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Chinese Demand for Lumber to Grow

By 250 News

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:11 PM

Prince George, B.C.- The gap between China’s available wood, and it’s needs was 12 million cubic meters in 1997, but is expected to grow to 150 million cubic meters by 2015. That is a gap that B.C. is well positioned to fill says Jim Jia of L.J. Resources Company Ltd.
His company is one of the principle investors in Conifex.  Speaking at the Natural Resource forum underway in Prince George, he says the future needs for lumber in China will soon change. Up to now, the majority of wood shipments are used in the development of panels in China, Jia says the future demand will be for higher quality wood that can be used to develop interior home décor items.
He is already seeing beetle killed wood being used in the development of furniture. “It took us a long time to convince people the blue stain is not a sign of rotting wood, it is only colour.”
For now, he says beetle killed wood is not rejected, it is cut down to smaller strips to be used inside concrete apartments as an anchor for walls and flooring, or to shore up concrete forms.  It is also being used as the core for wood flooring strips and finger jointed panel construction.

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Comment Posted by: pgguru on January 12 2011 12:15 PM
well whats the hold up winton global and canfor?
Comment Posted by: sledheadpg on January 12 2011 1:10 PM
my buddy is a logger and he told me rustad showed up on his "accepting logs" report from canfor for march?? he thinks with canfor shutting down clear lake they are going to restart rustad's. he's not 100% sure what this means, but rustad has not showed up on this list since they shut down. this can only be good, especially since demand from the chinese is ramping up. wouldnt it be nice to be able to tell the americans we are sold out!!
Comment Posted by: Junco on January 12 2011 2:18 PM
I agree sledheadpg, it would be so satisfying to tell the Americans where to put their often disputed and skewed version of the softwood agreement. Who's wearing the white hats now eh?
Comment Posted by: DPJ on January 12 2011 2:59 PM
Be less dependant on the US should be our number one goal.
Comment Posted by: NoSeverance on January 12 2011 10:23 PM
Sledheadpg think about that for a second. March is spring break up so no trucks haul from spring until summer.

If Canfor wants to start Rustad's back up they will have to spend a few dollars replacing the parts/equipment they ripped out and put in other mills.