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Boise Cascade Company

Publicly traded · NYSE: BCC

Boise Cascade runs two businesses that feed each other: Wood Products, which manufactures plywood, engineered wood products and lumber, and Building Materials Distribution, one of the largest wholesale distributors of building products in the United States. It owns essentially no timberland and buys the logs its mills run on.

Ownership
Publicly traded
Listed as
NYSE: BCC
Headquarters
Boise, Idaho
People
About 7,660 as of 15 February 2026
www.bc.com (opens in a new tab)See the BCC quote

Does it buy timber from private landowners?

Yes - this company buys wood from outside its own ownership.

Its own 10-K puts a number on it: approximately 88% of its log supply in 2025 came from purchases from private landowners or through dealers. The rest comes from public auctions run by federal, state and local authorities, generally at fixed prices under contracts of one to three years.

This is a company-level answer taken from what the company itself publishes. Every mill sets its own specifications, haul radius and gate price, and any of them can stop buying without notice. Confirm with the mill before you put a crew on the ground — and for a real number on a real tract, let buyers bid against each other.

What it makes and sells

  • Plywood and veneer
  • Engineered wood products (I-joists, LVL)
  • Lumber
  • Wholesale building materials distribution

In the U.S. South

Plywood operations in Louisiana, including the Oakdale and Florien plants, sit in the Southern pine basket.

Find the mills in your county in the state agency directories.

Worth knowing

  • Of the companies on this page, Boise Cascade is the clearest published statement that a public mill company's supply comes off private ground: 88% of it, from landowners and dealers.

Where these facts came from

Checked against these documents on 14 August 2026. AXE USA has no relationship with Boise Cascade: nobody paid to be listed, this profile is not a recommendation, and nothing here is investment advice. If a fact disagrees with the company itself, the company is right.

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  • Louisiana-Pacific

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