Business View Magazine | September 2020

44 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 2894 Sentinel Road, South Slocan, BC (250) 359-7000 www.selkirktruss.com Manufacturers of Engineered Floors & Roof Truss Systems for Residential and Commercial Buildings. All the products we manufacture are professionally engineered to local Building Codes and are accompanied by Engineer Sealed Documentation. We also sell Super Floor Joists, LVL Beams, Glue-Lam Beams, Metal Roofing and Specialty Hangers for all construction applications. Beams • Open Web Floors • Trusses • Roofing Metal • PK Joists points out several other characteristics that he feels give Kalesnikoff Lumber an edge over its competitors. “One of the great things for us is the area in which we live,” he states. “We have some of the world’s best timber supply – it’s strong; it’s beautiful. So, when you start with a natural resource with that type of value, it’s a natural competitive advantage. Then, there’s the fact that we remain family-owned and operated. Our family has been in this area for 81 years. We have some very strong core values in how we run our business and we’re relationship and quality-based. Those things go a long way and have allowed us to be successful, globally.” One of the company’s key core values lies in its understanding that timber is, in some ways, a fragile, yet, ultimately, renewable resource. While the company gets some of its wood from the stands owned by the provincial government, as well as other private landowners, Kalesnikoff has its own supply to handle and harvest. “Our