May 7, 2025 | DHL Monthly Newsletter, Doing Business, Lumber, Press
This past week, I had the pleasure of attending a roundtable with the leadership of ten lumber yards around the country in beautiful Natchitoches, Louisiana – the oldest settlement west of the Mississippi! A headline topic was, unsurprisingly, tariffs....
Oct 15, 2021 | Building Practices, DHL Monthly Newsletter, Doing Business, Lumber
ACM Acquisition – Iconic Architectural Supply Company Now Part of Davis-Hawn Family Though Davis-Hawn has been in business since 1923, we were basically starting over in 1999 as the “little guy” in town when I naively bought the business from Wirt Davis. ...
Jul 17, 2018 | Cost of Doing Business, Lumber
Record Run for lumber pricing appears to have peaked and is beginning to recede. Mill lead times are still long and transportation from mills remains challenging, so coupled with continued high demand, some experts have predicted that pricing may stair step down...
Jul 14, 2017 | DHL Monthly Newsletter, Lumber
The US-Canadian Softwood Lumber Agreement hit another milestone as the Department of Commerce levied two (2) duties (CVD & Anti-Dumping) against Canadian mills. The CVD will ended up averaging 20% but due to “critical circumstances” these duties will also be...
Mar 22, 2016 | Cost of Doing Business, Lumber, Pressure Treated Lumber
Billy Joel, Queen, David Bowie or UC4A? When the term Pressure Treated Lumber comes to mind I think of the chemical iterations this product has endured over the years. Remember the CCA Formula that contained Arsenic? The very mention of the word “Arsenic” sent Soccer...
Mar 12, 2015 | Green Building, Lumber
My Dad used to race street cars growing up in Wichita Falls, Texas in the 1950’s. Of course, he never told me about it until he thought I had outgrown my hot-rod days (guess he hasn’t seen me running late to a meeting!). He tells me that you never knew what a guy had...
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