Our Hancock Lumber Augusta location was recently awarded the 2024 Large Business of the Year by the Kennebec Valley Chamber! The Augusta team accepted the award in January at the Chamber’s largest event of the year—The Kenney Awards—in front of over 900 members of the community. We are honored to be recognized as the Kennebec […]
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Internal Advancements Create Landscape for Promotions and Career Growth
As part of our company realignment in late 2024, Mike Shane earned a promotion from Casco Mill GM—a role he held for 24 years—to the newly created position of Regional General Manager of White Pine Manufacturing. In this new role, Mike oversees all eastern white pine operations across our Bethel, Casco, and Pittsfield mills with each […]
Team Hancock Honors Jeff Hall’s Legacy with a Snowmobile Trip & Huber Products Tour in Northern Maine
In late January, over 15 Team Hancock members from our lumberyards and sawmills ventured to Millinocket, ME to take part in remembering one of Hancock’s long-time employees, Jeff Hall. Jeff lost his courageous battle with cancer at the end of 2024. This trip was two days of nothing but smiles, snowmobiles, learning about our Maine […]
Team Hancock Announces 2024 Employees of the Year!
We are always in the business of celebrating our own people! Every year Team Hancock recognizes an Employee of the Year per Hancock location, and we are excited to announce the 2024 recipients. Congratulations to all of those being recognized for their hard work, loyalty, positive attitudes and commitment to our company culture and customers! […]
Kicking Off 2025 with Hancock Lumber’s Leadership Summit
Hancock Lumber Hosts 43 Company Leaders For 2-Day Leadership Summit Early in January Hancock Lumber President + CEO Paul Wainman and Managing Owner + Chairman Kevin Hancock hosted 43 Team Hancock leaders for a companywide leadership summit. Managers from across locations and departments convened for two days to deepen team connections, strengthen company alignment, celebrate […]
Tiny Homes of Maine Continues Increasing Production with Hancock Lumber
At the beginning of January, Corey, one of our Yarmouth Driver Pros, made the trek up Interstate 95 to make a special delivery to our Tiny Homes of Maine facility in Dyer Brook. Among the many products included on this delivery was Hancock Pre-Finished Pine made at our Casco Mill and stained at our Hancock […]
Hancock Lumber’s Bethel Mill Hosts Total Production Maintenance (TPM) Training Event
In the fall of 2024, our Bethel Eastern White Pine (EWP) Mill hosted a two-day Total Production Maintenance (TPM) training event with 17 Team Hancock members traveling from all three of our mills including Casco and Pittsfield. TPM training focuses on maximizing the productivity of equipment for its entire lifespan. TPM fosters an environment where […]
Celebrating Our Partners in Building and their Craftsmanship!
What an incredible year of building 2024 has been! As the year winds down, we wanted to pull together some of our building partners’ projects that we’ve captured or have had shared with us and say a big THANK YOU to all our loyal builders. From new homes, kitchens, remodels, commercial structures, and more, there […]
Holiday Health Tips & Checklist from Hancock’s HR Team
Team Hancock’s HR Specialist, Hannah Goriss, has been on a roll sharing benefit spotlights with our employees in 2024. She recently created and shared her most recent benefit spotlight on Holiday Health Tips & Checklist, and we wanted to share it beyond our employee audience. Take a few minutes to read through the info below […]
Honoring Eddie Cox’s Incredible Legacy with Hancock Lumber
Eddie Cox, long time Commodity Buyer for Team Hancock will be celebrating his retirement at the end of 2024, marking the end of his 14-year career with Hancock Lumber. Eddie joined us in November of 2010 as a Product Category Manager after a previous 21-year career with Roper Bros Lumber Company. Eddie has always been […]