The Softwood Forest Products Buyer - March/April 2023

RETAIL REVIEW Continued from page 16
stores in Whitinsville, Uxbridge and North Grafton, one lumber, hardware, paint
and kitchen design center in Sharon, a full-service paint store in Milford, lumber
yards and kitchen design centers in Hudson, Andover Fairhaven and Indian Orchard
and distribution centers in Uxbridge and Sutton.
Koopman Lumber keeps a variety of species in stock at their lumber yards every
day, including Clear Pine, poplar and oak. They also have professionals who
deal exclusively with trim related projects including, baseboard, casing and crown
moulding.
For more information, visit www.koopmanlumber.com.
Beacon Expands In Texas
Herndon, VA – Beacon, located here, continues its strong expansion run in
Texas. The company has announced that its latest moves include the opening of
greenfield locations in Baytown and suburban Fort Worth. The Baytown branch
extends service in the greater Houston market, reaching across Harris and Chambers
counties and the Galveston Bay region.
So far this year Beacon has already added five new locations via greenfields
and acquisitions as part of its Ambition 2025 strategy. This year they have also
reported acquiring the Boston-based Whitney Building Products and First Coastal
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Exteriors with locations in AL and MS. A new branch will also be opened the first
quarter of 2023 in Augusta, GA.
For more information, visit www.becn.com.
Floor RONA & Decor Opens Announces Two New Stores The Opening In Southwest Of Its Ontario Surprise,
Arizona Boucherville, Store Quebec – RONA plans to renovate and offer lumber and building
Atlanta, materials GA at – two Floor hardware & Decor, stores located in Comber here, expanded Tilbury its in nationwide Southwest footprint Ontario.
with RONA the opening Tilbury of will its put newest together location a new in outdoor Surprise, lumber AZ. This yard is that the company’s will also serve
the sixth RONA warehouse Comber store store. in AZ RONA and it offers opened Spruce, with a Spruce-Pine-Fir, team of about 50 Cedar, full and White part
Pine, time associates oak and maple to work in a in variety the warehouse of grades and and the thicknesses, design center. as well as moulding
and Floor millwork. & Decor offers a variety of flooring including solid and unfinished hardwood
RONA floors Tilbury as well will as undergo wood countertops. major renovations, They offer adding these the in white 45,000 and square-feet red oak,
for hickory, the lumber maple, yard. acacia, RONA ash, walnut, Comber birch, will be mahogany able to better and hevea. assist their customers
with Founded home improvement in 2000, the Atlanta-based and construction Floor projects & Decor with has the become RONA a Tilbury leading lumber highgrowth
just specialty a few miles retailer away. of hard-surface flooring. They operate 178 warehouse-
yard
format Both stores the RONA and five Tilbury design and studios RONA across Comber 35 states, stores have as of served the fourth their quarter communities
2022. since The 1988, company offering directly a plethora sources of products from for home manufacturers improvement around projects. the
of
globe, RONA enabling Inc., one their of customers Canada’s leading to have home access improvement to the best and retailers, most innovative has a
network flooring trends. that operates or services some 450 corporate and affiliated dealer stores.
With For their more long information and rich history, visit, www.flooranddecor.com.
they have supported Canadians in their home
improvement and construction projects since 1939.
Kodiak For Adds more information, A Diamond visit To www.ronainc.ca. Its Roster
Highlands Ranch, CO – Ko-
Kodiak Building Adds Partners, A Diamond located
here, To Its announced Rostertheir acquisition
of Highlands Diamond Home Ranch, Improvement CO – Kodiak
Building DHI was Partners, a locally located owned
(DHI).
and here, operated announced home-improvement
their acquisition
retailer of Diamond headquartered Home Improvement in Southern
Oregon (DHI). DHI with was locations a locally in Klamath owned
Falls and operated and Grants home-improvement
Pass.
retailer The acquisition headquartered has allowed in Southern
Kodiak Oregon to with expand locations its market in Klamath reach
in Falls the and Northwest. Grants Pass. This includes
providing The acquisition lumber, has moulding allowed and
millwork, Kodiak to doors expand and its windows, market reach
building in the Northwest. materials, This quality includes tools
and providing more materials lumber, moulding brought to and the
market millwork, through doors a and strong windows, ecosystem
building of partners materials, and quality vendors tools in the
surrounding and more materials areas. brought to the
market Kodiak through Building a strong Partners ecosystem was
founded of partners in and 2011 vendors and is based in the in surrounding
Over areas. the past 11 years the
CO.
company Kodiak has Building grown Partners to more was than
100 founded locations in 2011 operating and is based in more in
than CO. Over 20 states. the past The 11 pro-dealer years the
and company building has materials grown to distributor more than
serves 100 locations general operating contractors, in more homebuilders,
than 20 states. sub-contractors, The pro-dealer remodelers
and building and DIY materials customers. distributor
serves For more general information, contractors, visit homebuilders,
sub-contractors, remodel-
www.kodiakbp.com.
ers and DIY customers.
Specialty For more information, Building visit
Products www.kodiakbp.com. Buying
Amerhart
Duluth, GA - Specialty Building
Products, located here, has
agreed to acquire the Midwest regional
building material distributor
Amerhart.
Founded in 1940, Amerhart
is a third-generation family-run
distributor of building materials
serving customers from 10 locations
in WI, IL, KS, MI, MN and
MO. Following the acquisition
Amerhart will maintain its current
brand name, geographic locations,
management team and team
members.
Among the many products
that Amerhart offers some are dimensional lumber, lumber studs, treated lumber,
boards SLB and Column laminated columns, —Continued as well as lath, from shims page 36 and furring strips. They offer
these products in Cedar, Douglas Fir, Englemann-Spruce-Lodgepole-Pine, Fir,
Pine, board, Southern translating Yellow to cost Pine, and Spruce-Pine-Fir, carbon savings, maple, and enhances oak and wood’s poplar. value proposition
Specialty in the seven- Building to 12-story Products' segment. other operating brands also include U.S. Lumber,
Alexandria The SLB Moulding, also continues DW to Distribution, foster more Millwork opportunity Sales for and materials Reeb. industry collaboration
For more in information, hybrid construction visit www.specialtybuildingproducts.com. with its ongoing, two-year research project, n
“The Future Potential of Steel-Timber Hybrid Buildings,” led by CTBUH and cosponsored
by the SLB and the World Steel Association’s constructsteel program.
This research explores ways that the two materials can be used together to make
a bigger collective sustainable impact, and as part of this partnership, CTBUH is
working to conduct full life cycle and cost-assessment analyses and elaborate the
full potential for high-rise timber-steel hybrid structures in advance of producing
a peer-reviewed technical guide by June 2023. The guide is expected to serve as
a precedent-setting reference to support the development of future timber-steel
hybrid buildings.
A new New York City every month is a daunting goal. But by leveraging
wood’s ability to offset the impact of less sustainable building materials in hybrid
systems, there is great opportunity to build to newer—and renewable—heights. n
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After a very short drop in lumber
production in keeping with COVID
restrictions, U.S. producers focused
on increasing production and
supplying surging U.S. demand.
Although international demand
was also high, record high container
rates and U.S. lumber prices,
coupled with port slowdowns
affected U.S. suppliers’ ability to
compete in international markets
– nor were most interested. Fast
forward to February 2023 and the
U.S. market is again slowing as the
lending rate surpasses 7.7 percent,
2022 inflation is at 7.7 percent over
this time last year, and housing
affordability is at the lowest level
since 1989.
While U.S. demand during the
COVID years was unprecedented,
international diversification is vital
to long term stability for U.S. lumber
manufacturers. Market fluctuations
are a constant, and the importance
of international markets
was clearly evident when the 2007
global recession hit. In 2007, U.S.
forest products exports reached
$5.2 billion - $698 million of
which was Softwood lumber. U.S.
Softwood lumber exports continued
to increase in subsequent years
while domestic lumber consumption
declined 33 percent. Although
exports account for a small share
of U.S. lumber production, for the
hundreds of small, often family-
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Source: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service,
December 2022
owned lumber mills and wholesalers across the country, exports meant they could
continue to operate in the black, retain employees, and outlast the downturn.
Exports are also important for large corporate lumber producers who must find
new markets for large volumes of lumber coming online. This means creating
new international markets – both geographically, and in terms of developing new
innovative ways to expand consumption.
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