Business Trends USA

In advance of the 2023 Holiday season and into New Year’s, sawmills sawed more lumber ahead of this period. Many secondary manufacturers took extended breaks during this time in most areas on both sides of the border. This resulted in lower demand for raw materials. In certain areas, obtaining logs and pricing were a challenge […]

Another year has begun and the hardwood industry is busy, striving to improve efficiencies, boost margins, deal with supply chain shortages, rising interests rates, expand their sales while serving established customers and vying for new ones, all in the hopes of increasing profits. Contacts remain cautiously optimistic that business will improve this year as they […]

While lumbermen in the Lake States continued to steadily “move wood” through the fourth quarter of 2023, they agreed that “something must change” in order to hit the ground running in 2024. A Wisconsin source called the 2023 fourth quarter market “steady” but added that nothing is “booming.” “We are still moving most species except […]

Overall, lumber sources in the Northeast region said that their sales were better than they were six months ago. A lumberman in Maryland said that aside from White Oak remaining strong and with prices rising, he has noticed that Poplar and Red Oak have gotten harder to move. “Some species are easier to move and […]

Throughout the Southeast region lumber sources agreed that their markets are rather quiet, at the time of this writing. One source noted that while his sales are slow, he has started to receive more inquiries out of Asia than expected. In North Carolina, a sawmill representative said that his sales have been slower than they […]

Lumbermen on the West Coast recently spoke with nervous intrigue regarding the first quarter of 2024. At the time of this writing, three sources were slogging through a “sporadic” December that saw many lumber suppliers selling “order-to-order.” “Customers are concerned (with high interest rates) and everyone’s orders have slowed down,” said a Washington source with […]

In advance of the 2023 Holiday season and into New Year’s, sawmills sawed more lumber ahead of this period. Many secondary manufacturers took extended breaks during this time in most areas on both sides of the border. This resulted in lower demand for raw materials. In certain areas, obtaining logs and pricing were a challenge […]

Another year has begun and the hardwood industry is busy, striving to improve efficiencies, boost margins, deal with supply chain shortages, rising interests rates, expand their sales while serving established customers and vying for new ones, all in the hopes of increasing profits. Contacts remain cautiously optimistic that business will improve this year as they […]

Four lumber suppliers from the Lake States region recently agreed that market conditions have been “sluggish” overall in the last six months. According to one Wisconsin based lumber provider at the time of this writing, “Everyone is just buying what they need and not buying anything ahead. “It has been that way for the last […]

Throughout the Northeast lumber sources have mixed sentiments as to how the market is currently faring, with some stating that they are doing worse than they were six months ago and another stating that they are doing about the same. In Pennsylvania, a sawyer said that his business is not doing well, at the time […]