Category: What’s New at Hull Forest Products

  • Preserving May Brook Glen

    October 2010- The Hull family has donated a 3.3 acre parcel in Holland, Massachusettts, comprising May Brook Glen to the Opacum Land Trust in order to see the parcel protected from development. May Brook Glen has over 1,000 feet of frontage on May Brook, which rushes and tumbles over rapids in May Brook Glen and…

  • Big Bad Flooring Moulder

    We are quite proud of our newest piece of equipment: a Weinig moulder. This thing makes it possible for us to bring you perfect floor planks, whether you want square edge tongue and groove floor planks or beaded edge paneling.

  • Hull Forest Products Earns FSC Certification

    August 2009- Hull Forest Products is now certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards and we are pleased to offer our customers FSC-certified flooring and lumber from our sawmill. Nearly a decade ago, the Hull Forestlands were certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards.  Since then public concern about the state of the world’s forests…

  • Helping Nature Conservancy Conserve Working Forests

      March 2009- By conveying an easement on 450 acres of forestland it owns and manages in Union, CT, Hull Forestlands has helped the Nature Conservancy reach its 50,000 acre mark of protected forests, rivers, and coastline across the state. The conservation easement, established with the help of a grant from the North American Wetlands Conservation…

  • Champion of Youth and Wildlife Award

    February 2009-   The nonprofit organization Facts About Wildlife & Nature Society (FAWNS) has recognized Hull Forest Products for their long-time generous support of the Massachusetts Outdoor Expo (“The Big MOE”) with a special “Champion of Youth and Wildlife Award.” The Big MOE is an outdoor experience where families are encouraged to sample, entirely free of…

  • Supplying Wood Chips for Public School Renewable Energy Initiative

    September 2008- Hull Forest Products To Supply Wood Chips for Rhode Island Public School Energy Initiative The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $984,000 grant to Ponaganset High School in Rhode Island to develop an alternative energy laboratory and install a wood-chip fired heating system. The D.O.E. grant also includes funds for the installation…

  • Energy-Saving Upgrades to Our Dry Kilns

    February 2007- What small company wouldn’t want to save $30,000-$40,000 a year in electricity costs? When Hull Forest Products Kiln Manager John Cody approached management about installing new dry kiln controls in 2006, it was the potential savings in energy costs that generated the most excitement. Connecticut Light and Power sent out a private engineer…

  • Waste Not, Want Not: Recovering Optimum Value from Every Board

    January 2004-Hull Forest Products Installs First-of-Its-Kind Edger In 2004, Hull Forest Products installed and began running a new computer-optimized edger system that was the first of its kind in North America. An edger is a machine that saws the round edges off boards from the saw carriage. This may sound like a simple task, but…

  • Cowls Sells Timbers Business to HFP

    January 2010- Hull Forest Products announces the addition of pine timbers to its existing spruce and hardwood timbers line, following its purchase of W.D. Cowls’ pine timbers business. Included in the purchase was the Cowls company timber sizer, which enables Hull Forest Products to surface timbers 16” tall and up to 24” wide—huge pieces of wood—on…