Diorio Forest Products — specialty softwood wholesaler
Built on Service. Driven by Trust.
Markets change every day. DFP stays focused on the relationships, reliability, and follow-through that keep business moving.
Diorio Forest Products is a specialty lumber wholesaler and stocking distributor built for customers who need more than a price sheet. We bring together trusted sawmill relationships, experienced traders, product knowledge, and practical problem-solving to help customers source the right softwood products with confidence.
Whether the need is Southern Yellow Pine, Eastern White Pine, surfaced dimensional lumber, specialty timbers, or a custom-milled product, DFP works to make the process easier from the first call to the final delivery. We are big enough to get the product you need and personal enough to make sure the details matter.
Big enough to get you the product. Small enough to give you the attention.
What we trade
Softwood species
Every species has its own page: what we produce in it, where it grows, where it ships, who buys it, and what it can stand in for.
What we are known for
Eastern White Pine
Pinus strobus
The softest and most workable of the eastern pines. Appearance through industrial, boards through timbers, and the deepest book we trade.
Highest volume
Southern Yellow Pine
Pinus spp.
Rough green through custom precision milled, in the volume the market actually runs on.
Where we are growing
Ponderosa & West Coast Softwoods
Shop, moulding and dimension out of the western mills. The business we are building hardest.
Appearance
Western Red Cedar
Thuja plicata
Siding, paneling and pattern stock where cedar is the specification.
Alternative
Suki / Sugi
An alternative to the commodity species, and one of the most striking things we handle.
[ Spelling unconfirmed. The traded Japanese cedar is usually written Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica). Confirm with Dante before this page ships. ]
The rest of the book
Other North American Softwoods
Douglas Fir, Hemlock, SPF, ESLP and the alternates we trade inside the company, including euro spruce.
Supply
Relationships are the product
Our takeaway position with the mills is why we can still fill an order when a market goes short, and why those mills bring us their production first. That is not a claim about inventory. It is a claim about who picks up the phone.
What we produce
Every form it takes
Appearance through industrial, boards through timbers. All NELMA, SPIB and WWPA patterns, plus special milling to your specification.
Who buys it
Industries we supply
We sell to the companies who resell, remanufacture or build with it.
Industrial Lumber Solutions
Boards, decking, cants, timbers, dimension and panels for commercial, manufacturing, packaging, construction and specialty applications.
Log Home & Timber Frame Lumber
Boards, paneling, siding and timbers that bring warmth, character, strength and lasting performance to the finished structure.
Manufacturing Lumber Supply
Factory, shop, cut stock, furniture, turning square, panel and specialty production stock, chosen for yield and consistency.
Retail & Wholesale Distribution
Species, sizes, grades, patterns and milling options across the softwood book, with standing warehouse inventory behind it.
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 holding the inventory.
What we would like to be known for
Five things
Expertise
Decades of combined experience in buying and selling softwood, and traders who know their species rather than a catalogue.
Honesty
We will tell you when the answer is a different species, a different grade, or nothing at all.
Proven performance
Trading since 2006, through every market this industry has had since.
Knowing what you need
Customers come to us for one item and leave with the one that actually fits the job, the budget and the lead time.
Supplied and priced
Kept fully supplied and priced competitively, because our takeaway position with the mills is real.
Serving these areas
Where we trade from
Trading offices and strategic warehouses across the country, so there is quick access to standing inventory and to a diverse mix of suppliers. Tell us where you are and we will tell you what makes sense to land there.
Virginia
Corporate headquarters and the largest desk
New York
Northeast
Oregon
West Coast
Georgia
Southeast
Offices & warehouses
10 locations
Corporate headquarters
Ashland, VA
Strategic warehouse
Bangor, ME
Strategic warehouse
Bellows Falls, VT
Partnership & strategic warehouse
Cohutta, GA
Strategic warehouse
Fort Worth, TX
Trading office
Homer, NY
Strategic warehouse
Knoxville, TN
Trading office
Oregon City, OR
Strategic warehouse
Richmond, VA
Strategic warehouse
Sanford, ME
All 10 named, read off the map embeds on Diorio’s own locations page. Click the map to zoom with the wheel.
Corporate headquarters: 11129 Air Park Rd, Ashland, VA 23005.
Start a conversation
Tell us where you are
Geography drives the recommendation. There are regions where a species is the obvious answer and regions where it is the wrong call, and we will say so.