National Hardwood Magazine - Christmas 2022

2023 HARDWOOD PURCHASING PLANS Continued
ing will have in-floor heat, two new Mellott double cut
head saws with Cleereman carriages feeding a Mellott
re-saw, TS optimized edger, and Mellott double end trimmer.
Once the new mill is fully up and running, we will be
sourcing almost all our lumber from our own mill to take
advantage of an extremely high-quality resource which
will give us and our customers a more consistent product
from batch to batch. With 45 percent of our product mix
being Walnut, we will still need to source it from outside
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mills, along with some of the other subspecies that our
mill doesn’t cut.
We are dealing with employee issues as well. We see
the new state-of-the-art mill as one way to get ahead of
the issue. Our employees see a huge investment happening
and know the company they work for is reinvesting
and is in it for the long haul.
We have taken advantage of automation opportunities
as much as possible on equipment selection. At our
kiln facility we are looking at some
automation upgrades as well. Apart
from automation, we do our best to
make the work environment enjoyable
like offering weekly catered
lunches, company swag giveaways
a couple times per year, baseball
game outings, and more. s
at the market as we decide what new products we might
launch. We are continuously trying to find more modern
looks for stairs, like steel mono stringer stairs, glass rails
and horizontal iron rails.
When it comes to transportation, the cost of fuel continues
to be a concern. We must look at suppliers to
reduce transportation cost if we buy larger amounts of
product.
The number one issue with getting product made on
time and installing our product is the lack of employees.
We continue to run ads for employees
and offer bonuses for new hires
and bonuses for current employees
that recommend new employees
to hire. Customers have been told
of longer lead times. We will ask
for decisions from the customer as
early as possible in the home building
process so we can meet the demand.
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widening roads, tunnels and two major stadium projects.
We noticed that our customers preferred our highquality
spruce products (SPF) for the dimensional
lumber and southern pine for the plywood. In 2023 we
anticipate the introduction of new products with the architectural
finish film face overlay plywood. We will also
continue to team with other lumber companies to further
our service to our clients.
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JIM LEWIS
VISION STAIRWAYS
AND MILLWORK
WOODSTOCK, GA
I think that the price of lumber
will continue to increase in 2023.
As natural disasters, like hurricane
Ian, continue to destroy homes in
places like Florida, the demand will
continue to stay high for high-end
home builders.
Our best products in 2022 were
White Oak, iron rails and stairs,
and glass rails. Some of our products
that we have struggled with in
2022 have been commodity products,
traditional stairs, and stair
parts.
We noticed that our customers
had a strong preference towards
White Oak, followed by Red Oak,
in 2022.
In 2023 we will continue to look
LITA ABELE
US LUMBER INC.
WOODBURY HEIGHTS, NJ
We anticipate that the lumber
buying prices will be more stable
in 2023 than 2022.
We will likely will not see the
high prices that we experienced in
2022. We market lumber in various
species, including mixed Hardwoods
(including the Oaks).
Throughout 2022 the products
that sold particularly well were plywood
and softwood lumber. We
did not have any products that
struggled to sell with all of them
doing well, especially to the concrete
contractors. We have provided
supplies of lumber for high rise
buildings, hotels, casinos, schools,
universities, hospitals, bridges,
Patrick Lumber Company
Over 100 Years in Business
Est 1915
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Products:
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Suite 1050
Portland, OR 97204
503-222-9671
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