A lumber dealer that has served construction customers in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania for more than 50 years does not move its headquarters lightly. When Certified Lumber and Building Supply left its Brooklyn home for a 12-acre complex in Bloomingburg, New York, it paired a 20,000-square-foot warehouse with a 10,000-square-foot exterior lumberyard and […]
Building Products Digest describes itself as a monthly magazine for lumber and building material dealers and distributors, and its October 2024 edition packages a Show Guide for the NAWLA Traders Market alongside product news. That combination reflects the dealer’s core job: deciding which products deserve shelf space and which will actually perform for the contractors
A well-run lumberyard event can teach a builder more in one afternoon than a month of scrolling product pages. Vendors set up displays, reps answer questions about species and finishes, and visitors leave with samples, price sheets, and practical fixes for problems they have been putting off. At a 30th annual open house hosted by
Consolidation keeps changing the way building materials reach job sites. When a wood treater buys a competitor, plants move under new management, product lines merge, and the lumber stacked on a dealer’s yard can shift without much notice. The same pattern runs through the wider industry, from construction equipment to fasteners and software. Builders who
Pressure-treated lumber carries a heavy share of North American construction: decking, fence pickets, posts, and ground-contact framing all depend on wood that resists rot and insects. The companies that produce it keep consolidating, and every acquisition reshapes how much treated stock reaches regional markets. When a treater with roughly 800 million board feet of annual
A national building materials supplier is building a $13.4 million component plant in Clarendon County, South Carolina, its second in the state, with 78 new jobs attached. The company already operates 320 facilities nationwide, and the expansion follows a pattern reshaping residential construction: framing work keeps moving out of the weather and into factories. Contractors
Western red cedar has been a staple of North American construction for more than a century. Builders choose it for decking, siding, fencing, and outdoor structures because it resists decay naturally and stays dimensionally stable in wet climates. Its straight grain and easy workability also make it a favorite of woodworkers, who use cedar for
One of the largest sawmills in the American Southwest opened in northern Arizona in late 2024, and the project says a lot about where lumber comes from and why. The facility processes logs harvested from national forests, where crews thin dense stands to reduce wildfire risk, then converts that timber into framing lumber for builders.
For more than three decades, composite decking has carried the outdoor living market, and the category now covers far more than the deck boards themselves. Railing systems in steel, aluminum, cable, and glass grew up alongside the boards, and the tools used to install them changed too. A modern deck crew reaches for the same
Pressure-treated lumber is the default material for decks, fences, and any structure that touches soil or weather, and for good reason: a properly treated board resists rot, fungus, and insects for decades. The service life depends on three variables: the treatment chemistry, the retention level, and the exposure class. Builders who understand those variables can
