The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) has released its 2017 results, which show continued year-on-year growth across key metrics of value to the industry. The results also stress the importance of the softwood lumber sector to the economy as a whole. Highlights include: SLB-funded initiatives generated 1.02 billion board feet (bbf) of incremental softwood lumber demand… Read more »
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SLB Performance Evaluation Updated for 2017
Prime Consulting has updated its independent performance evaluation of the Softwood Lumber Board. To view the report click here.
reThink Wood is now Think Wood
Reflecting a paradigm shift in how wood as a construction material is perceived by architects and engineers, reThink Wood has re-branded to Think Wood. Check out their website.
SLB Supports Additional Blast-Resistant Testing to Open New Market for Mass Timber
Wood products have historically been underrepresented in the U.S. Department of Defense construction market because of misconceptions regarding wood’s performance in blast conditions. Working with USDA Forest Products Laboratory, the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) is tackling these misperceptions head-on to prove wood’s performance and open up a new market for wood products worth upwards of… Read more »
New Report Asserts Softwood Lumber’s Economic Impacts
A new report by Forest Economic Advisors (FEA), commissioned by the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB), highlights the importance of softwood lumber manufacturing to the U.S. economy and, in particular, the health of rural communities. Through both direct manufacture and via downstream industries that use softwood lumber as a primary input, FEA estimates that 775,674 jobs,… Read more »
SLB’s Impact to Expand Markets
Expanding markets is central to the Softwood Lumber Board’s (SLB’s) mission, as new and larger markets create increased softwood lumber demand and consumption and increased revenue for producers and manufacturers. After weathering the financial and housing crises of the 2000s, American markets across all construction segments are crossing the threshold of recovery, and this is… Read more »
Lifting Lumber Sales—and Your Business with 2.59 Billion Board Feet of New Demand
Lumber is an integral part of both your business and how America builds housing. The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) works tirelessly to make it more than that. The SLB is working to make wood not only the dominant structural material for single-family housing and the preferred material for outdoor applications like decking, but also an… Read more »