North American OSB Prices Continue To Decrease
North American OSB prices have fallen again in the first four months of this year.
The price for the benchmark grade OSB North Central 7/16”, researched weekly by the US information service Random Lengths, has almost consistently declined since December 2014. The price had at best stayed at the previous week’s level. No mark-ups occurred throughout this entire period.
The benchmark price had receded below US$200/1,000 sqft FOB for the first time in a while in January. It had reached US$180 at the end of March. This price had been left untouched for the following three weeks before softening again to US$175 in mid-April – the lowest level since July 2011.
This price was 19.7 % lower than the price of US$218 that applied at the end of April 2014.