January 24, 2021 — Prices continue to grind higher in the commodity plywood markets, with uneven participation, during the first three weeks of January. Winter weather across the upper half of the country and concerns about markets doing a repeat of 2021 has buyers operating...
December 27, 2021 — Like all commodity lumber and panel markets, plywood has been on a roll the past five to six weeks, dating back to the week before Thanksgiving. The past several weeks have seen the plywood markets undergo sharp week to week price...
November 22, 2021 — Commodity plywood prices in the west have been grinding lower in the past several weeks, but this week, the markets have again turned modestly upward....
October 25, 2021 — The Western Plywood markets have been mostly steady, with structural plywood prices grinding slowly upward over the past 30 days. Most customers have welcomed the relative calm in the commodity panel markets, though the western plywood has not been easy 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...
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....