Business View Magazine | September 2020

42 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 bloodlines,” Chris continues. “The roots of our business have always been value-added; we’ve always looked at ways to best utilize the product to get the most value out of it, and we’ve always been able to look for niche markets, globally. So, in the late 1990s, we started our second facility, which was a re-manufacturing plant. That plant focused on value-added products. We starting doing more things outside of just lumber and timbers. Eventually, that plant produced lineal products, such as softwood paneling, flooring, exterior wood siding, moldings, and trims, etc. My sister and I also started with the company at a young age; we both went away to school and returned in the early 2000s, and being fourth generation, we had the same goals: to continue to grow our business with the same values that the generations before us brought forth.” Today, Kalesnikoff Lumber has over 160 employees and two different branches – its solid timber division, which is focused on global markets: North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and most particularly, Japan; and its mass timber division, which deals with large construction firms in North America and is focused on producing finished buildings, including single- and multi-family homes, and large commercial structures. “We started looking into mass timber fairly aggressively in 2014, and it’s been a six-year journey,” says Chris. “Our mass timber facility came online earlier this year, so now, we have parallel marketplaces. We’re not only looking for solid lumber/timber construction, but now, we’re actually supplying finished projects and buildings, as well.” In fact, Kalesnikoff’s new, $35-million, state- of-the-art mass timber facility promises to make the company the most advanced, vertically integrated, multi-species mass timber manufacturer in North America, offering Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), Glue Laminated Timber (GLT) panels, and Glulam Beams and Columns. CLT is formed by stacking and gluing together multi-layers of dimensional lumber at an