Top global lumber companies’ production recorded a net decline in 2019. The same 15 companies that made the list in 2018 did so again in 2019, with only a half-dozen firms increasing their output (and most with minor increases).  Today, amid the fallout from COVID-19, all bets are off about many lumber companies’ ability to make the list in 2020.   For the global top 15 sawmill companies, the average decrease in production was 2.5%; this compares to gains in each of the previous five years. The list is based on companies with reported softwood lumber ...