Prices are on a tear for those bonded wood-chip sheets commonly used as sheathing for walls, floors and roofs in new home construction. Oriented Strand Board, or OSB, has long been used as a low-cost ...

Plywood used to be king for wall sheathing and flooring material, but oriented strand board (OSB), introduced in the late 70s, is now the most popular. But both have their advantages and ...

Scotiabank reports in its monthly Commodity Price Index that prices for OSB, which has replaced plywood in most North American housing applications, surged in February to $430 US a thousand square ...

OSB soared to a record $729 per thousand square feet in September and held that level through mid-October while southern pine plywood prices plunged in the past month, according to lumber pricing ...

U.S. military demand for plywood for its operations in Iraq has helped push prices for some building products to record highs in recent weeks.

Ainsworth Lumber Co. announced Friday it reached agreement to settle a class-action suit that alleges price-fixing by some of the nation's major oriented strand board manufacturers.

The price of a formerly cheap plywood substitute called oriented strand board has surged 97% since the start of the year. The rally in OSB is due in part to the storm in Texas, which caused a ...

OSB soared to a record $729 per thousand square feet in September and held that level through mid-October, while southern pine plywood prices plunged in the past month, according to lumber pricing ...

OSB soared to a record $729 per thousand square feet in September and held that level through mid-October while southern pine plywood prices plunged in the past month, according to lumber pricing ...