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Sawmill News

Mar 13 2022

Logging + Landowner Resources

Logging Job Site

Certified Master Loggers Certified Master Loggers are held to exemplary standards of responsible timber harvesting. Click the link below to view the most up to date Certified Master loggers list and map. State Specific Resources MAINE INFO CONTRACTORS/SUPPLIERS Maine Best Management Practices Manual LANDOWNERS/FORESTERS Maine Best Management Practices Manual Find a Logger in Maine Maine Natural […]

Written by Erin Plummer · Categorized: Sawmill News · Tagged: Certified Master Logger, Eastern White Pine, forest management, Logging Contractor Resources, Maine, Maine Logging, Massachusetts Logging, New Hampshire Logging, Timberland Owners Associations, Vermont Logging

Jan 27 2022

Looking to Sell Logs?

Sell Logs Brochure Photo

LOOKING TO SELL LOGS? Across our three sawmills in Bethel, Casco, and Pittsfield, Maine, Hancock Lumber is a consistent buyer of eastern white pine logs year-round. MAINE’S SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE. Since 1848, Hancock Lumber company has been growing and manufacturing eastern white pine logs into pine boards. Team Hancock takes pride in sourcing raw materials […]

Written by Kelcey Liimatta · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News · Tagged: Butch Barberi, Eastern White Pine, Jeff Hall, John Randall, Log Buying, Log Procurement, Log Procurement Team, Ray Crockett, Rocky Manzer

Jan 03 2022

Russell Coulter Retires After 36-Year Hancock Career!

Russell, Carol Hancock, and Kevin Hancock

After an incredible and transformative 36-year career at Hancock Lumber, sawmill veteran, Russell Coulter, retired on 12/30/21. Kevin Hancock recognized Russell at our December Board of Directors meeting at the Home Office in Casco. “Russell has lived through and done everything there is to do at Hancock Lumber—he’s been a manager, an executive, the equivalent […]

Written by Erin Plummer · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News · Tagged: Culture, Employee Engagement, Retirement Celebration, Russell Coulter, Sawmill Veteran Retires

Sep 29 2021

Bright Wood Visits and Tours Hancock Lumber Operations

Bright Wood team visit

Last month Hancock’s sawmill team hosted our Oregon customer, Bright Wood—and, wow, was it great to have customers back in Maine! Sawmill team members Aaron Schulte, Matt Duprey, and Jack Bowen welcomed members of the Bright Wood team to the Pine Tree state to tour our Bethel and Casco eastern white pine manufacturing facilities. Dallas, […]

Written by Erin Plummer · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News · Tagged: Bright Wood, Customer Visit, partnership, Relationship Building, Sawmill Visit

Aug 23 2021

Casco Sawmill Underway with Six Major Capital Projects

Casco campus aerial

Capital project planning and reinvestments are a normal part of any given year at Hancock Lumber. Typically, each manufacturing facility will take on at least one major capital project, but for Team Hancock’s Casco sawmill 2021 is a year of six major reinvestments! General Manager, Mike Shane, is up for the challenge of managing these […]

Written by Erin Plummer · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News · Tagged: Capital Projects, Casco Sawmill, new office, new sawmill carriage, turbine

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 […]

Written by Kelcey Liimatta · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News · Tagged: Eastern White Pine, Eastern White Pine Manufacturing, Loggers, Logging Community, logging industry, Maine Loggers, New England Loggers, sawmills

Dec 23 2020

Hancock Lumber joins the American Tree Farm System

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 […]

Written by Kelcey Liimatta · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News · Tagged: ATFS, Casco, community, Eastern White Pine, Forests, Hancock Eastern White Pine, Hancock Lumber, Hancock Lumber Company, Maine, Sustainability, Team Hancock

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 […]

Written by Erin Plummer · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News · Tagged: Auto Grade Scanner, Eastern White Pine Manufacturing, FileMaker, FileMaker FileMaker Pro application, IT, Kevin Murphy, Leveraging Technology, Sawmill Division, Scheduling app, Technology in Manufacturing

Sep 03 2019

Bethel Mill Reinvestments Drive Customer and Employee Experiences

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 […]

Written by ssczurko · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News

Apr 02 2019

Hancock Lumber Modernizes Mill Yard Scanning Technology

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 […]

Written by Erin Plummer · Categorized: Culture, Sawmill News · Tagged: FileMaker FileMaker Pro application, Kevin Murphy, modern technology, technology integration, technology products, technology tools, workplace innovation

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