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Sawmill News

May 01 2021

Made In Maine: Logging Industry Interviews

A group standing on a bridge.

Team Hancock launched a new campaign earlier this year highlighting the current state of the logging industry. In a four part video series, New England loggers participated in interviews with Hancock Lumber, describing the concerns and opportunities experienced in the field. Beginning with the 2020 mill explosion in Jay, the videos then travel throughout Maine […]

Dec 23 2020

Hancock Lumber joins the American Tree Farm System

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All of Hancock’s privately owned land is open to the public for recreation Hancock Lumber recently announced that their Hancock Land division has rejoined the American Tree Farm System (ATFS). Hancock Land remains one of the largest landowners in Western Maine—with 12,200 acres owned across Bridgton, Naples, Casco, and Poland. Membership into the ATFS is an […]

Oct 21 2020

Leveraging Technology in Today’s Manufacturing World

Kevin Murphy

NEW TOOL: LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE A DIGITAL SALES AND PRODUCTION SCHEDULING SYSTEM Today, it takes approximately 14-days for eastern white pine trees to go from standing in the forest to being packaged eastern white pine boards on a truck. About 50% of Hancock Lumber’s markets receive their deliveries within 10-hours of their product being […]

Sep 03 2019

Bethel Mill Reinvestments Drive Customer and Employee Experiences

Autograder

Earlier this year, Hancock Lumber completed the installation of a new automatic grade scanning system at the Bethel sawmill. General Manager, Aaron Schulte, and his crew completed the massive capital project in typical Hancock Lumber fashion—a true team effort—finishing on schedule, and producing better results than predicted, for both employees and customers. After six months […]

Apr 02 2019

Hancock Lumber Modernizes Mill Yard Scanning Technology

Yard Pro Scanner

Like most Maine companies, Hancock Lumber knows how to stretch the life cycle of a technology product.  Since transitioning to MillTech Solutions inventory management software in 2008, the company has used the industrial handheld product that was available at the time: LXE MX-7 handhelds running the Windows CE operating system, with custom software developed by […]

Aug 24 2018

Log Procurement Team Welcomes Butch Barberi!

Butch Barberi

Butch Barberi joined Hancock lumber in July as the new Log Procurement Forester for the Pittsfield sawmill. Butch comes to Hancock Lumber with nearly 30 years of experience in the Forest Products industry, primarily in fiber procurement for a hardwood sawmill and large paper mills in Vermont and Maine.  He has held positions in forest […]

Jul 20 2018

Hancock Pittsfield Capital Improvement Project Enhances Employee Engagement

Rodney Trimmer

BEYOND THE PROFITS AND PAYBACK: HOW HANCOCK PITTSFIELD’S CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT ENHANCES EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT Rodney Williams, Sawmill Manager, experiences the upgrade first-hand on line Over the course of each year Hancock Lumber organizes a wish list of capital improvement projects across their entire business – from the retail lumberyard division to sawmill manufacturing, and now […]

Jul 02 2018

Manufacturing in Maine: the log to lumber journey at Hancock Lumber

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Click the player box above to take a video tour through Hancock Lumber’s eastern white pine manufacturing operation. Manufacturing in Maine: the log to lumber journey at Hancock Lumber While there’s no substitute for a live tour through our eastern white pine sawmills, Hancock Lumber is excited to share the next best thing–our new video […]

Dec 08 2017

SHARP Safety Certification: Hancock Sawmill Trifecta!

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SHARP Safety Certification: Hancock Sawmill Trifecta! All three of Hancock Lumber’s Eastern White Pine manufacturing facilities have earned certification into the United States Department of Labor’s (USDOL) Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP), with their Pittsfield mill most recently becoming SHARP certified . The USDOL recognizes small business employers who have used OSHA’s consultation program […]

Nov 09 2017

Recycling Energy and Creating Power at Hancock’s Bethel Sawmill!

steam turbine generator

Recycling Energy and Creating Power at Hancock’s Bethel Sawmill! Bethel, Maine— Over the past 10 years, Hancock Lumber has worked hard to successfully reduce its consumption of electricity by installing energy efficient LED lighting and high efficiency electrical motors. We are making more lumber than ever—however, we are using much less electricity to do it. As […]

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