For most of the year, makers of plywood and oriented strand board enjoyed an enormous surge in prices. Homebuilders bought as much paneling as they could find, as new home construction surged ...

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Do-it-yourselfers who walk into some building-supply stores this week will face paying more than $22 a sheet for 4-foot-by- 8-foot, half-inch-thick CDX plywood that until recently was $14 a sheet.

COL.MC Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI, S.A.