With New Facilities in Madison, VA and Ground-Breaking, Eco-Friendly
Standards, Virginia Reclaimed Flooring Company Grows Even Greener
RUCKERSVILLE, Va., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time ever, a
reclaimed flooring company will transform sawdust and wood chips from its
manufacturing processes into fuel to power on-site drying kilns and to create
electricity for the plant.
By transforming waste into energy, and with the acquisition of an
additional facility in Madison, VA, Virginia-based Mountain Lumber is setting
new eco-friendly standards for the flooring industry while making ground-
breaking strides to increase production.
"We've never cut down a tree to make flooring," says Willie Drake, who
founded Mountain Lumber more than 30 years ago. "It just seems natural that a
leading reclaimed lumber company should also carve a path in developing a
manufacturing process that makes the most out of a very limited natural
resource. This is an example of finding an innovative way to do the right
thing and keeping our long-standing commitment to environmentalism. We hope
others will follow our lead."
The purchase of Madison Wood Flooring will also give Mountain Lumber the
manufacturing resources it needs to meet a growing demand for historic and
ecologically-friendly wood flooring. "We simply had to grow to meet the
market's needs," Drake said. "Architects, builders and homeowners recognize
the quality in our work and we're growing the business to make sure we can
produce it for them."
Mountain Lumber purchased Madison Wood Flooring's entire 12-acre
manufacturing facility that includes the land, mill shop, kilns and
warehouses. "This gives us the space we need to run the most efficient
flooring line in the business," Drake said. "With this new plant we will be
able to streamline our entire operation, increase productivity and improve our
yield."
As the industry leader in antique, reclaimed woods, Mountain Lumber
rescues timbers from buildings being taken down around the world and mills
them into flooring, beams and architectural details. The business centers
around Historic Heart Pine(R) and Antique American Oak reclaimed from century-
old mills up and down the East Coast of the United States as well as Chestnut
that had been previously used in Appalachian barns. Other more exotic
Mountain Lumber finds include ancient Chinese Elm saved from 15th Century Ming
Dynasty buildings, reclaimed hundred-year-old English "Cooper's Oak" and
Russian Oak.
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