NAWLA Special Edition 2023

Hancock Lumber Launches

Hancock Lumber Launches New ProFinish Facility, Celebrates Its 175th Year of Business A Team Hancock employee busy at work at the Hancock ProFinish facility A team member performing a quality assurance check on finished HPF Pine boards Team Hancock members loading Pine boards for priming and finishing at Hancock ProFinish facility A PRIMARY PRODUCER OF PREMIUM PRODUCTS FROM LOG TO LUMBER Being in the lumber business since 1848 says more about Hancock Lumber’s commitment to the future than it does about the company’s past. Today Hancock Lumber is a seventh-generation, family-owned integrated forest products company that is passionate about its people-first and values driven culture. Led by over 700 employees, Hancock has been awarded ‘Best Place to Work in Maine’ annually since 2014 and this year the business is celebrating its 175th anniversary. Team Hancock operates high-efficiency sawmills, lumberyards, component manufacturing facilities, and full-service kitchen design showrooms. An integrated forest products company, Hancock grows Eastern White Pine trees across 7,500+ acres of sustainably managed timberlands, manufactures Eastern White Pine boards at its four mills, operates truss and wall panel manufacturing facilities, Supplying Building Materials to North America through Six Trusted Brands supplies building materials to professional contractors, remodelers, and homeowners, and has nine kitchen design showrooms throughout Maine and New Hampshire. Team Hancock’s four Eastern White Pine sawmills are focused on capital reinvestments and utilizing new technologies to advance the company’s offerings and manufacturing capabilities. One of these exciting additions is the Hancock ProFinish facility and products. After years of research, testing, and product development, Hancock Lumber’s brought the finishing process in-house at its new facility located on the Casco Sawmill campus. Team Hancock partnered with experts to source, install, and leverage state-of-the-art technology and cutting-edge science to create the right coating formulations for Eastern White Pine boards, made for both interior and exterior applications. Taking the process in-house is a long-term investment, but Hancock Lumber’s commitment to quality makes it the right decision for the company, its customers, and the environment. Not only does Hancock Lumber manufacture the Pine products, the company also stocks Hancock ProFinish products at its lumberyards across Maine and New Hampshire. “We are launching our new line of stained products which will also be stocked in our retail stores,” said Matt Duprey, Hancock Lumber Sawmill Chief Revenue Officer. “We branded it Hancock ProFinish (HPF) since that is exactly what it is—a group of our employees that take pride in providing our customers with a professional, high-quality coatings system that is used as exterior siding and trim, or interior trim and pattern stock. The most exciting part of this for me is that we are controlling our destiny and managing product quality at the source. During the pandemic we could not get our own product primed and to our stores due to using a third-party primer and labor issues. We lost opportunity and we were not able to keep our own stores stocked with product. Now we have total control of the quality, availability, and flexibility of what we can do with our product. The other exciting thing for us is we have been able to apply new technologically advanced coatings with no VOC’s and performance that is excellent. Our coatings have been through accelerated weather testing that proves out performance through time and different weather variabilities which gives us a high degree of confidence bringing our product to market.” To learn more about the HPF product line head to www.hancocklumber.com/ pre-finished-pine/ OR scan the QR code to virtually fly through the HPF facility and watch the process firsthand! Team Hancock hopes to be going strong for another 175 years and is incredibly proud of the company’s past, present, and future. Hancock Lumber celebrates how far it has come and is continuously adapting, evolving, and growing to continue to flourish in the future. Team Hancock added this statement: “Thank you to our employees, customers, vendor + industry partners and communities for being alongside of us since 1848.” To learn more about our company—the 71st oldest family businesses in America—visit www.hancocklumber.com. Please visit us at Booth #401 Partap Forest Products now operates both sawmilling and reman facilities to produce the highest quality Western Red Cedar and Pacific Hem-Fir products available. As a primary producer we control all aspects of production to ensure the highest value is extracted from log to lumber, producing more than 110 million board feet annually. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR FULL P: (604) 463-1525 PARTAP.CA RANGE OF PREMIUM PRODUCTS, CONTACT E: sales@partap.ca Page 46 ADVERTORIAL Wholesale/Wholesale Distributor Special Buying Issue