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Where can I get information on the wood floor market?
Z.W. of China writes:
We are insterested wood floor's market price in USA. Could you please send us some information about this problem?

Dave Damery answers:
I am not sure which aspect of the wood floor market you are interested in. The largest market share for wood flooring is taken by oak strips (primarily red oak, but also white oak) these are moulded into 3/4" x 2-1/4" strips in random lengths to 10 ft or so. Wholesale prices are regularly reported in the hardwood market report which publishes a weekly listing of prices for various regions in the United States. You can contact Hardwood Market Report at: tel. (901)767-9126, email: hmr@hmr.com, website: www.hmr.com Another source of flooring pricing is the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Assn. Memphis, TN Tel. (901)526-5016, FAX (901)526-7022 I hope this helps.

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Concerns on makreting recycled forest products
W. G. writes:
What do you think is the best way to market recycled building materials that could substitute for plywood?

Dave Damery answers:
Its difficult to answer your question without some more detail. My suggestions will vary based on the quantities and qualities of the material that is recycled. If it is salvaged/recycled lumber here are a couple of interesting web sites you might check out. One is a listing of suppliers of salvaged/recycled materials the second is a homepage for a Canadian retailer who specializes in salvaged/recycled building materials. http://www.ran.org/ran/ran_campaigns/wood_con/
wood_sources.html#salvage http://www.happyharry.com/companyinfo.html If you are looking for ways to market a small quantity of material (from a small demolition job, for example.) I might suggest contacting your local lumber and building materials dealer and asking the sales personnel which contractors in the area are particularly environmentally oriented. There is a definite niche market of consumers and contractors who are willing to pay the (usually) higher cost of building with "green" or recycled materials. Hope this helps.

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What is the price and availability of white spruce and yellow birch?
Tyler writes:
I'm doing a project on Forest Products. I have choosen to research White Spruce and Yellow Birch, and I was wondering if you would be able to tell me the price per board foott, and the accessibility of these two trees.

Dave Damery answers:
There are many different prices for wood. Are you looking for log prices that a forest owner might look to receive upon selling a stand of living trees for harvest? Are you looking for wholesale prices for lumber that has been processed and dried? Or are you looking for specific products that a retail store might carry and the costs that a consumer may pay? Typically, general wholesale prices for hardwoods like yellow birch are published by the Hardwood Market report http://www.hmr.com. Wholesale prices for softwood lumber products, which white spruce would be used in the fabrication of framing lumber, are published by Random Lengths of Eugene, Or http://www.randomlengths.com As far as availablility goes. I know that yellow birch is widely available on the East Coast. White Spruce is often lumped together with red, black, and Engelmann spruce. As a lumber grade it is referred to as SPF (Spruce-pine-fir) in framing lumber. I know that it grows extensively in Maine and my guess is that its range is quite extensive. Hope this helps.

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