Under the Hood of Our Steam Turbine: How Power is Made
It’s often said that many people don’t know what it takes to make the food that ends up in...
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Market Report: Housing Starts and the Engineered Wood Market
It has been largely anticipated that housing starts would weaken significantly as interest rates increased. This prediction, which is...
Mass Ply Panels Shape the Near-Complete PDX Airport Roof
Four hundred thousand square feet of our Mass Ply Panels (MPP) were used on the nine-acre mass timber roof...
February Market Update: Surge in Commodity Lumber and Panel Prices
The last four weeks have been solid for western plywood sales. We’ve sold over production each week. Prices during...
Jobs in the Santiam Canyon: Why Work at Freres?
Like many other employers, we have struggled to recruit, hire and retain employees — which is essential to the...
Market Report: Mass Ply Market Robust, Plywood Improves
The Mass Ply facility is booked for the next several months at our current production levels. This is extremely...
The Labor Shortage and a Freres Solution
Labor shortages have been acute since COVID, and have directly affected two essential metrics for a manufacturing facility like...
New Year, New Trucks and Better Tech
2022 brought the end of COVID-19 restrictions to our personal liberties and allowed our lives to return to a...
January Market Update: Sales Volumes Increase
Western Plywood markets have shown some life this past week, resulting in the best weekly sales volume we’ve seen...
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