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 continue to...
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 lumber and...
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 firm footing,...
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 week, most...
October 26, 2020 The commodity plywood markets remain quiet and slow on the buy side, over all. Though there are encouraging signs in the plywood marketplace, buyers are watching the downward slide of prices, across the board. Pine plywood started the slide about four weeks ago,...
September 28, 2020 Over the past few weeks, of course, the local wildfires that ravaged our local Santiam Canyon area have taken center stage. Lots of destruction, devastation, and loss for many. Now, as the local situation has largely been tamped down, recovery after the Santiam...
August 31, 2020 The commodity lumber and panel markets continue to defy conventional wisdom as well as gravity. In the past month, all-time record prices have been easily shattered. Western Plywood is no exception. The relentless wood products demand in the field continues, unabated. Order files...
July 27, 2020 The Western Plywood market continues its unrelenting march upward on prices, and outward on order files. We are now closing in on 3 months duration with the current bull run in place for commodity lumber and panel markets. Normally, when we get this...
June 22, 2020 The western plywood markets continue to roll along, with persistent strength in panel and lumber markets in general. This current bull market in commodities is about 9-10 weeks old. During this period of time there have been slight pauses. However, it seems that...
May 25, 2020 In the past three weeks we have seen Western Plywood markets building and coming alive, after about a ten week slumber. Markets are not crazy, mind you, but steady. For obvious reasons stemming from our global lockdown, all commodity markets have suffered dearly....