December 19, 2016 As the year-end wood products markets stabilize, Freres Lumber Company readies for equipment upgrades and the new Mass Plywood Product. Veneer Market Veneer prices have been stable for a couple weeks in a row and I would like to hesitantly pronounce a bottom to the...
November 28, 2016 The week before Thanksgiving turned out to be a great sales week for Freres Lumber Company. Wood products prices had been in a downward spiral for 6-7 weeks and were sitting at yearly lows, so it wasn't surprising that some bottoming action occurred....
November 14, 2016 A difficult wood products market presents challenges and opportunities for Freres Lumber Company. Declining Wood Products Markets Veneer and plywood prices have both declined over the last month. Veneer has been leading the decline with a very gradual, but painful, drop from $58.50 mid-summer to...
[caption id="attachment_8097" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Tyler Freres, VP of Sales and Eric Ortiz, Plywood Sales at NAWLA[/caption] November 6, 2016 Last week, several of us from Freres Lumber Company attended the NAWLA Traders Market in Las Vegas. It was a hectic, but fun trip and was highly productive...
October 31, 2016 We recently supported Family Building Blocks at their annual Dream Builders Luncheon in Salem, Oregon. Freres Lumber Co. is a long-standing supporter of the Family Building Blocks (FBB) mission because we believe that keeping children safe and families together is one of the...
October 24, 2016 Just like the rest of the domestic producers, Freres Lumber Company is experiencing an expected slow down in the wood products market with the change of seasons. In the last several weeks, seasonal tendencies have affected Western Plywood markets. Buyers have pulled their horns...
October 7, 2016 A big change in the international lumber market will come next week due to the expirations of the Softwood Lumber Agreement that will affect all domestic producers, including Freres Lumber Company. The grace period for the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) expires on October 13th....
September 26, 2016 The last few weeks of the western commodity sheathing market have been mostly lackluster, but this week Freres Lumber Company has had a solid week, albeit with mostly lower prices. The summer market has been unspectacular but solid overall, with few glitches, and...
September 13, 2016 Challenges coming from domestic producers and abroad The veneer market is extremely difficult. Canadian veneer producers are more concerned with selling the production from their facilities than they are the price at which they are selling veneer. With the exchange rate at $1.29...
August 22, 2016 Despite reports of overall malaise in the wood products market, Freres Lumber Company had our second consecutive week of strong sales volumes. While some discounts were necessary to prime the pump, commodity sheathing moved out in an orderly fashion. Secondaries have spent the...