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Eastern Softwoods

Eastern White Pine

Pinus strobus

Eastern White Pine is the softest and most workable of the eastern pines, and it is the product Diorio Forest Products is known for. Creamy white through pale straw, straight and even grained, low in resin, and about as dimensionally stable as a softwood gets. It machines without tearout, nails without splitting, glues cleanly, and takes paint and stain more evenly than almost anything else on the rack.

It grows in one part of the world — the northeastern United States and eastern Canada — which is exactly why it rewards a trader with real mill relationships. The supply is finite. When it tightens, the people who get it are the ones the mills want to sell to.

We buy it green, air dried and kiln dried. We have it milled to NELMA, SPIB and WWPA patterns, or to whatever pattern you send us. And we move it in the quantity your business actually runs on, from a few units of specialty timbers to full truckloads of boards.

Big enough to get you the product. Small enough to give you the attention.

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Supply

A finite species, and the relationships to get it

White pine does not come from everywhere. Our takeaway position with the mills that cut it is the reason we can still fill an order when the market is short — and the reason those mills bring us their production first.

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What we produce

Every form it takes

Appearance through industrial, boards through timbers.

01Boards
02S4S
03Paneling
04Shiplap
05Tongue & groove
06Timbers
07Log siding
08Chink siding
09Bevel siding
10Board decking
11Pallet & box
12Industrial
Specifications

Sizes, milling and grades

All NELMA, SPIB and WWPA patterns, plus special milling. Other grades available to match your specification.

Paneling & Siding

Appearance

Sizes & milling
1x4 – 1x12. All NELMA, SPIB & WWPA patterns. Special milling available.
Grades
C-Select · D-Select · D & Better · Premium · Standard

Boards & Decking

Appearance

Sizes & milling
1x4 – 1x12, 2x4 – 2x12, plus custom sizes. Rough & S4S; green, air dried, kiln dried.
Grades
All NELMA, SPIB and WWPA grades

Industrial Boards

Non-appearance

Sizes & milling
4/4 – 8/4 x 4–12". Rough & S4S; green, air dried, kiln dried.
Grades
Industrial Eastern White Pine

Cants & Timbers

Structural profile

Sizes & milling
4x4 – 16x16"; 3.5x4–12"; 5.5x4–12". Rough & S4S.
Grades
Selected Log Run

Timbers — Log Home

Appearance

Sizes & milling
4x4 – 16x16", lengths 8–32'. Rough & S4S; green, air dried, kiln dried (18–20% @ 2").
Grades
Selected Log Run

Cut Stock

Remanufacture

Sizes & milling
4/4 – 8/4 x 4–12". Rough, S2S, S4S.
Grades
#1–3 Shop · #1–3 Molding · FJ · Selected Log Run · Shop Outs

Furniture & Turning Squares

Remanufacture

Sizes & milling
3x3 – 4x4". Rough; kiln dried.
Grades
Furniture grade
Where it grows

The northeastern range

From the Great Lakes through New England and into the Maritimes. One region, which is what makes the supply finite.

  • Maine
  • New Hampshire
  • Vermont
  • New York
  • Pennsylvania
  • Massachusetts
  • Connecticut
  • West Virginia
  • Michigan
  • Wisconsin
  • Minnesota
  • Ontario
  • Quebec
  • New Brunswick
  • Nova Scotia
Needs Dante Where it ships

Where we move it

We deliver across the country from trading offices and strategic warehouses. Tell us where you are and we will tell you what makes sense to land there.

[ Primary lanes and regions — confirm with Dante ]

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Geography drives the recommendation. There are regions where white pine is the obvious answer and regions where it is the wrong call, and we will say so.
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Built on trust

We know what you need before you do

Customers call us for one item and leave with the one that actually fits the job, the budget and the lead time. Knowing the alternative is worth more than having the inventory.

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Who buys it

Industries and applications

We sell to the companies who resell, remanufacture or build with it.

Alternatives & substitution

When white pine is the answer, and when it is not

Most of our value shows up here.

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Substitutes for

Western Red Cedar

In interior paneling and paint-grade siding, white pine holds pattern and finish at a materially different cost. Not a swap where unfinished exterior exposure is the point.

Substitutes for

Ponderosa & Sugar Pine

Shop and moulding stock is the cleanest crossover. Similar working properties, and when the West Coast shop market tightens this is where buyers land.

Substitutes for

Poplar & Soft Hardwoods

Paint-grade millwork and trim. Lighter, more stable, and it machines with less tearout.

Substitutes for

SPF & Hemlock

Appearance boards where the face matters. A better-looking board off the same rack space.

Do not substitute

Ground contact & structural spans

White pine is not a treated or structural product. If the application is load-bearing or in the dirt, we will move you to the right species instead of selling you the wrong one.

Ask us about

Non-traditional uses

Some of the best volume we move is white pine landing somewhere nobody expected. If you have a spec and no obvious species, start here.

Numbers needed from Dante
2006Year founded
[ — ]Full-time traders
[ — ]Truckloads in 2025
[ — ]Combined years in white pine

We are a wholesale trading company, trader owned and operated. Expertise, honesty, and a record you can check — that is what we would like to be known for.

Dante Diorio
Owner & President

The rest of what we trade

Softwood species

White pine is where we are strongest. It is not all we do.

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Tell us what you buy

The more you tell us, the faster a trader comes back with something useful.

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