Leading player supplies a comprehensive range of North American and Tropical hardwoods
Baillie Lumber is one of North America's largest hardwood lumber manufacturers, distributors and exporters. Founded in 1923, the company has grown from a regional supplier of North American hardwoods to an international hardwood manufacturer that can ship hardwood lumber to any region of the world. Today, Baillie is a leading provider of hardwood logs, hardwood lumber and proprietary grade hardwood lumber products with hardwood manufacturing facilities that are spread north to south in the eastern United States. The company owns and operates several sawmills and concentration yards, which are conveniently located near the principal North American shipping routes and seaports. In addition, Baillie also maintains relationships with several partner mills and suppliers in the U.S. and internationally, which supplement its own hardwood manufacturing capabilities thereby giving the company a breadth of specie availability unmatched by other hardwood manufacturers.
Participating in all of the major markets around the world and serving customers in various countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Baillie is able to offer customers a range of North American and Tropical hardwoods. 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. In addition, the company has established relationships with local and regional importers and agents, which have been driven by its sales representatives, some of whom have over 25 years of experience in the industry. Timber Design & Technology takes a closer look at Baillie Lumber.
Baillie solutions
As one of North America's premier hardwood lumber suppliers, Baillie is a full-service lumber supplier involved in manufacturing, distribution, importing and exporting of hardwood logs, lumber or lumber products.
Aiming to offer value-added services, the company provides customers not only with the lumber strips they require sorted by length, width, grade or color but also the option to rip and surface lumber and strips to their exact specifications. In addition, Baillie Lumber's 'Custom Lumber Solutions' program is a no obligation review of a customers' existing production process. The company utilizes a 5-step evaluation process designed to create a unique and customized lumber solution to meet the customers' specific production needs.
Hardwood Lumber and Logs
Baillie is able to supply both domestic species from the forests across the U.S. in addition to all the major species from Africa, Asia and South America. The company has an international procurement team that has expertise in locating and selecting the best hardwoods from around the world, which are then available for shipment directly from their country of origin, or through Baillie's U.S. manufacturing and distribution locations.
Baillie also purchases hardwood veneer logs and saw logs from loggers and landowners. The company has developed lumber and log markets throughout the United States and is able to offer loggers and landowners the best possible price for their logs.
Why Baillie?
As one of America's premier hardwood lumber companies, Baillie aims to provide hardwood lumber 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 Baillie's hardwood forests, sustainable forest management has resulted in nearly twice as much new hardwood growth than is removed through harvesting. Baillie's commitment to sustainable forest management also means that harvest levels should not exceed what the forest grows and should not degrade future growth capability. Each of its sawmill locations has a Certified Forester® as part of its staff who is board certified by the Society of American Foresters. In addition, much of Baillie's lumber comes from the Appalachian Hardwood Forest, a region that the U.S.
Forest Service has verified as benefiting from sustainable forest management. Baillie also actively supports many state and national forestry trade associations, forestry groups, colleges and universities, and forest landowner groups dedicated to the advancement of sustainable forest management.
Baillie in the Middle East
Baillie Lumber has been active in the MENA marketplace since the 1980's.
Since first entering the region with sales to Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, the company has expanded its operations to virtually all countries. Confident of the demand in the region, the company is actively looking for ways to serve existing and new potential customers in the region through their existing sales teams.
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