Lumber Sales Trip In China A Good One
By 250 News
Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:39 AM
Tokyo - British Columbia's largest ever forestry trade mission to China
ended on a high note with new orders to close off another record-breaking
sales year, announced Forests and Range Minister Pat Bell.
"Companies participating in the China mission estimate they have generated
sales of 156 million board feet of lumber to China for November and
December," said Bell. "We're on track to hit 1.5 billion board feet this
year, roughly double last year's record. If we keep our focus, we can reach
4 billion board feet by the end of 2011."
Recent figures for January to August 2009 show that British Columbia
exported 975 million board feet of softwood products to China, well over the
record 784 million board feet exported in all of 2008.
Key site visits for delegates on the trade mission included a China National
Building Materials warehouse at the Taicang Port in Shanghai, re-roofing
projects, remanufacturing facilities using B.C. hemlock and spruce-pine-fir,
and a recreational housing development outside Beijing. Tour delegates also
participated in events to launch a new wood-frame construction building code
for Shanghai and to celebrate a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the
City of Shanghai to use wood-frame construction in affordable housing.
Bell and forest industry CEOs also attended a key meeting with the Vice
Minister of China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the
central government body responsible for the nation's residential
construction, including earthquake redevelopment. Afterward, Bell and the
CEOs visited the China International Exhibit on Housing Industry, China's
largest building materials trade event. Other trade mission delegates met
with officials to discuss Hebei Province's re-roofing projects, the largest
use of wood truss systems in China to date, and the potential use of
wood-frame technology in other applications.
Tokyo - British Columbia's largest ever forestry trade mission to China
ended on a high note with new orders to close off another record-breaking
sales year, announced Forests and Range Minister Pat Bell.
"Companies participating in the China mission estimate they have generated
sales of 156 million board feet of lumber to China for November and
December," said Bell. "We're on track to hit 1.5 million board feet this
year, roughly double last year's record. If we keep our focus, we can reach
4 billion board feet by the end of 2011."
Recent figures for January to August 2009 show that British Columbia
exported 975 million board feet of softwood products to China, well over the
record 784 million board feet exported in all of 2008.
Key site visits for delegates on the trade mission included a China National
Building Materials warehouse at the Taicang Port in Shanghai, re-roofing
projects, remanufacturing facilities using B.C. hemlock and spruce-pine-fir,
and a recreational housing development outside Beijing. Tour delegates also
participated in events to launch a new wood-frame construction building code
for Shanghai and to celebrate a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the
City of Shanghai to use wood-frame construction in affordable housing.
Bell and forest industry CEOs also attended a key meeting with the Vice
Minister of China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the
central government body responsible for the nation's residential
construction, including earthquake redevelopment. Afterward, Bell and the
CEOs visited the China International Exhibit on Housing Industry, China's
largest building materials trade event. Other trade mission delegates met
with officials to discuss Hebei Province's re-roofing projects, the largest
use of wood truss systems in China to date, and the potential use of
wood-frame technology in other applications.
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Posted by: kitkat on November 12 2009 11:19 AM