Month: January 2023
274 posts
Cape Cod Air Grilles, The PerfectFit For A Niche Market
Yarmouth, MA – Wooden heat registers may seem like the ultimate niche market, but for the team at Cape Cod Air Grilles, it is a perfect fit. Lynn Doherty, owner of the company, recalled how her father came almost accidentally to create the Yarmouth, Massachusetts-based business more than 25 years ago. “He was a builder […]
Appalachian Lumbermen’s Club Closes Year With Report: Railroad Tie Markets Strong In 2022
Johnson City, TN– Railroad tie markets are strong and should remain that way for the next few quarters, according to a report to the Appalachian Lumbermen’s Club (ALC), which met here recently. A representative of North America’s leading railroad tie producing companies spoke to a large ALC crowd of sawmill and distribution yard companies from […]
Lake States Business Trends – January 2023
The state of Hardwood lumber sales in the Lake States could best be described at press time as laboring or working hard to keep going. That’s the assessment of an Indiana lumberman. “The market seems to be chugging along,” he stated. However, “Sales are still good,” he added. “The market is weaker than it was […]
2023 Equipment Forecasts: Equipment And Services Providers Adapt To Market Conditions To Succeed
Equipment and services companies that serve the Hardwood lumber industry have introduced new equipment and made numerous installations in recent months. However, as one company leader put it, “With the softening of the lumber markets, we anticipate that big mill projects will slow down, and mills will focus on critical projects over the larger capital […]
HMA’s National Conference and Expo: A Catalyst For Change
2022 may be in the rearview mirror, but the challenges of last year – labor shortages, supply chain constraints, product shortages, inflation – remain front and center. Now, if yours’ is the ‘glass-half-empty’ mindset, 2023 is looking bleak. But for us ‘glass-half-full’ enthusiasts, we’re hyped and ready to get this new year started. And we’d […]
Northeast Business Trends – January 2023
Across the Northeast region, sources vary on how the market is treating them. They do, however, share a similar sentiment, at press time, that the overall market looks as though it will continue to be unstable. In Pennsylvania, a sawmill representative said that his business is good and appears to be stabilizing. Despite his business […]
