The Kalesnikoff Lumbar Company

Global Supply Local Support © 2020 Hexion Inc. All rights reserved. Responsible Chemistry Hexion has been at the forefront of the forest products industry for over 80 years inspiring our global partners to produce one of the most sustainable building materials on earth— engineered wood. Proud to be associated with Kalesnikoff Lumber THE KALESNI KOFF LUMBER COMPANY Canada in the late 1890s, made their way across the west, and, eventually, settled here in British Columbia. During the Great Depression, the family had the opportunity to harvest firewood for some local refineries and saw an opportunity to turn that into a mountainside operation. The family would travel up on Sunday by horseback, build a camp, horse-log all week, and then come out into the village on Saturday with product. That’s how the business started. My grandfather got involved in the business at a young age, and by 20, became the general manager. He was a strong entrepreneur and saw the opportunity to grow the business from a small mountainside logging operation into a full-fledged sawmill operation. By the late 1960s, we relocated and started our new sawmill facility, which then included complete log breakdowns, planer mills, dry kilns, and so on.” “My father came on board at a young age, as well, with the same kind of entrepreneurial