CHB Continued from page
CHB Continued from page 38 creased emphasis on “Trades." The program includes a contract between the employer and apprentice and featured structured pay increases during Apprenticeship. The NHLA program is 2,000 hours and 300 of Relevant Technical Instruction, which includes 144 hours of classroom instruction. The program is currently registered in Tennessee and the paperwork is submitted in Pennsylvania. They expect to register in Michigan and Arkansas and other states as requested. Allison DeFord, executive director of the North American Forest Foundation (NAFF), addressed the meeting to spread the word about the Back to School with NAFF fundraiser. NAFF was working to raise the remaining amounts with their matching sponsor’s contributions in an effort to be able to educate 75,000 students about sustainable forestry. They have a keen interest to send education kits to schools in Canada. Chairman Rowe reported that since the Bureau’s very successful meeting back in May, it has been doing some training and held an English-language Hardwood grading short course in mid-May in Ontario. It was sold out with almost 30 people enrolled. The practical portion was to be held at Ontario Hardwood Products in Bolton. CHB held its first-ever French-language short course recently in Drummondville, QC, at Goodfellow Inc. Chairman Rowe spoke about the CHB’s successful Promotions Program, which aims at the great story of CHB, which resonates with consumers. The goal of the program is to tell the story of Canadian Hardwood as a beautiful, durable, and sustainable interior building material to as many consumers as possible. For a second straight year, CHB secured partial funding and directed efforts at export markets, specifically the U.S. designers and architects, who will promote the Bureau's story to homeowners and commercial end users. CHB is completing two years of webinars that have been included in educational events dealing with specifying wood products; commercial (retail, offices and mixed use), health- Cameron McRae, McRae Lumber Co. Ltd., Whitney, ON; Simon Larocque, NHLA, Montreal, QC; Greg Stascavage, Missouri Walnut LLC, Neosho, MO; and Benji Richards, NHLA, Lenoir, NC care; building green: products that support sustainable design; hospitality (hotel, restaurant etc.); education (school, college, university); interior finishes and commercial solutions; and institutional and government etc. Members asked about undertaking domestic promotion as well and that will be studied and brought back to the members at the next meeting in April. n Learn more at www.canadianhardwoodbureau.com. Tom Byers, NHLA, Tionesta, PA; Clayton Miller and Ian Rowe, Aurora Timberland/Alexandria Moulding Inc., Bradford, ON; and Shaun Rowe, Quality Hardwoods Ltd., Powassan, ON Alain Thibeault, Preverco Inc., Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, QC; Dallin Brooks, NHLA, Memphis, TN; Nico Poulos, Weston Premium Woods Inc., Brampton, ON; and Michael Brooks, Quality Hardwoods Ltd., Powassan, ON Have a Happy Holiday! We appreciate your patronage and thank you for your friendship. We We specialize specialize in in manufacturing manufacturing fine, fine, plain plain sawn sawn Walnut, Walnut, and and rift rift and and quartered quartered White White Oak. Oak. We We also also produce produce Red Red Oak Oak and and Soft Soft Maple Maple lumber, lumber, and, and, all all our our lumber lumber is is sawn sawn in in 4/4 4/4 through through 12/4 12/4 thicknesses, thicknesses, sold sold green green and and rough. rough. The The lengths lengths of of our our lumber lumber are are from from 6 6 feet feet up up to to 14 14 feet. feet. We We produce produce about about 5,000,000 3,000,000 board board feet feet of of lumber lumber a a year. year. To To better better serve serve you you we we also also have have modern modern sawmill sawmill equipment equipment such such as as a a McDonough McDonough 7-foot, 7-foot, 17 17 degree degree slant slant headrig, headrig, a a Cleereman Cleereman carriage carriage and and a a Pendu Pendu four four saw saw edger. edger. BUCKTHORN TEAM BUCKTHORN TEAM Call us at (641) 722-3348 when we can be of service! BERLIN TEAM BERLIN TEAM 42 CHRISTMAS 2023 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE RealAmericanHardwood.com/industry RealAmericanHardwood.com/industry CHRISTMAS 2023 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 43
