View as Webpage

April 2022

National Lumber's Monthly Customer Newsletter

Expert Knowledge and Project Management

National Millwork Commercial Division is an important part of the National Lumber Family of Companies, focusing on providing the expert knowledge and project management to work with you on every type of commercial project from small space fit-out to large multi-family projects, laboratory fit-outs, schools, public work such as police stations, and more.

National Millwork's Commercial Division consists of knowledgeable Project Team members from the Estimating Phase through Project Punch.

The Commercial Team strives to be a leader in providing the New England building industry with service and solutions for needs of DIV 6, DIV 8, DIV 10. Not only do we offer a variety of doors and hardware, but we also provide trim and specialty accessories needed on most commercial projects. Below you can learn more about our featured product line from DE LA FONTAINE.

Featured Product - DE LA FONTAINE

DE LA FONTAINE INDUSTRIES offers a complete line of high quality hollow metal doors and frames built with galvannealed steel or stainless steel. Our company expertise and reputation for reliability is based on more than 50 years of experience in the steel door and steel frame industry.

Meet the Designers - Welcome Daniel & Colby

Daniel Keirstead - Outside Sales

East Hartford

A lifelong woodworker, Dan has an extensive background in building and design. Growing up in New Haven, Connecticut in the shadow of Yale University afforded Dan exposure to a wide variety of architectural styles from a young age.

For the past 20 years he has done everything from antique building restoration and yacht interiors to commercial millwork and residential cabinetry in New York City and Fairfield County.

Colby Secl - Outside Sales

East Hartford

Experience matters and when looking for a kitchen designer an individual with knowledge of multiple underlying disciplines brings a unique perspective to home design. In addition to being a kitchen designer, Colby has an exceptionally unique background that includes engineering and design experience that spans the fields of fire protection, CAD drafting for heating elements, engineering consulting for electrical, natural gas and plumbing on renovations for well-known buildings and also new construction.

Kitchen Views is in the process of updating several showrooms with vignettes of new cabinetry lines such as Kith Cabinetry in Mansfield, UltraCraft Full Access and Merillat vignettes in Berlin, and more to be announced soon in East Hartford and Oxford.

We're also happy to announce that Cambria will be opening a new 32,000 sq. ft. quartz surface manufacturing facility with showroom in Milford, MA by the end of this month. You can stop by any of our eight showrooms and schedule your appointment to view the entire selection of Cambria Quartz Stone.

LBM Market Update

By Marc Osborne, VP Purchasing

Lumber and panel prices have started to drop at the mill level, but other building products continue to post increases. The one constant is transportation woes. Trucks continue to be weeks late in picking up loads throughout the country. Railcars have suddenly become abundant in the South but are still scarce in Canada and the US West. This led Canfor to reduce operating schedules for at least four weeks at their Canadian mills because they have run out of room to store sold orders. These shipping delays mean that it will take some time for the lower prices to have an effect at the retail level. But the trend in commodity lumber is down. Plywood and OSB, more resistant to market forces over the last few months, are also headed down.

We're Hiring!

We are always looking for great employees to add to the National Lumber Family of Companies! We have many career opportunities available. Don't just find a job, discover a career!

Send your resume to jobs@national-lumber.com today!

Let Us Help You Maximize Profits

Whether you work with National Lumber in MA, National Building Products in RI or CT, or Oxford Lumber in CT, it is the same Family of Companies, with all the benefits of experts in engineering, framing, take-offs, precise deliveries of drywall with boom trucks up to 90', installed insulation, custom millwork, and much more.

Learn more about how you can maximize your profits by purchasing all your building materials with us and utilizing our professional services.

Call Dean Wagar, Senior VP Sales, at (508) 962-5412

You are receiving this email because we have your email address connected with your customer account.

If you want to unsubscribe please use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this message.