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Trex Company, Inc. is a manufacturer of wood-alternative composite decking, railing, and other outdoor items made from recycled materials. [6] Headquartered in Winchester, Virginia, Trex is the world's largest manufacturer of wood-alternative decking and railing. [7] Trex composite products are made of 95% recycled materials.
A lounge chair using reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lumber is processed wood retrieved from its original application for purposes of subsequent use. Most reclaimed lumber comes from timbers and decking rescued from old barns, factories and warehouses, although some companies use wood from less traditional structures such as boxcars, coal mines and wine barrels.
Goodwin Heart Pine has gained national recognition by providing the wood used for The National Wood Flooring Association's Floor of the Year in the following years: 1997, 1999, [ 4 ] 2000, 2002, [ 5 ] 2009, [ 6 ] 2010: [ 7 ] Floor of the Year, National Wood Flooring Association designed by DM Hardwood Designs.
Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States. [1] A privately held company, it was co-founded in 1949 by R. H. Emmerson and his son, A. A. "Red" Emmerson, the long-term CEO, and A. A. Emmerson's sons George and Mark are now president and CEO.
Demolishers pulling timber from an old wool store in Sydney, which will later be re-used for timber flooring. Timber recycling or wood recycling is the process of turning waste timber into usable products. Recycling timber is a practice that was popularized in the early 1990s as issues such as deforestation and climate change prompted both ...
Beginning in the 1540s, further exploitation of its remaining forests ensued as British factories began consuming vast amounts of wood to fuel its iron industry. In an attempt to preserve its dwindling resource, parliament passed Act for the Preservation of Woods in 1543, limiting further felling of timber to 440 yards from landed property.
Lumber Liquidators Flooring was started in 1994 by Tom Sullivan, a building contractor who began purchasing excess wood from other companies. He then resold the wood from the back of a trucking firm's yard in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Three years later in 1996, the company found their niche market in hardwood flooring.
In 1978, Schaeffer took $3,000 in savings and a $5,000 loan from his father and bought a 50% share of an alternative energy store Open Circle from Steve Troy in Willits, California Steve Troy and John Schaeffer then changed the name from Open Circle to Real Goods Trading Company. that sold all the "real goods" for off-grid living at fair prices.