Volume 12 Number 2 - June 2006 edition

FOCUS:  Sawmillers face hard choices as costs rise

Southern Hemisphere sawmillers are facing some hard choices as the going gets tough on export markets and increased costs at home further reduce margins.
    

• Higher costs and competition from China impacting Chile
• New Zealand domestic market no place to hide
• Australia takes hit as building bubble bursts
• New strength found in Argentina
• South Africa building on domestic sales as new challenges arrive

SOUTHEM NEWS AND MARKETS
    

• Projects from hell have lessons for all
• Southern Hemisphere Pine Price Index
• Currency spur to export sales
• US lumber imports from SOUTHEM countries
• New Zealand MAF log prices
• Export log sales

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