When a lumber producer idles two sawmills in a single quarter, the effects reach well beyond the mill gates. In August 2024, one of North America’s largest forest products companies announced indefinite curtailments at its Southern Yellow Pine sawmills in Meldrim, Georgia, and Summerville, South Carolina, citing persistently weak lumber market conditions. Log deliveries stopped […]
In late August 2024, a regional lumber company based in Hillsboro, Oregon, acquired a True Value hardware and lumber yard in Rochester, Washington, as its 25th lumberyard. The property sits on seven acres just off Interstate 5, was founded in 1972, and added a hardware store in 1992. The deal retained eight long-tenured employees, and
Insulation performs best when it runs continuously across the building envelope, with no framing members punching a thermal shortcut from inside to outside. That principle now drives energy codes across North America, and it has pushed continuous insulation from a premium option to a standard detail on walls, roofs, and foundations. Placement matters as much
A regional building products distributor with ten branches across the western United States made its first move into manufacturing by building a 130,000 sq ft moulding and millwork plant on a 40-acre site. The plant supplies doors, trim, and MDF products to the company’s own distribution network, and the pattern is spreading across the industry.
A building material supplier is the quiet backbone of a construction project. When a long-established yard in Montana changed its name in 2024 after three decades in the same market, the products and the people stayed, and the announcement made the point that a supplier’s value is the team, the stock and the delivery truck,
Building material dealers and distributors depend on product knowledge. The monthly trade press that serves the lumber industry, such as the NELMA special issue that Building Products Digest published in September 2024, exists to keep buyers current on grading rules, species and supply conditions. For anyone who buys or specifies wood, the payoff is the
When a building materials distributor opens a branch in a region it previously served from hundreds of miles away, contractors notice quickly. Lead times shrink, freight costs drop, and showroom staff can answer questions on the spot instead of routing them to a distant warehouse. That logic drives the steady expansion of regional distribution networks
Deck railings carry two jobs at once: they keep people safe at the edge of a drop, and they define how the whole outdoor space looks. For decades the choice was between real wood, which needs refinishing, and plain metal, which reads as industrial. Vinyl changed that equation, and a new generation of woodgrain finishes
Building product manufacturers keep adding production capacity across the country, from asphalt plant openings that boost production to the first large-scale U.S. facility dedicated to acetylated wood, which began commercial production in Kingsport, Tennessee, in 2024. The plant replicates the design of an established European facility and gives North American builders a domestic source of
PotlatchDeltic completed a 131 million dollar modernization of its sawmill in Waldo, Arkansas, and the facility is ramping toward a new capacity of 275 million board feet of dimensional lumber per year. The project added a new saw line, a planer upgrade, a continuous kiln, and a 170-foot, 45-ton log crane, and the company expects
