December 23, 2019 Commodity plywood markets are unyielding, limping into the holiday weeks with few changes in prices or in the marketplace. Customers seem content to stay the course—that is, buy their needs, only. No changes really. Prices are trading in a very narrow and low range. There is simply...
November 25, 2019 The commodity plywood markets continue to be consistently mediocre, but that’s not all bad. Light to no inventory positions by most customers require them to be fill-in buying frequently. And due to a slight but welcome uptick in the level of business in...
December 31, 2018 Surprisingly, December turned out to be a great sales month, with winter plywood sales filling the depleted inventories that distributors have allowed to shrink over the last seven months. Yes, remarkable, but true. The brutal summer and fall commodity markets took their toll on...
October 22, 2018 The plywood market, like almost all commodity lumber and panel markets, continues to struggle with lethargic buying interest and excess available product available to customers. Imports Affect the Commodities Markets The commodity lumber and panel markets continue their downward spiral of prices that has, with...
September 24, 2018 Disappointing Sales Leading Into the Fall The western plywood markets, with the exception of some increased buying prior to and after the Hurricane in the southeast, have largely been disappointing in September. The lethargy that has been prevalent in our marketplace is indicative of...
August 27, 2018 After a long and harsh June and July, the commodity markets for lumber and panels have experienced a turnaround in the past couple weeks, but not all at the same time. Suffice to say that most commodity items are stable, not going down...
July 30, 2018 Buying as needed until western plywood market increases pace. The western plywood markets continued to struggle throughout July, part of the larger price swoon by all commodity lumber and panel products that has gone on for almost two months. Depending on the item, most...
June 25, 2018 The month of June has been a bit disappointing, in that buying has so far been poking along all month. Fortunately, mills had decent order files to fall back on, so price adjustments have been modest. With commodity lumber and panel prices at...
May 29, 2018 Lumber Products Gain Strength in May The month of May has brought an improved marketplace for commodity plywood, among many other strong commodity lumber product performances. Trading had remained lackluster right up to the end of April, but as we turned the corner into May...
May 7, 2018 Plywood Market Inches Upward The plywood market has improved in the past couple weeks, but by small degrees so far. That said, we are optimistic about May business and expect it to be better than April. Why? Most of March and half of April...