OCTOBER 2020
Cover: Rex Lumber Puts Troy Mill On The Map
TROY, Alabama – Rex Lumber is pushing hard toward production capacity at its new southern yellow pine sawmill here. Given the amazing hike in lumber prices over the summer, the mill is finding its footing at the right time.
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing
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Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) and Hatton-Brown Publishers, Inc. announce a collaboration on a sawmill conference to be held in conjunction with the Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition scheduled August 11-13, 2021 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference portion of EXPO will take place August 11-12.
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Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Timber Processing
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WASHINGTON, Georgia – Since taking the sawmill reins from their late grandfather – Mr. Addison Burt – Barry and Burt Goolsby have been on a continuous journey of improvement and automation throughout their southern pine operation. Having worked alongside Mr. Burt in the mill since their early teenage years, they had firsthand experience to support their vision for where to take the mill.
Article and photos supplied by Timber Automation as approved by Burt Lumber
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Rex Lumber Puts Troy Mill On The Map
Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing
TROY, Alabama – Rex Lumber is pushing hard toward production capacity at its new southern yellow pine sawmill here. Given the amazing hike in lumber prices over the summer, the mill is finding its footing at the right time.
General Manager Jason Gulledge will be the first to tell you the mill has another 20% or so to go, and they’ve encountered a few hurdles along the way, but nobody seems to be complaining. Troy is Rex Lumber’s (and the McRae family’s) fourth sawmill, in addition to SYP mills at Graceville and Bristol, Florida and Brookhaven, Mississippi. Once Troy reaches its goal of 300MMBF annual production, Rex Lumber will be flirting with 1 billion BF of combined annual output.
Rex Lumber has always been recognized for its modern sawmills and regularly upgrading them with the newest technology. It has also specialized in tearing down old mills and building new ones on site, but management felt the time was right for a greenfield sawmill.
“Build new and do it the way we wanted,” Gulledge comments, adding that management started kicking it around even before the last presidential election and gave serious consideration to locating in Arkansas.
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