The Softwood Forest Products Buyer - November/December 2022

Bill DenHoed is the specialty products purchasing
manager for Sprenger Midwest Wholesale Lumber,
located in Sioux Falls, SD.
Sprenger Midwest is a regional wholesaler offering
Cedar, treated wood, Spruce-Pine-Fir, White Fir,
machine-stress-rated engineered wood, plywood,
oriented strand board and Pine boards.
Value-added products offered by the company
include pre-finished siding.
Bill DenHoed
DenHoed graduated from Canton High School,
located in Canton, SD, in 1985 and studied carpentry at Minnesota West
Kyle Jones is a long-standing sales representative
for West Bay Forest Products Ltd, located in Fort
Langley, BC.
West Bay Forest Products Ltd offers Western Red
Cedar products, including: posts, rails, trim and fascia
boards, decking, fencing, siding, timbers, balusters,
patterns and custom inquiries. Our four facilities,
which include sawmills and remanufacturing plants,
Kyle Jones produce approximately 40-50 million board feet annually.
Jones has been working in the forest products industry for 24 years, all
North American CLT vs. Imported Product
Stringent standard assures consistent value and
performance
Following another successful Traders Market
event this year in Phoenix, it’s time to join NAW-
LA for exciting industry content we’re bringing
you in 2023.
Connect with Fellow Industry
Leaders at NAWLA’s Leadership Summit
Please mark your calendar and join us for the 2023 NAWLA Leadership
Summit, taking place in person at the JW Marriott Desert Resort & Spa
in Palm Desert, CA! This 3-day event is tailored toward organizational
and industry leaders looking to connect to discuss business challenges and
present new solutions for the industry. Registration opens at the end of
2022.
Who’s Who in Softwoods
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Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is
lightweight, yet extremely strong
with superior acoustic, fire, seismic
and thermal performance. It
offers fast and easy installation,
with virtually no waste onsite. CLT
offers design flexibility and low
environmental impacts, making it
a strong alternative to conventional
materials like concrete, masonry or
steel—particularly on larger construction projects.
CLT manufactured in North America must meet stringent product
standards and be certified to the ANSI/APA PRG 320 Standard for Performance-Rated
Cross-Laminated Timber. Products manufactured outside of
North America may not meet these same performance expectations. APA
– The Engineered Wood Association explains key characteristics evaluated
in the certification process.
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Joe Penrod is a product manager for Alta Forest
Products, located in Chehalis, WA.
Alta Forest Products produces over 300 million
board feet of over 140 different fencing products
manufactured from Western Red Cedar, as well as
pre-stained Whitewood. The company manufactures
5/8-inch Green, Rough boards in 3-to-7 1/2-inch
widths, and lengths from 42-inches to eight feet in Pallet
through Clear grades.
Joe Penrod
Penrod was born and raised in Southern California,
and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Brigham Young Univer-
Wayne Carlisle is a lumber trader for Mars Hill
Inc., based in Waynesboro, MS.
Mars Hill Inc., a wholesale lumber company, supplies
and markets 1x4 through 2x12 Spruce-Pine-Fir
and mostly 4/4 through 8/4 hardwoods to its customers
located throughout North America. The operation
also sells some industrial plywood in 4x8 sheets and
Southern Yellow Pine cut stock to some of its customers.
Wayne Carlisle
Carlisle has been in his current role for approximately
15 years. Previous experience includes family-owned and operated Car-
By: Jackson Morrill
President & CEO of the American Wood Council
There is some remarkable news to share for the
countless professionals who work in the design, architecture,
construction, fire service, and code enforcement
Jackson Morrill
space, especially those who rely on standards for the
design of wood members, assemblies and connections.
After nearly seven years of AWC convening meetings, collaboration and
consensus building, the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) approved the Fire Design
Specification for Wood Construction (FDS) as an
American National Standard. Officially designated
as ANSI/AWC FDS-2022, it is essentially the
authoritative, one-stop shop resource for all the
provisions for the fire design of wood members,
assemblies and connections needed to meet the
current code requirements.
While this development may have flown under a
Get Ready for 2023 with NAWLA
New ANSI Approved Standard
Marks Big Step For Managing
By NAWLA Staff
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Back By Popular Demand –
NAWLA’s Executive
Management Institute
Join NAWLA April 2023 for the Executive
Management Institute (EMI), a rigorous educational
program designed for new and current
senior leaders in the forest products industry and held in conjunction
with one of the world’s top-ranked business schools, the Kellogg School
of Management at Northwestern University. The NAWLA EMI course
content is designed for members who have senior management in mind
— weaving the needs, challenges and areas of opportunity for the industry
throughout the course.
Learn more about attending Leadership Summit or registering for Executive Management Institute at nawla.org.
Table of Contents
FEATURES
NELMA'S 89th Meeting........... 1
Global Buyers Mission............ 1
2022 LAT Convention.............. 1
DMSi......................................... 4
Sawmill Surplus....................... 6
IWF............................................ 7
WRCLA, Mass Timber
Construction......................... 8
Timber Products Reception.... 9
TP&EE Reception.................. 10
DEPARTMENTS
Who's Who in Softwoods....... 2
AWC News................................ 2
NAWLA News........................... 2
APA News................................. 2
SLB News................................. 3
Washington Scene................ 11
Retail Review......................... 34
Northeast Bus. Trends.......... 36
Inland West Bus. Trends....... 36
Midwest Bus. Trends............... 38
West Coast Bus. Trends......... 38
Southeast Bus.Trends.............40
Ont./Quebec Bus. Trends..... 40
Softwood Stock
Exchange.......................56-59
Trade Talk............................... 60
In Memoriam.......................... 64
Softwood Calendar................ 65
Classified Opportunities....... 66
Index of Advertisers.............. 66
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SLB Celebrates The Student Winners Of
The 2022 Timber Competition
How can we help create a sustainable built environment
in the future? One way is to help educate the
architects who will be designing it about the embodied
carbon benefits of using wood as a structural material
today.
That’s why the Softwood Lumber Board partnered
with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
(ACSA), the Georgia Institute of Technology’s
School of Architecture, and the Kendeda Building for
Innovative Sustainable Design to hold the 2022 Timber
Competition. This student design contest—which,
in previous years, was sponsored by the ACSA and
the Binational Softwood Lumber Council—invites entrants
from accredited schools of architecture around
the country to solve real-world design problems.
The teams create designs that innovate with timber
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First place “Pine Hill,” designed by Peter Koczarski and Zhong-
Ming Peter Zhang, students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology,
with support from faculty sponsor Caroline Grieco.
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