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The main species that the company currently supplies includes white oak, red oak, hard maple, soft maple, walnut, cherry, ash, poplar, African mahogany, genuine mahogany, and sapele solutions that help its customers’ business succeed. The company is able to offer special width, length, color or grade sorts; tailored delivery schedules; and volumes of hardwood lumber in standard grades. The objective is to provide solutions that target two goals: increasing yields and decreasing costs for customers.
Environmental Credentials Baillie Lumber is FSC Certified. Moreover, Baillie conducts its business in accordance with sound environmental practices that emphasize sustainable forest management. Currently, Baillie and its partners rely primarily on private landowners who own 57 percent of the timberland in the United States to supply its facilities with raw materials. Most of these lands are intensively managed by professional foresters who practice sustainable forest management. As such, in all of Image © Baillie Lumber
Baillie’s hardwood forests, sustainable forest management has resulted in
across the U.S. in addition to all the
nearly twice as much new hardwood
major species from Africa, Asia and
growth than is removed through
South America. The company has an
harvesting.
international procurement team that
Baillie’s commitment to sustainable
has expertise in locating and selecting
forest management also means that
the best hardwoods from around
harvest levels should not exceed
the world, which are then available
what the forest grows and should
width, grade or color but also the
for shipment directly from their
not degrade future growth capability.
option to rip and surface lumber and
country of origin, or through Baillie’s
Each of its sawmill locations has a
strips to their exact specifications.
U.S. manufacturing and distribution
Certified Forester® as part of its staff
In addition, Baillie Lumber’s ‘Custom
locations. Baillie also purchases
who is board certified by the Society
Lumber Solutions’ program is a no
hardwood veneer logs and saw logs
of American Foresters. In addition,
obligation review of a customers’
from loggers and landowners. The
much of Baillie’s lumber comes
existing production process. The
company has developed lumber and
from the Appalachian Hardwood
company utilizes a 5-step evaluation
log markets throughout the United
Forest, a region that the U.S. Forest
process designed to create a unique
States and is able to offer loggers and
Service has verified as benefiting
and customized lumber solution
landowners the best possible price for
from sustainable forest management.
to meet the customers’ specific
their logs.
Baillie also actively supports many
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production needs.
Hardwood Lumber and Logs
Why Baillie?
state and national forestry trade associations, forestry groups, colleges
As one of America’s premier
and universities, and forest landowner
Baillie is able to supply both
hardwood lumber companies, Baillie
groups dedicated to the advancement
domestic species from the forests
aims to provide hardwood lumber
of sustainable forest management.
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