National Lumber Uses Green Manufacturing Processes

In our workshops, wood scrap from the truss and panel plants is chipped and recycled to wood pellet companies. We sell these wood fuel pellets at all of our locations.

In our Boscawen, New Hampshire location, wood scraps are burned for heat. Doing so saves us about $40,000 in annual fuel expenses.

Metal scraps are sent away to be processed and recycled by an outside company to be manufactured into nails, which we then sell in our stores. This steel scrap recycling saves about $15,000 in annual trash expenses.

Plastics such as straps and protective coverings are taken away by a local recycling company where the material can be processed and made into recycled plastic products. Millwork PVC board cut-offs are picked up regularly by a recycling company in Connecticut.

All of these efforts reduce operating expenses and avoid impacting a landfill.

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