COURTESY OF TREELINE, INC.
In an era where large corporations often dominate the commercial landscape, family-owned businesses like Treeline make a real difference in the communities they serve.
Maine’s Forest Products Industry (MFPI) is a rich tapestry of independent contractors, sole proprietors, and small businesses who contribute to their communities in unique ways: providing secure employment, boosting local economies, and stewarding the forests they call home.
These companies make up the backbone of the state’s traditional rural economy. According to a 2019 report from the University of Maine, the MFPI contributes nearly 32,000 full and part-time jobs within the state.
These jobs offer our neighbors, friends, and family members quality employment. Given the chance to build careers close to home, these hardworking people support other local businesses — creating self-sustaining ecosystems in rural areas with limited economic opportunity.
Every year Treeline is evolving and growing, creating jobs and better supporting its community. In 2023, Treeline’s new sawmill came online, creating up to ten jobs and providing much desired rough sawn timbers and lumber for camps, barns, sheds, decks, and more.
Meanwhile, Treeline’s Service Center has also been expanding. Adding services and product lines such as SP Tools, a lifetime warranty line of hand tools; high-quality, cost effective Vitillo hydraulic hoses and fittings, and others. Check us out at: treelineinc.biz.
Other MFPI businesses in our area and throughout the state are also positively impacting their communities. At Lincoln’s former LP&T mill site, work continues repurposing the area to support plans for a future biofuel plant, creating new jobs converting wood waste into heating fuel.
Down the road in Enfield, Standard Biocarbon’s plant has come online to convert sustainably harvested forest materials into high quality biochar and is employing even more community members. The manufactured biochar offers many beneficial uses to agricultural and environmental activities around the northeast.
Just completing their first year of production, we want to give a SHOUT OUT to TimberHP’s continued success converting wood fiber to quality building insulation in Madison, Maine!
The Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast (PLC), an organization of over 200 small family businesses (including Treeline), provides a voice for the timber harvesting and trucking companies within the industry. They also give back, raising $2.5 million since 1995 through the Log A Load for Kids program for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in Maine, including Northern Light Eastern Maine Healthcare in Bangor.
The industry’s readiness to give back doesn’t stop there. Treeline is committed to our own philanthropic efforts, as illustrated by our non-profit charity: Treeline Making a Difference, which helps support various community needs.
Treeline staff members along with compassionate community members have been instrumental in supporting the Northern Penobscot Activities Council (NPAC), a local 501c3 supporting our communities through education, outreach, personal and community development.
It is clear that Maine would not be the great place it is to live if not for the family businesses that make up the Forest Products Industry!
