National Hardwood Magazine - July 2011

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ALC MEETING PHOTOS - Continued from page 23 Stuart Deacon, W.R. Deacon & Sons, Lexington, Va.; Sylvia Church, Church & Church Lumber, Millers Creek, N.C.; and Emery Grimes, W.M. Cramer Lumber Co., Marlinton, W.Va. Kendell Cockram, Griffith Lumber Co. Inc., Woolwine, Va.; Grace Ruan, Coco Lumber LLC, Laurinburg, N.C.; and Caitlyn Priddy and Jesse Cockram, Griffith Lumber Co. Inc. Gavin, John and Kathie Varner, Denton Hardwoods Inc., Denton, N.C.; and Mary and Kenneth Stephens, Associated Hardwoods Inc., Granite Falls, N.C. Olivia, Scott, Stephanie, Jackson and Paige England, Mountain State Hardwoods, Bancroft, Va. Meridith and Bruce Church, Church & Church Lumber, Millers Creek, N.C.; and Vicki and Kin Church, Select Hardwoods, Millers Creek, N.C. David, Linda and Ashley McLean and Ethan Creech, Bruce & Jenkins Lumber Co., Greensboro, N.C. Tom and Rosemary Inman, Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Inc., High Point, N.C.; and Janice Vance and Fred Harden, Gilkey Lumber Co., Rutherfordton, N.C. Bruce, Teresa and Mark Church, Church & Church Lumber, Millers Creek, N.C. 32 Hardwoods...The All-Purpose Material
ALC MEETING PHOTOS - Continued Steve, Leah and Claire Leonard, Lawrence Lumber Co., Maiden, N.C.; and Libby and Larry Walker, Forest Products Inc., Conover, N.C. Larry Cockram, Griffith Lumber Co. Inc., Woolwine, Va.; Gale Keener, Mullican Flooring, Ronceverte, W.Va.; and Anne Vogler and Joe Lyle, WNC Dry Kiln Inc., Marion, N.C. Chris Buck, Forest Products Inc., Conover, N.C.; Ray Hunt, Austin Hunt Lumber Co., Statesville, N.C.; and Jimmy Lee, Tides & Times Group USA, Winston Salem, N.C. ALC MEETING - Continued from page 22 Scott of Conover Lumber Co., Conover, N.C.; Roy Turner and Linwood Truitt of Beasley Forest Products/Thompson Hardwoods, Hazlehurst, Ga.; and Rodney Lawing, Conover Lumber Co. The second place team with a two under par was Cliff McKittrick, of J.W. McKittrick Lumber Co., Camden, S.C.; Mark Church, of Church & Church Lumber LLC, Millers Creek, N.C.; and Gary Miller, of National Hardwood Magazine, Memphis, Tenn. Gary Miller reported for National Hardwood Magazine that, “On my way from Memphis, Tenn., to Myrtle Beach, S.C., I stopped and visited several Hardwood sawmillers and owners of Hardwood distribution/concentration yards in the Appalachian region, and I asked them about current business conditions. Some of their comments follow: “On a scale of one to 10, I think business conditions are a six or a seven,” said the sales manager of a large sawmill operation. “We have plenty of logs in our log yard but we are concerned about how we’ve lost many logging companies in our Marsha and Linwood Truitt, Beasley Forest Products/Thompson Hardwoods, Hazlehurst, Ga. area. With the low prices we’ve been getting for our lumber the last several months, we’ve had to get our loggers to take less money for their logs. They didn’t like it but they accepted it.” An owner of a Hardwood concentration yard with dry kilns told me he thought business conditions were a five on a scale of one to 10. He explained, “The only saving grace for the Hardwood lumber industry is the fact that many parts of the eastern seaboard of the United States have had a lot of rain, therefore, many Hardwood sawmill operations are very low on logs and they are not running their mills at full capacity. So there is not a lot of green or kiln dried lumber available presently. But I think the Hardwood lumber supply is balanced with what the demand for lumber is right now.” One of the owners of a sawmill operation that exports both Hardwood logs and lumber said, “We’ve had the best several months of sales and profits from October 2010 through May 2011, and most of it is due to our strong export markets. I like the idea that we see Red Oak lumber prices increasing, and our White Oak lumber sales have been strong. But, of course, Anna Getzinger and Brad and Martha Merry, Merry Lumber Co., Augusta, Ga. we’d like to see Poplar lumber prices come up.” A buyer for a Hardwood flooring manufacturer told me that, in his opinion, the flooring market for his company was a seven. He explained, “Lumber prices seem like they stabilized last month. We’re selling a lot of Hardwood flooring, however, we’re not making any money.” Some interesting comments were made from an individual who worked for a Hardwood lumber company that has several sawmills in the Appalachian region. He mentioned that some of his firm’s mills were operating 50 hours a week a few weeks ago, but several are now operating only 30 hours a week because they are low on logs due to all the rain we’ve had in the Appalachian region recently. He said, “Overall, prices on Appalachian Hardwood lumber are stable, however, I do see an increase on prices for Northern Hardwood lumber because of the wet weather that has occurred up there. Furthermore, there’s a shortage of lumber in that area of the country; so I see lumber prices increasing in the northern region. In Please turn the page JULY/2011 33
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