Le bois d’œuvre et la production de bois constituent l’un des moyens les plus directs d’exprimer la sensibilité au cycle du logement. Les usines ont besoin de suffisamment de démarrages, d'activités de réparation et de demande de panneaux de bois pour maintenir une utilisation saine, mais elles doivent également composer avec de fortes fluctuations de prix, des perturbations météorologiques et des coûts de transport. La catégorie se comporte donc comme un hybride de demande de construction et de fabrication de matières premières.
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Lumber & Wood Production en un coup d'oeil
2025 housing starts
Total housing starts in 2025, the key North American demand anchor.
Single-family starts
Single-family starts in 2025, the clearest read-through for framing lumber.
Forest-products output
AF&PA says the US forest-products industry manufactures more than $435 billion of products annually.
Industry jobs
AF&PA estimate of employment tied to the US forest-products industry.
What shapes this industry
Key factors
Framing lumber and structural panels still depend heavily on detached-home starts and repair activity.
A few points of utilization can change pricing and profit dramatically in a commodity wood market.
Wildfire, harvest limits, rail availability, and trucking all matter because product is bulky and regional.
Sawmill cycle
Lumber behaves like housing demand translated through mill turns
This is less a forest romance than a utilization and logistics problem. The economics are set at the sawmill and in the builder channel.
Total housing starts in 2025, the key North American demand anchor.
Single-family starts in 2025, the clearest read-through for framing lumber.
AF&PA says the US forest-products industry manufactures more than $435 billion of products annually.
AF&PA estimate of employment tied to the US forest-products industry.
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