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The Central Committee on Lumber Standards was started in 1922 by Herbert Hoover when he was U.S. Secretary of Commerce at the request of the lumber industry. [4] Chaired by John W. Blodgett, the Central Committee was intended to be a way to create voluntary lumber standards without imposing formal government regulations, in order to solve the problem of lumber manufacturers selling lumber that ...
Graf Bros produces 125,000 board feet (290 m 3) of lumber and 35,000 square feet (3,300 m 2) of flooring per day. [1] The company maintains 2.5 million board foot (5,900 m 3) of logs, 5 million board foot (12,000 m 3) of lumber and 750,000 square feet (70,000 m 2) of flooring in inventory, including stocks at four West Coast warehouses.
The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈ w ɛər h aʊ z ə r / WAIR-how-zər) is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres (19,400 sq mi; 50,000 km 2) of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres (22,000 sq mi; 57,000 km 2) of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. [4]
Lumber’s price drop has been particularly dramatic in just the last 90 days in the futures market, with contract prices for July falling 28% to $466 per thousand board feet (futures prices are ...
Lumber prices. Presently there is a healthy lumber economy in the United States, directly employing about 500,000 people in three industries: Logging, Sawmill, and Panel. [62] Annual production in the U.S. is more than 30 billion board feet making the U.S. the largest producer and consumer of lumber. [62]
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The Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company (C&TL&F) was formed to move lumber from trees growing along the shore of Lake Tahoe to the silver mines of the Comstock Lode. Between 1872 and 1898 C&TL&F transferred 750 million board foot of lumber logged from 80,000 acres (32,000 ha) of virgin timberland.
Lumber Liquidators is an American retailer of hard-surface flooring including hardwood, laminate, vinyl plank, tile, bamboo and cork, as well as flooring tools and accessories. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 11, 2024, [ 3 ] and was able to avoid liquidation 3 months later after a last minute deal to be acquired by ...