MPP Products The variety of products we will be able to produce at Freres Lumber will increase dramatically when production begins at the new MPP facility. We would like our customers to imagine new applications for our products with open minds. Scarf-line Products Our MPP plant began production...
January 29, 2018 A return to the highs of summer in lumber and panel markets The month of January has ushered in strong commodity lumber and panel markets. A positive for mills like Freres Lumber, but looking back on what has transpired in just the past three...
January 23, 2018 Forest management is an important discussion that is long overdue. Rob Freres, Executive Vice President of Freres Lumber Company adds his comment to the on-going discussion affecting current legislative actions. It was an eventful fall in Washington on federal forest issues with new developments...
January 15, 2018 Wood Products Market Predictions for 2018 Wood products producers are some of the most pessimistic prognosticators around. Rarely do we at believe that the future will bring sunshine and fair markets. 2017, however, ended on a high note from a macro-economic perspective and 2018...
December 26, 2017 Positive Plywood Market Delivers a Good Holiday Season to the Mills In the past two weeks, the plywood market has gradually found better traction, and has enabled mills to firm numbers up a bit on most items, going into the Christmas week. In the...
December 19, 2017 It has been a momentous holiday season for Freres Lumber Company! We are not only celebrating our 95th year in operation, but the world’s first Mass Plywood Panel has finally been produced! At 6:15PM, on December 18th, a panel 4” thick by 8’...
December 11, 2017 Housing starts rebounded sharply in October to 1.29 million units after receding in September due to the economic effects of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Housing permits were also up by almost 5.9% indicating additional growth in starts to come. GDP growth surprised with...
Volatile Plywood Market To Carry Us Through to January The US plywood market have traveled some distance in pricing this past summer and early fall, ,. Like most commodity lumber and panel products, plywood supply and demand dynamics contributed to one of the most volatile markets...
After four months and a lot of hard work,of hard work, our Freres Lumber veneer production facility (Plant 4) is running again! It has not been without trial and tribulation, however. We were able to run one dryer starting on Monday, October 16th, and began...
November 13, 2017 Expected and unexpected events affect the wood products markets. Housing starts dropped in September to 1.127 million starts, the lowest level of the year. The drop in starts can largely be attributed to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which are also believed to have shaved...