Business View Magazine | April 2021

53 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE APRIL 2021 Canada’s premier building materials distributor, providing local partnerships from coast to coast PO Box 1668 | Woodstock, ON N4S 0A9 | 1-800-265-1985 | www.gillfor.com Lumber Panels Maibec Genuine Wood Siding Western Red Cedar Pine Douglas Fir Decking Railing LP Building Soutions Engineered Wood MA I BEC However, having them in the same portfolio is giving us a strong market presence where we are selling, and expanded the size of our market. In the past, we were concentrated with the white cedar shingles in the northeast, mostly along the New England coast, now with the western red we’re expanding all over the northeast down to the Mid-Atlantic and up to the Lake states.” Maibec is committed to environmental responsibility, using 100 percent of the trees they transform. In that regard, they are now transforming the residue from cedar shingle production into cedar mulch for horticultural use. Tardif emphasizes, “Whatever product we’re creating, everything is used – nothing goes to waste. My father, my brother, and I are all foresters and it has always been important to us to have log supply from well-managed forests and a long-term vision. This is the way we’re developing the company.”