Getting Up To Speed

摘要

TROY, Ala.Rex Lumber is pushing hard toward production capacity at its new southern yellow pine sawmill here. Given the amazing hike in lumber prices over the summer, the mill is finding its footing at the right time.General Manager Jason Gulledge will be the first to tell you the mill has another 20% or so to go, and they've encountered a few hurdles along the way, but nobody seems to be complaining.Troy is Rex Lumber's (and the McRae family's) fourth sawmill, in addition to SYP mills at Graceville and Bristol, Fla. and Brookhaven, Miss. Once Troy reaches its goal of 300MMBF annual production, Rex Lumber will be flirting with 1 billion BF of combined annual output.Rex Lumber has always been recognized for its modern sawmills and regularly upgrading them with the newest technology. It has also specialized in tearing down old mills and building new ones on site, but management felt the time was right for a greenfield sawmill. "Build new and do it the way we wanted," Gulledge comments, adding that management started kicking it around even before the last presidential election and gave serious consideration to locating in Arkansas.