SLB’s 2018 Annual Report: Diversified Growth For Softwood Lumber

2018 was the SLB’s most successful year yet. The newly released SLB 2018 Annual Report details our accomplishments in protecting and diversifying markets for softwood lumber.

Almost seven years later, we’re looking back on our work with pride, having launched the mass timber movement and generated almost five billion board feet of incremental demand.”

Mark Brinkmeyer
Softwood Lumber Board Chairman
Idaho Forest Group Chairman

Highlights include: 

• SLB-funded initiatives generated 1.24 billion board feet (bbf) of incremental softwood lumber demand in 2018.
• Since its inception in 2012, the SLB has created more than 4.8 bbf of new demand and resulted in an incremental $1.9 billion of revenue.
• The SLB has delivered a total return on investment of $23.11 in incremental revenue for every $1 spent since 2012.

Download the 2018 SLB Annual Report here.
Download the 2018 SLB Annual Report in French here.
If you would like a printed copy, please email info@softwoodlumberboard.org.

Download the Growing the Future for Wood Infographic.
Download the Growing the Future for Wood Infographic in French.