Panel output improves in step with housing; shipment records set by U.S. particleboard and MDF mills; OSB claims larger market share as structural panel producers witness an upturn
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The US wood panel industry increased production figures significantly in 1992 over previous year production figures. Structural panel production reached approximately 26 billion ft, an increase of 7% over 1991 production figures. Particleboard production reached 3.9 billion ft, an increase of 5.5% over 1991 production figures. Finally, medium-density fiberboard reached approximately 1.1 billion ft, an increase of 11% from 1991.
Publication Name: Wood Technology
Subject: Forest products industry
ISSN: 1067-1064
Year: 1993
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Will housing demand outrun log supplies?
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Demand for lumber may soon outstrip supply, as housing starts and remodeling both rebound from the recession. The result is expected to be increased prices. Composite lumber prices, already at record highs, rose $30 per 1,000 bd ft in the first two weeks of 1993. Wood-products firms are forecasting profits as high as 40% for 1993. However, smaller companies without adequate supplies will not share equally in the profits.
Publication Name: Wood Technology
Subject: Forest products industry
ISSN: 1067-1064
Year: 1993
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Wood prices rising higher, higher, higher
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Demand for lumber is very high and inventories are low, causing prices to skyrocket. Random Lengths' Feb 19, 1993, framing-lumber composite price had jumped 15%, to $494 per 1000 bd-ft, in two weeks. That price is 51% higher than the year-ago composite price. The newsletter's Feb 19 structural-panel composite price was $422 per 1000 sq ft, 32% higher than the year-ago price.
Publication Name: Wood Technology
Subject: Forest products industry
ISSN: 1067-1064
Year: 1993
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