades. Sales were stagnating and, the future appeared uncertain. The… Read more »
Call for Nominations Softwood Lumber Board Seeks Candidates
The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) seeks nominations of softwood lumber manufacturers and importers interested in candidacy for Board seats coming open in January 2019. Each Director will serve a three-year term, which may be renewed once. The deadline for nominations is April 20th, 2018. The 19-member Board will hold elections to fill six seats for Directors whose terms expire… Read more »