A New Innovative Trimboard for the Canadian Siding Market

Discover its embossed woodgrain pattern, and smooth finish on the reverse

CanWel is pleased to introduce Natural Elements Ultra-Light Exterior Trim as a new finishing option for your siding projects. Made from solid wood these boards are extremely lightweight & easy-to-handle.

• Less costly than cedar, fiber cement or composite alternatives

• Comes prefinished in black and white, also available in primed (3 coats of Sherwin-Williams)

• Naturally resistant to rot and decay

• Naturally resistant to warping, splitting and end checking

• Naturally free of knots and voids

• Finger-jointed, kiln dried to 8-12% moisture level

• Reversible - Embossed Woodgrain & Smooth

• Works well with any cladding system

• 15-Year Limited warranty against wood decay

Top 20 banner groups 2022 retail sales ($millions)

Market share of Top 20 Retail Groups

20. WINDSOR PLYWOOD

HQ: Langley, B.C.

2022 RETAIL SALES: $343 million

STORES: 52 (in Canada)

One of the distinctively different home improvement retail chains in Canada, Windsor Plywood is as much about plywood as Canadian Tire is about tires. (That is, it’s an important category but there’s so much more.)

Windsor Plywood specializes in hardto-find specialty woods as well as building supplies in general. It’s the only Canadian retailer on this list that has ventured south of the border to open U.S. stores—four in Washington state and one in Montana.

Windsor founder Randle Jones was a student at the University of Victoria when he met one of the owners of Stewart & Hudson

Lumber Co., in 1952. He had gone to the yard to sell them an ad in the student union publication. He went to work for them and later bought the company, opening his first

Windsor Plywood-bannered outlet in 1969 in Surrey, B.C. Windsor Plywood is, with a few exceptions, owned and operated by independent dealers on a franchise basis.