Silvaris

10/23/2026

At Silvaris, we move A LOT of plywood, and here's the question plywood buyers often ask us: should I get Industrial or Premier?

The answer depends on what the panel has to do:

🦺 Industrial Grade is sorted for function. Sheets may show delamination, broken edges or blows, which doesn't matter when the wood is going to be a cushion block for pile driving, a pallet top or a crate. Heavy civil contractors and crating shops buy it for exactly that reason.

💄 Premier Grade is sorted for appearance. Every sheet has four good corners, four good edges and one good face, which makes it a natural fit for retailers with DIY customers, along with pallet builders and logistics operations that want a cleaner panel.

Note: both grades are for nonstructural use only. The comparison below breaks down which one fits your business.

DM us or call (888) 856-6677 to talk to a trader about our Industrial and Premier inventory.

10/22/2026

Texas, meet your new traders. 🤠

Hit play for the video tour Eric Miller, our CEO, shot on his last visit.

For more than 25 years, Silvaris has turned B-Grade building materials and surplus retail inventory into opportunity, moving it by the truckload and railcar across North America. Now we’ve planted a flag in one of the fastest-growing markets in the country: our Cedar Park office is officially open.

Cedar Park sits just north of Austin, with US 183, I-35 and MoPac running right past us. That puts our traders in the heart of the state, a short drive from Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, with our Temple yard an hour up the road holding inventory close to the customers who need it.

“Austin is a city on the rise, in a state that keeps growing. We’re near a university full of talented people ready to start a lasting career, and Texas has a deep bench of veterans who’d make outstanding traders. I want this office to launch the next generation of Silvaris.” —Eric Miller, CEO

And yes, we’re hiring. If you’re hungry, competitive and want to learn liquidation trading from people who’ve built a business on core values, we want to hear from you. DM us for more info.

10/22/2026

We sell liquidation building materials and retail inventory by the truckload, but did you know we have our own in-house logistics department?

Here's how it works and why it matters 👇🏼

Once a carrier receives a rate confirmation, our in-house Silvaris Complete Logistics team owns the shipment through to delivery. On pickup day, every scheduled load gets an automated check at 1 PM PST asking the carrier to confirm it’s loaded and rolling; if the carrier doesn’t answer, we follow up within 24 hours.

While the truck is on the road, the team watches for delays or routing changes that could move your delivery window. And if something goes wrong (a driver who can’t find your warehouse, for instance), you hear it from us firsthand.

You have one point of contact the whole way: someone who knows where your load is, with no game of telephone between you and the answer.

Read the full walkthrough of what happens between “confirmed” and “delivered” on our blog post, "From Confirmed to Delivered: What Happens After Your Order Ships."

https://silvaris.com/once-an-order-is-confirmed/

Discover what happens after your order ships, from pickup confirmation to delivery day, and how Silvaris keeps shipments on track.

10/21/2026

If you work with a broker, you know how it goes: you can’t reach the carrier and nobody tells you the driver backed out until the delivery day.

That’s where Silvaris Complete Logistics comes in. There’s no broker in the middle. We check in on every load, call the carrier directly when things go quiet and you always have a direct line to us.

Recent win: when new tariffs hit with almost no notice, our team stopped every truck at the border within the hour, so the surprise cost never landed on a customer’s invoice. 🚛

Questions about how this could work for your business? Comment below or send us a DM.

10/16/2026

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10/15/2026

“Cross-border orders don’t faze us because we’ve been doing this so long.”

That matter-of-fact sentence comes from today’s blog post, where we talk about how our in-house Silvaris Complete Logistics team works through all kinds of unexpected scenarios.

Some are routine, like a carrier who goes quiet on delivery day and gets a call from our team to check status. Others come with little warning, like the new tariffs earlier this year, when the team stopped all trucks at the border within the hour so an unexpected cost never reached a customer’s invoice.

Read "What Happens When a Load Doesn’t Show Up on Time: and How We Prevent it": https://silvaris.com/silvaris-complete-logistics/

Then reach out if you want to learn more about how we help customers move inventory across North America.

Learn how Silvaris Complete Logistics prevents freight delays through proactive carrier communication, load tracking, and direct customer support. customer support.

10/14/2026

Just the level of shock we were hoping for 🥰😭🥹🥳🙂‍↔️

10/14/2026

We believe a good supplier relationship is built by partnering with our clients and understanding their business well enough to help them solve problems. Our new cases study pages prove that good partnerships can help grow your business: https://silvaris.com/case-studies/

Amy Hammonds works with a Georgia supplier who now takes a carefully monitored inventory of porcelain tiles each month—so they're not sitting on excess inventory—which gives their customers a lower-cost alternative.

Teresa Resendiz works with a buyer in Juárez Mexico who used to wait 3-4 days on pricing and now gets faster quotes—with volume that has grown to 3 to 4 truckloads a month across lumber, plywood, OSB and siding—and better deals for their customers.

And in Philadelphia, the owner of Whitman Kitchens already knew Silvaris from her father’s building materials company, which has worked with us since 2013. So when a customer on a kitchen project asked for hardwood flooring—which sits outside what Whitman sources—she knew where to turn. Leigh Drewry sourced gorgeous unfinished white oak with a phone call and a quick turnaround, at roughly $10 less per square foot than competing market pricing.

Each one started with a trader who learned what their customer needs. Read their case studies here: https://silvaris.com/case-studies/

Then reach out to hear how we can help you grow your business too.

See how Silvaris helps customers solve sourcing challenges, find building materials and grow their businesses through lasting partnerships.

10/12/2026

Here’s a tip we share with plywood buyers: start with the job, then pick the grade.

We sell B-Grade plywood to B2B buyers by the semi-truckload, and so far we’ve shipped more than 1.2 billion square feet of it.

Each grade fits a different kind of project. Industrial Grade works for pallet tops and crating. Shop Grade suits crate walls and the backs of furniture, and about 80% of it is usable.

Utility/Mill Certified is a good pick when you need clean, accurate cuts and can live with small flaws inside the panel. D-Grade covers budget jobs like shelving and sheets that protect the ground under heavy equipment.

Not sure which grade—or which type within a grade—fits what you’re building? DM us to talk to a trader. 📞

10/08/2026

Lots of companies have core value statements. How many have them on every office wall and on every desk?

At Silvaris, our mission, vision and core values aren’t just ethereal statements. They show up in practical ways: when we listen to what a customer is building, stay on top of the market for them and creatively find new uses for inventory, like discontinued flooring that keeps a hotel renovation on budget or downfall lumber that becomes pallets and crates.

Our latest blog post, “The Values Behind the Way We Do Business” shows what that looks like after more than 25 years in the biz.

Read more via silvaris.com/blog (🔗in bio)