Corporate Information
Welcome to the Britton Lumber Company, Inc. website. We are a forest products and building materials business, founded in 1946 and comprised of two divisions, both located in Fairlee, Vermont.
- The company was founded in 1946 in Hartland, Vermont.
- Operated both portable and stationary sawmills out of several locations including Hartland, Norwich, West Fairlee & Ely, Vermont in the 1940's through the 1960's.
- We have been in our current location in Fairlee since 1971.
- Our corporate structure includes two divisions: wholesale & manufacturing.
- We have approximately sixty employees company wide.
- Started in the early 1970's selling lumber and building materials to retailers in Vermont and New Hampshire.
- We currently serve over two hundred retail customers in five northeast states.
- In 2004, 60% of our sales were out of our warehouse and 40% were direct shipments.
- We have a fleet of eight tractor trailers to support our customer's warehouse needs.
- We offer a wide variety of lumber, roofing and other building material products.
- Sawmill production is approximately 10 million board feet of Eastern White Pine (medium size mill by New England standards for Pine mills). The planermill processes 11 million board feet a year.
- All production is sawn into 1" boards, graded rough, kiln dried, planed & graded again to Northeastern Lumber Manufacturer ' s Association specifications.
- Markets for our lumber include, retailers in New England, and wholesalers and secondary manufacturers throughout the country. Around 50% of our production goes outside New England.
- Products and uses include siding, paneling, shelving, trim, millwork, furniture, crafts, sheathing & crating.
- By-products from our manufacturing operation include bark (landscaping), chips (pulp & paper mills), sawdust (boiler fuel & cattle bedding) & shavings (horse & cattle bedding)
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