October 13, 2021 — President Biden recently issued Executive Order 14042 directing all federal agencies to ensure that contracts entered into with government contractors and subcontractors include clauses forcing workforce vaccination....
October 11, 2021 — Plywood prices began improving early in September and have grown continuously upward since then. It was a grind because price increases were hard fought and very gradual over the month. The result, however, was a 12 percent increase in prices to...
September 27, 2021 — The past three to four weeks have seen marked improvement in the commodity plywood markets. Gradual improvement at first, but picking up the pace. This uptick has followed the long and tortuous ordeal of moving off old, high-priced inventory from yards...
August 23, 2021 — The commodity plywood market continues to extend an already long sales drought for yet another week. Remarkably, buyers, for the most part, have managed to stay out of the marketplace as prices have dropped to the lowest levels in 18 months...
August 16, 2021 — Oregon is in big trouble – a direct result of an unprecedented wildfire crisis that is sweeping the western United States, posing an alarming and increasing risk to our state’s forests, rural communities and family-owned businesses....
August 9, 2021 — We are currently experiencing an extraordinary drop in plywood pricing from the historic highs reached in previous months. Plywood pricing has dropped 65% from highs of $2105/msf in July to $800/msf at the beginning of August, according to Random Lengths....
July 28, 2021 — The commodity plywood markets continue to be in disarray, as they have been for the past three to four weeks. Prior to that was an additional four to five weeks of extremely slow sales....
July 13, 2021 — Structural panel sales volumes moderated over the last few weeks as purchasers absorbed the duration of order files, as well as the new high in sales price hit for ½” CDX panels. Last week, ½” 4-ply CDX hit an all-time high...
June 28, 2021 — The commodity plywood and panel markets, in general, have remained slow on the sales side this past month. This general market stance has been largely precipitated by the weak dimension lumber markets of the past month....
June 14, 2021 — Structural panel sales volumes moderated over the last few weeks as purchasers absorbed the duration of order files, as well as the new high in sales price hit for ½” CDX panels. Last week, ½” 4-ply CDX hit an all-time high...