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The company believes its future is bright because of the dedication and commitment of its employees, the demand for quality lumber products, its close proximity to efficient shipping routes, and its location right in the middle of a rich source for raw material.

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Duckback Products was founded over 30 years ago by a handful of people with a simple idea: formulate a superior exterior stain that would both beautify and protect wood decks, siding, fences, and other outdoor investments. These "Ducks," as they called themselves, were committed to making extremely high quality coatings that would protect wood from harsh ultraviolet rays and shed rainfall like water off a duck's back.

The Ducks shunned the stability that established businesses could provide, preferring the risk of a start-up that would allow them to create a culture founded on innovative thinking and the freedom to create new. unique products in a staid industry.

Spearheading the business with next-to-no funding and used equipment from a defunct paint company. the Ducks relied on their passion to create excellent products that would perform well in all of the varied climactic regions of their native California. From the deep snow and below-freezing temperatures of the Tahoe/Donner basin, through the wet and foggy coast lands of Northern California, to the hot and arid desert lands of Palm Springs, Duckback

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Forest2Market has built a comprehensive set of products and services that provide market price and key market performance metrics for the wholesale lumber market, including weekly market analysis and quarterly mill benchmarking reports.

With Mill2Market. Forest2Market has taken a fundamentally different approach to delivering the market metrics the lumber industry needs. Customers use Mill2Market to better understand their market position, to make better-informed decisions, and to measure the effects of those decisions on performance.

With accurate market analysis, users can:

. make better-informed production and sales resource allocation stains were designed to perform in every climate and the company's success relied on this feature.

Year after year, the products proved their performance on multimillion dollar wood-sided homes and decks. Word of this performance spread quickly, and the Ducks knew they were on to something.

As the company's reputation grew, so did the company, all the while maintaining its passion for excellent products and customer service. Several of the original employees still work at Duckback and continue to refer to themselves as Ducks. This group acknowledges that the varied climates of California and the strict regulatory climate that they operate in is what truly prepared them for their expansion to the rest of the country and Canada. decisions,

Today, Duckback manufactures more than 25 unique coatings and surface prep products. The company continues with its culture of innovation, creativity, and excellence of both products and service. Whatever your outdoor coatings needs are, Duckback has the quality products to meet and exceed them.

. assess performance against the broader market. improve net sales realizations,

. and base purchase and sales negotiations on value, not price.

Correcting the deficiencies of survey-based price reports, Mill2Market delivers over 1,500 lumber market performance indicators : volume weighted average prices price variation (price spread that accounts for volume) full and split week volume and price trend indicators

. by grade and length (including MSR & mixed loads): dimensioned lumber , decking, and timbers

Forest2Market is committed to delivering the most accurate, credible, and quantitative market insight to our lumber industry customers. The company is laser-focused on maintaining customers' confidence in our results, because it collects lOUVo of actual transactions from IOOVo of its participants, subjects all data submissions to periodic audit, and maintains customer confidentiality at all times. Results are available to participants only, who must supply transaction data to receive the reports.