National Hardwood Magazine - July 2014

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338 St. Paul St. N.E. Orangeburg, S.C. 29116 Tel: (803) 531-1887 FAX: (803) 533-0195 Russell and Leonard Blanchard, Ed Holley, Jim Shepherd & David Turner Phone: 888-525-1690 Fax: 865-525-0090 E-mail: sales@southernpneumatics.com NORTHEAST continued from page 45 market conditions are “about the same.” “There still seems to be a supply issue. I think the Red Oak supply is the biggest issue right now. From what I am hearing China is waiting on that species to drop in pricing. All of the other species seem to be available.” Marketing Red and White Oak, Hard and Soft Maple and Cherry the contact said, “Ash, White Oak and Hickory are all doing very well in all grades. The hottest item is the 4/4 Red Oak FAS No. 1 Common.” When asked about inventory he said, “Log inventory is high and lumber inventory is low, lumber on sticks is also high. Kilndried lumber inventory is particularly low. I think Cherry and Ash are up some and the others have been holding steady. Transportation is an issue. We’ve had orders that are sitting here because we can’t find a truck.” As for the remainder of the year he said, “It’s anybody’s guess to how strong the market is going to be. Our customers seem stable and everybody is positive.” ■ ONTARIO continued from page 8 Canadian technology rather than looking to foreign manufacturers. The report notes that the federal government needs to provide more worker training, and to finance marketing campaigns to help sell these new high-tech Canadian products to more customers. “Canadian wood transformers heavily rely on foreignmade equipment, even in those fields where Canada seems to have equivalent equipment,” says the study. Canadian forest equipment manufacturers are competing against world giants in spite of their relatively smaller size. Jobs in high-tech, innovation and development are going to other countries, such as Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria and the U.S. There are an estimated 365 Canadian firms in the forestry-equipment manufacturing sector, employing more than 57,000 people and worth about a billion dollars annually. “One of the Canadian anchor forest industries, the sawmill equipment manufacturers, finds itself in a dire situation, as their traditional customers, sawmills, do not seem capable of investing and upgrading their assets,” says the document. A reason cited is the fact that lenders were recently hurt by the sector, thus making commercial credit harder to obtain. The authors suggest Ottawa should help these struggling manufacturers get better access to bank credit. A spokesman for the department says officials are still reviewing the findings. The forest sector in Canada saw net operational losses in 2008 and 2009, and still has not recovered to pre-recession levels. Quebec alone has seen the loss of some 30,000 jobs since 2008. The 2014 federal budget earmarked million over four years to help forestry companies become more efficient and environmentally responsible, and to develop new products. ■ 56 JULY 2014 ■ NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE

NEWS DEVELOPMETS continued from page 11 Mannington Mills, Salem, NJ; and Past Chairman John Lessick, Apex Wood Floors, Downers Grove, IL. Directors include: Craig Dupra, Installers Warehouse, Rochester, NY; Kevin Murphy, Trinity Hardwood Distributors Inc., Austin, TX; Joe Rocco, Artistic Floors by Design Inc., Parker, CO; John Wooten, CMH Space Flooring Products Inc., Wadesboro, NC; Julie Russell, Giltsa, a Division of Rudd Company, Seattle, WA; and Scott Sandlin, Shaw Industries Inc., Dalton, GA. Ex-Officio Directors are: Brenda Cashion, Pinnacle Interior Elements Inc., Carrollton, TX; Jim Gould, Floor Covering Institute, St. Louis, MO; Avi Hadad, Avi’s Hardwood Floors Inc., El Sobrante, CA; Keith Long, Thunderheart Flooring LLC, Greeley, CO; and Jon Smith, Smith Flooring Inc., Mountain View, MO. The National Wood Flooring Association is a not-for-profit trade organization with more than 2,700 members worldwide, dedicated to educating consumers, architects, designers, specifiers and builders in the uses and benefits of wood flooring. NWFA members receive the best in educational training, benefits, technical resources and networking, to advance their professionalism and success. For more information visit www.nwfa.org. FURNITURE PLANT EXPANDS IN MISSISSIPPI Furniture manufacturer Southern Motion, located in Pontotoc, MS, recently announced a 90,000-square-foot addition to its manufacturing complex. This expansion will provide added production and warehouse space for the fall sales season, according to Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, G. Lipscomb. “The company has just completed the best quarter in our history,” Lipscomb commented. “We are not seeing any let up at all in our backlog, which tells us that our sales and marketing plan is resonating with our retailers and their customers alike.” ■ HMA UPDATE continued from page 14 a topic that will soon be presented to our membership. Bottom line: Sharing information with our members is standard operating procedure at the HMA. When the valuable expertise of others is offered and shared with me, I pass it forward - to our HMA member companies and their employees, to industry colleagues and associates, and sometimes even to my family and personal friends. After all, the goal is for everyone to be as successful as possible, right? ■ nationalhardwoodmag.com MANUFACTURER OF QUALITY BAND SAWN NORTHERN APPALACHIAN HARDWOODS RED OAK WHITE OAK CHERRY SOFT MAPLE POPLAR WHITE ASH HARD MAPLE WALNUT 500,000 B.F. Dry Kiln Capacity 2 Million B.F. Dry Storage Container Loading Mixed TL’s S2S, Ripped to Width, Cut-Length & Finger-Joint Lumber Measured & Inspected after Kiln Drying 2240 Shermans Valley Road, Elliottsburg, PA 17024 Phone: 717-582-4122 Fax: 717-582-7438 Toll Free: 1-800-253-0263 E-mail: sales@tuscarorahardwoods.com Website: tuscarorahardwoods.com LUMBER FOR SALE Harold White Lumber, Inc. 2920 Flemingsburg Road • Morehead, KY 40351 Phone (606) 784-7573 • Fax (606) 784-2624 Email: mwhite@haroldwhitelumber.com JULY 2014 ■ NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 57