Indiana's Top 25 Timber Harvesting Enterprises

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Indiana's timber industry is a vibrant ecosystem of companies involved in the harvesting, processing, and distribution of timber. These firms offer a variety of services, from timber marking and forest management planning to buying timber and providing local species lumber. The industry plays an essential role in Indiana's economy, directly contributing to local communities and promoting sustainable forestry. With an increasing focus on sustainability and green practices, these companies are committed to forest stewardship to ensure the longevity of Indiana's rich timber resources.


Top 25 timber harvesting companies in Indiana

1. Pike Lumber Company, Inc.

Pike Lumber Company is a provider of forest management services and hardwood lumber based in Indiana. With over a century of experience, they are known for their dedication to quality, service, and forest stewardship. They offer a comprehensive range of services including timber marking, timber stand improvement, and forest management planning. Their superior timber resource allows them to produce a wide variety of hardwood lumber products, such as White Oak, Walnut, Cherry, and Poplar.


2. Tri-State Hardwood Company, Inc.

  • Website: tshardwood.com
  • Headquarters: South Milford, Indiana, United States
  • Founded: 1969
  • Headcount: 51-200
  • LinkedIn

Tri-State Hardwood Company Inc. is a sawmill located in South Milford, Indiana, offering services including buying timber, cutting logs, and providing local species lumber to businesses throughout the U.S.


3. Indiana Timber and Veneer, LLC

Indiana Timber and Veneer is a family-owned company that buys standing timber and timberland and focuses on green logging practices to promote sustainable forests.


4. Baird Sawmill, Inc.

Baird Sawmill purchases standing timber of all native hardwood species and manufacture an array of products, from lumber and pallets to log homes.


5. Southern Indiana Hardwoods

  • Website: sihlumb.com
  • Headquarters: Huntingburg, Indiana, United States
  • Headcount: 11-50

Southern Indiana Hardwoods is a company located in Dubois County, Indiana that specializes in the harvesting and manufacturing of grade lumber, pallet stock, and untreated railroad ties. They also produce wood pellets and animal bedding from sawdust and wood chips.


6. Cruse Hardwoods

Cruse Hardwoods, owned and operated by Perry Cruse Jr., whose foundation began when my father, Perry Cruse Sr. retired in 1983 from General Motors. Together we began to invest in real estate which led to our growing knowledge of the timber industry. Real estate and timber remained part time and word of mouth until I, who also worked at General Motors, retired in 1996. By that time, I had begun teaching my son the basics of the industry. Cruse Hardwoods now employee's more than six full time logging crews and a professional forester with a degree from Purdue University, who heads up our forest management program. In a rapidly growing industry, Cruse Hardwoods has diversified to provide a professional service for our landowners. We are a small company with the capability to provide individual attention and management to our customers, which seem to slip through the cracks of larger timber companies. Yet we are large enough to offer a complete range of forestry services. From your basic timber buying and harvest to a complete forest management plan. Our Mission is to work for our landowners, not ourselves and to help them achieve their individual goals for their forest land.


7. Interstate Forestry Inc

We offer first quality hardwood flooring, stair treads, window treatments, fireplace mantels, vrown moulding, custom wood cabinets. Buyers of standing timber, producers of fine American hardwood lumber. We offer American made wood products.


8. Frank Miller Lumber Company

Frank Miller Lumber is a wholesale lumber supplier specializing in the manufacture of quartersawn hardwood lumber. They offer a wide range of species including white oak, red oak, cherry, hard maple, hickory, and walnut.


9. Quality Hardwood Products

Quality Hardwood Products, INC., is a certified Indiana Hardwood Producer and member of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association. We produce premium Indiana walnut veneer logs and lumber. Our History In May of 1972, Kathy and Roger Presl who had been married for 5 years, decided to leave Wisconsin, where they grew up and attended school together, and migrate to Indiana. Roger had been working in the lumber industry for the 9 previous years and he had received a job offer in Indiana that was too good to turn down. While working on his new Indiana job in sales and purchasing, a supplier was having problems running his sawmill efficiently. Roger had made several suggestions to this fellow to improve his efficiency and rather than take the advice Roger was offering, he made Roger a proposition for which Roger could purchase his sawmill business for a fair price with no money down and no interest. So, in 1973, Roger and Kathy decided to accept the mans offer and purchase his sawmill business. It was a rocky beginning, with a recession hitting the lumber industry in 1974. Somehow, the new business managed to survive that recession and began a long slow growth that is still happening today. Roger and Kathy faced several other economic downturns that affected the hardwood lumber industry in 1981 and 1990. Meanwhile, Kathy was raising a daughter and two sons, all born in Indiana, while she did all the office work and record keeping for the business, which included another new business, HearthGlow packaged firewood bundles, which was started in 1989. At that time Roger was doing all the sales of lumber and purchasing of logs and timber, while doing the Headsawing, lumber inspection, maintenance, and mechanical work. We were producing cut up firewood, delivered on the local markets for several years when the International Harvester truck plant in Ft. Wayne went on strike idling 5,000 workers. About 4,000 of them temporarily went into the firewood business and Quality Hardwood Products firewood business slowed so ...


10. Indiana Timber Buyers

Indiana Timber Buyers is a company founded by Dan Schwering with the intent to educate landowners on the process of selling timber and managing stands to ensure maximum financial gain. We operate with integrity and believe there is only one way to do business, the right way!


11. Quality Hardwood Sales

Quality Hardwoods & Sawmill produces and provides high-quality Indiana Hardwoods & furniture grade lumber and also offers services like custom hardwood flooring, CNC milling, kiln-drying, and sawmilling.


12. Superior Hardwoods

Superior Hardwoods is one of the largest sawmills in Indiana. This facility utilizes some of the latest innovations in lumber sorting and grading technology to ensure that our clients receive consistent quality hardwood. In 2017, Superior Hardwoods became a location of Baillie Lumber Co. This sawmill facility is located in West Central Indiana and is vertically aligned to control lumber quality from timber procurement to lumber delivery. Our computerized 55-bay laser sorter and tally systems, coupled with our experienced staff of NHLA (National Hardwood Lumber Association) certified inspectors, provide strict quality controls load after load.


13. Phoenix Mat

  • Website: phoenixmat.com
  • Headquarters: Odon, Indiana, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

Phoenix Mat provides private landowners and businesses with timber harvesting services and quality wood products. We are located in Odon, Indiana and can be reached at (812) 362-3350. Ask us about our free estimate!


14. M &a; R Timber Management

Managing Timberland M & R Timber Management specializes in obtaining the highest value for your timber while ensuring a healthy forest for you and future generations. We take great pride in managing your timberland. Only taking a very select and well planned harvest to make room for new growth and to promote sunlight. This also creates new bedding grounds for wildlife and foliage. Harvesting is only done when ground conditions are suitable to avoid any ground damage. Tree tops are left in the woods and will deplete over time returning back into soil and return nutrients. Landowners may also choose to cut it up for firewood. M & R Timber Management are skilled timber cutters with over ten years of combined professional experience. Directionally cutting trees ensures they fall damaging the least amount of standing timber as possible. We are first and foremost Arborists seeking to preserve quality timbers and ensure generations from now still have Wooded Forests to explore. We guarantee our work and if for any reason you are not 100% satisfied, we will do everything possible to please you. M & R Timber Management is fully insured, licensed and bonded.


15. Ohio River Veneer

Ohio River Veneer LLC is a family-owned and operated company that specializes in handmade tables made from the best veneer wood. They also provide services such as standing timber and timberland buying, eco-friendly logging, and land enhancement.


16. Michiana Timber Management

Established in 2004. Michiana Timber Management believes in the future of your property. Our family and locally owned company uses sustainable practices when harvesting your trees so you can make more profit over time. We sell directly to lumber mills and our marketing brings in the maximum value on each tree. We are fully licensed, insured and bonded for timber management services in Shipshewana, IN and the surrounding 75 miles. We have had an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau since 2004. The owner is present at every job, so you can be assured your property and trees receive the best care possible. 2001 we started cutting firewood to sell. In September of 2004 Slabach Logging was founded. We did selective timber harvesting for the bigger timber companies in our area, and also a few private timber owners who were local. In 2008 when the economy went into recession we started advertising to the timber owners. We found we could make more money for private timber owners by selling their timber on ""log auctions. In 2011 we acquired a small band sawmill to help utilize the low end logs that were tough to sell on the log auctions, and also do custom milling. In 2014 we started with the tree service side of it to accommodate our existing customers with tree service needs. It just keeps growing till now it's close to 25% of our business. In 2016 we sold our facility and relocated to Shipshewana, IN. At this time we're out sourcing all our mill work. Hopefully by the end of 2018 we can have our mill up and going again. In 2017 we changed our name to Michiana Timber Management.


17. Indiana Chapter of the Association of Consulting Foresters

  • Website: indiana-acf.org
  • Headquarters: Lizton, Indiana, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

Indiana Chapter of the Association of Consulting Foresters is a company that operates in the Environmental Services industry. It employs 6-10 people and has $1M-$5M of revenue. The company is headquartered in Lizton, Indiana.


18. Helmsburg Sawmill INC

Established in 1973. Buyers of Standing Timber providing forest management services. Custom Log Cabin Lumber Packages. Custom rough sawn native poplar sizes up to 28 feet long. Posts, beams, and rafters. Rough sawn native poplar lumber for barn siding, homes, and building projects. Including Board & Batten, and live edge siding. Firewood to heat your homes, and mulch for your landscaping projects. We are a full service sawmill Helmsburg Sawmill is a family owned and operated business since 1973 with 3 generations currently employed. Past present and future generations working together. Harvesting natural renewable resources through sustainable forest management practices. Striving to provide a quality product utilizing 42 years of experience with a ""NO WASTE"" attitude. From the forest, to the mill then to you, the tree is debarked, sawn for boards, providing lumber for homes, logs for cabins, mulch for gardens, sawdust for your barns, and firewood for your homes. Let's do business.


19. PSH

  • Website: pshwoods.com
  • Headquarters: Spencer, Indiana, United States
  • Headcount: 1-10

PSH, Inc. is a hardwood log broker specializing in veneer and saw logs for domestic and export manufacturing. Wood species we focus on include Walnut, White Oak, Hard Maple, Cherry, Hickory, Sassafras, Red Oak and Poplar. With a degree in Forestry from the University of Montana and more than 30 years of experience, the owner, Richard (Dick) Patterson has the knowledge needed to provide quality logs for manufacturing. Mr. Patterson is an active licensed timber buyer agent through the Indiana Department of Natural Resources - Division of Forestry and Patterson Specialty Hardwoods, Inc. a valid FSC certification holder.


20. Amos-Hill Associates, Inc.

Amos Hill is a company that specializes in veneers and furnitures. They provide a variety of high-quality and certified wood products that cater to the needs and demands of their customers.


21. Wood-Mizer LLC

  • Website: woodmizer.com
  • Headquarters: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
  • Founded: 1982
  • Headcount: 501-1000
  • LinkedIn

Wood-Mizer is a global provider of portable sawmills and wood processing equipment. With a focus on innovation and quality, they offer a wide range of solutions for individuals and businesses involved in the wood industry.


22. Exterior Wood Restoration Inc

Hansen Multimedia Exterior Wood Restoration is an industry leader in professional wood preservation, specializing in installation and restoration of cedar shake roofs, cleaning and maintenance of decks, fences, gazebos, pergolas, log homes and wood siding.


23. Timber Sales

Timber Sales and Wildlife Management, timber appraisals, timber stand improvement, tree planting and wildlife habitat management.


24. Church of the Harvest

Church of the Harvest is a contemporary, multi-racial and multi-generational church family that focuses on prayer, the Word of God, and empowering believers to be effective in their role in the Body of Christ.


25. Cook Lumber Company

Cook Lumber is a hardwood lumber company that offers a wide selection of hardwoods for retail. They also offer other products such as wood skids, blocking, pallets, and forest management services.


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