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April 5, 2022

Extreme supply chain chaos hits lumber industry in N. America

The strangest North American lumber market in memory keeps getting stranger.  Canfor Corp., one of North America’s biggest lumber producers, said last week that it will shift to a four-day workweek at most of its 11 mills in British Columbia and Alberta starting April 4; not because of inadequate demand, but because it’s run out of room to pile the boards that customers are ordering at a startling rate.  “We are experiencing extreme supply chain challenges,” Don Kayne, chief executive of Vancouver-based Canfor, said in a press release on March 31. “It ...

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