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...
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....
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....
May 24, 2021 —The panel market and the plywood market, in particular, continues to roll along this month. As high as prices are, they continue to edge higher. Same tune as last month, though the scramble for quick shipping wood in May seems to have...
April 21, 2021 — During the middle to end of March, our plywood sales pace slowed somewhat, but the April plywood sales pace has picked up considerably in the past three weeks, once again, enabling us to extend order files and raise prices....
March 22, 2021 — Commodity panel markets continue to surge due to limited availability, astounding all participants. It is hard to believe, but current western 15/32 CD 4-ply is currently trading approximately 60 percent higher than the previous record high in September of 2020. Fairly...
February 22, 2021 — The commodity lumber and panel markets continue to press higher over the last few weeks, continuing on their record-breaking run of prices. Plywood in the west has been steady to good to strong, depending on the day of the week. Buyers...
January 25,2021 — The commodity markets have cooled off in both Lumber and panels over the past couple of weeks, though panels, so far, have not shown any deep price cuts, unlike many lumber dimension items. With record high prices in January on most commodity...
December 22, 2020 — In the past 3-4 weeks, we’ve seen a remarkable resurgence in lumber and panel markets. With the lumber markets starting their rise 6-7 weeks ago, we now see panel markets following as well. All commodity lumber and panel markets are on...
November 30, 2020 — Over the past few weeks, we have seen gradual improvements in commodity plywood markets heading into the end of the year. Prices have consolidated, leveled out, and now are moving upward a bit, for the first time in 10 weeks. Last...