Report
Charles Gross
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Canfor Benefits From Improved Lumber Pricing, Flat Unit Costs in Q3; Raising FVE to CAD 27

Canfor managed a strong third quarter, topping even our bullish expectations, increasing adjusted EBITDA to CAD 116 million from CAD 8 million in 2015. Nearly flat unit costs were a welcome surprise, with productivity improvements offsetting higher hauling and log costs in British Columbia. Seasonally higher lumber demand in the third quarter boosted dimensional lumber prices 44% in Canadian-dollar terms.
This quarter is just the beginning. There remains substantial upside for lumber demand, wit...
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Canfor Corporation

Canfor is an integrated forest products company with facilities in Canada and the U.S. Co. has two reportable segments: Lumber and Pulp and Paper. The Lumber segment includes logging operations, and manufacturing and sale of various grades, widths and lengths of lumber, engineered wood products, wood chips and wood pellets. The Pulp and Paper segment includes purchase of residual fibre, and production and sale of pulp and paper products, including Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft and Bleached Chemi-Thermo Mechanical Pulp as well as energy revenues.

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Charles Gross

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