Since George Terbovich started Horizon Wood Products in 1975, the family-owned company has grown into its second generation in Elk County, Pennsylvania. It is known for studying each log individually and drawing out its distinctive character, a practice shaped by local forests and decades of sawmilling experience. The company’s EverGreen initiative, established in 2000, formalizes its care for the resource and the people connected to it.
Deer Park Lumber, IncFounded in 1982 by Ron Andrews in Tunkhannock, Deer Park Lumber is a second-generation, family-owned sawmill and forestry services company producing kiln-dried Northern Appalachian hardwood lumber. The company produces approximately 15 million board feet annually and serves domestic and international markets, while its forestry team helps landowners manage timber with long-term regeneration and conservation in mind. Deer Park also puts its sustainability principles into practice by heating its kilns with sawdust and finding uses for nearly all of its wood byproducts.TUNKHANNOCK, PA
JB Mill & Fabricating, IncFounded by Jeff Bloise in 1986 as a one-man pallet-and-crate shop, JB Mill & Fabricating now turns locally harvested timber into hardwood lumber, custom industrial wood products and landscape materials in western Pennsylvania. Still family-owned and operated, the company has grown to 35 acres and more than 100 employees, while its hardwood lumber supplies local furniture makers and its products reach customers across more than 20 states. Its foresters also work directly with landowners on customized timber-management plans, connecting forest stewardship with the mill’s production.NEW WILMINGTON, PA
Heacock LumberHeacock Lumber is a family sawmill dating to 1918 that produces rough-cut hardwood lumber and custom-saws logs at its Bucks County mill. The Hunsberger family has operated the sawmill since purchasing it in 1974, continuing a local tradition that includes making survey stakes and turning milling byproducts into mulch and firewood. Its timber work follows Sustainable Forestry Initiative of Pennsylvania practices, with an emphasis on long-term woodlot management rather than clearcutting.PLUMSTEADVILLE, PA
Hickman WoodsFor four generations, Hickman Woods has grown, milled, and crafted Northern Appalachian hardwood into flooring and lumber from its family-managed forests in western Pennsylvania. The family’s roots reach back to Harry Hickman’s logging work in the 1930s, while Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring, founded in 2000, became known for character-grade rift-and-quarter-sawn and live-sawn flooring. Hickman Woods also manages FSC-certified forests and maintains control of the process from timber selection through sawmilling, drying, and flooring production.EMLENTON, PA