Price hikes

[JP1]

Raw materials in every sector seem to be facing global shortages with consequent price rises

I've heard Covid, Brexit and various embargoes with timber etc but it's across the board; sometimes even affecting material stocks at any price

Recently timber for our catwalks have jumped 40+% and nobody seems to blink with 10%'s and notice on future price reviews often weekly or monthly

Several steel frame companies will only quote "on the day" prices

Presumably at some point supplies will level out and there will be price stabilisation

 

[TechWise]

Price of steel seems to be going up and up all the time lately. In the electronics industy, there was a shortage of ceramic capacitors for a while, even though there's dozens of them in every piece of electronic equipment on earth. I think it's a symptom of miniscule margins and a "just in time" economy. Nobody holds anything in stock nowadays so the slightest blip in demand upsets the whole system. Not so long ago, a supplier here couldn't get hold of 6x2 timber. 6x2s? Seriously? You'd think something like that would be stocked by the thousand in every builder's merchant in the country.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Price of all metals is going up, and then some. I had to sort out a purchase order for some Inconel at the end of last week. The finance bod is going to want to sit down and take a few deep breaths when that particular PO pops up in front of him.

 

[JP1]

Price of steel seems to be going up and up all the time lately. In the electronics industy, there was a shortage of ceramic capacitors for a while, even though there's dozens of them in every piece of electronic equipment on earth. I think it's a symptom of miniscule margins and a "just in time" economy. Nobody holds anything in stock nowadays so the slightest blip in demand upsets the whole system. Not so long ago, a supplier here couldn't get hold of 6x2 timber. 6x2s? Seriously? You'd think something like that would be stocked by the thousand in every builder's merchant in the country.

The timber I was told was USA not taking Canadian and then depleting the Scandinavian stocks

 

[delilah]

Good. All virgin raw materials remain too cheap for as long as we fill our wheely bins and skips with them.

 

[Hilly]

Good. All virgin raw materials remain too cheap for as long as we fill our wheely bins and skips with them.

Best out it in the recycling bin then

 

[bobk]

Not surprising really , no one is going to keep producing when demand has been dead for 9 months .

Shame we can't get wood from here , plenty of trees when I drive around

 

[shumungus]

Not surprising really , no one is going to keep producing when demand has been dead for 9 months .

Shame we can't get wood from here , plenty of trees when I drive around

No demand for 9 months? Man I know is the biggest timber importer in Ireland North and South. Tells me he has never been busier than throughout lockdown busier even than the boom of 2006-2007. Construction end was still ticking away but the demand for fencing and decking was phenomenal due to people keeping busy making improvements and spending easy furlough cash.

 

[Hilly]

Plenty demand for lots of things more than ever

 

[delilah]

Best out it in the recycling bin then

These projects do fantastic work. Every town should have one, the reason they don't is that the economics are marginal at best. Despite everyone moaning at the price of a mixed waste skip, it is still too cheap for many individuals and businesses to be bothered with an alternative.

https://www.communitywoodrecycling.org.uk/

 

[Chae1]

RHI must consume a huge amount of timber. Heat being produced and doors open, using heat to dry newly chipped wood to then burn again. Heat to burn 25%Dm draff/cattle feed.

One of my friends drives a timber lorry. He's steady carting wood to biomass boilers.

 

[serf]

These RHI subs have altered the kilter on the timber job , like lot of these gov schemes they don't think of the consequences of them , and its sacrilege the heat that gets produced and wasted on these ash for cash schemes just to turn the meter.

 

[milkloss]

They’ve been chipping hellishly good chestnut in the south east........ to much hassle to turn it into fence posts apparently.