March 11, 2019 — Winter Arrives, Hampering Building Activity. Winter is upon us and with it comes a slowdown in the wood products markets. Since the last market report, Oregon went from under 80% of the annual snowpack to 116% percent, the Sierra Nevadas was...
March 4, 2019 — Freres Lumber’s Mass Plywood Panel (MPP) is an affordable mass timber product that is gaining worldwide acceptance as a safe, high performance, and environmentally sound building material. This veneer-based product can be produced up to 12-feet wide, 48-feet long, and 12-inches...
February 24, 2019 — Currently, the commodity panel markets continue to struggle with the effects of wet and wintry weather throughout a great deal of the country....
February 15, 2019 — Over the past few weeks, Freres Lumber Company’s Mass Plywood Panel received patents and passed fire safety testing, putting it on course to be the only mass timber panel constructed entirely from Structural Composite Lumber (SCL)....
February 11, 2019 — Wood Products Industry Affected by a Drag in Housing Starts. Housing starts experienced a very real slow down in the last half of 2018 which has had dramatic effects on the wood products industry. However, the slowdown has largely been exaggerated....
January 28, 2019 — The Western Plywood market has been decent so far this year, but unspectacular. As with any winter trading in commodities, the market trends are a mixed bag due to the ebb and flow of winter weather across the country. Buyers remain...
January 14, 2019 — Wood product markets began to show marked improvement as we ended 2018. The end of 2018 can best be categorized as a slow bleed, with product prices dropping across the board. Even good news for wood products markets didn’t slow the...
January 11, 2019 — A new year is upon us, and it is customary to contemplate what lies ahead for Freres Lumber in 2019. We have many things to be thankful for, and we think there is much opportunity ahead of us in the next...
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....
December 10, 2018 — Wood products prices have been declining relentlessly over the last couple of months, regardless of the product. While lumber led the way initially, panel prices declined to price lows that have not been seen for three years. For example, ½” 4-ply...