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Softwood lumber price development for 2-by-4 free Great Lakes region up to calendar week 48/2014 © Holzkurier

Stable US price

Article by Gerd Ebner, translated by Robert Spannlang | 01.12.2014 - 09:19

Only currency fluctuation costs € 1/m³

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Softwood lumber price development for 2-by-4 free Great Lakes region up to calendar week 48/2014 © Holzkurier

In a week shortened by a holiday, softwood lumber prices remained virtually unchanged. Random Lengths registered the price for 2-by-4 at US$ 425/1000 bft. Given an Euro exchange rate of US$ 1.25 this translates into a price of € 220.4/m³ – € 1/ m³ less than a week ago.

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