PLC Loggers Voice Summer 2017

PLC Supporting Member Spotlight:
BURNHAM, ME – Only one place in the world
manufactures Lincoln Logs for children today, and it is
right here in Maine.
The place is the Pride Manufacturing Co. LLC
facility on Route 100, where Pride – a
global American corporation
headquartered in Tennessee –
manufactures tens of millions of Lincoln
Logs, golf tees, and cigar tips each year
and employs 140 workers.
That kind of employment and
economic impact is a huge benefit to
Maine, but for Maine loggers the bigger
benefit is Pride’s demand for timber, as
its production lines in Burnham consume
8.5 million board feet of wood each year.
Scott Taylor, wood purchaser for Pride,
said the company depends on good
relationships and communication with Maine loggers to get
the quality, types and size logs it needs to keep production
Pride depends on experienced
employees and advanced technology
to achieve its production speed and
product quality.
going. Joining the Professional Logging Contractors of
Maine as a Supporting Member in 2016 was one way Pride
sought to support those loggers and an organization
fighting for them and the forest economy in the state.
“We need to support the loggers
to get the logs to the mill,” Taylor said.
“There’s all sorts of associations out
there, but you’ve got to pick the ones that
are going to help you the most and have
the most impact.”
Pride started in Tampa, Florida
in 1930 as a manufacturer of wooden
cigar tips. It expanded over the years,
and by 1956 the company moved to
Maine to get closer to the white birch
trees used to make the cigar tips. The
clear white wood from the birches went
into cigar tips leaving the red or “heart
wood” available for other uses, which Pride soon utilized
for golf tees. As time went on Pride expanded into other
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