Since it’s beginning in 1973 Allegheny Wood Products main focus has been producing high quality Appalachian hardwood lumber. Prior to the building of the kiln drying facility in Petersburg, West Virginia in 1984, all AWP lumber was sold as a green product to domestic users. Today AWP has grown kiln dried lumber production to 59% of sales volume to customers worldwide. Total sawmill production is 140 million board feet annually (330,358 cubic meters) and dry kiln production is approximately 83 million board feet (195,855) cubic meters).

In spite of the growth in kiln dried lumber sales, AWP still sells over 57 million board feet of green lumber (134,503 cubic meters). Green grade lumber is available in many of the species, grades, and thicknesses sawn by AWP.

Industrial lumber for uses in blocking, pallets and crating is produced in a variety of dimensions with 1 x 7.25 being the largest volume of pallet grade lumber produced by AWP. Random width pallet grade lumber is also available from all AWP sawmills.

For pallet lumber contact Linda Hedrick

AWP believes in total utilization of the forest resource and by-products of lumber production such as sawdust, bark, and sawmill slabs are processed and sold as useful commercial products. Slabs and other solid wood residues are chipped and sold as hardwood chips to paper manufacturers. Sawdust is separated during the manufacturing process and sold for animal bedding and fuel. Bark is taken off logs prior to sawing and sold for hardwood mulch.

For sales of by-products contact PJ Wright

Being located in the center of the Appalachian Hardwood Region allows AWP to produce a wide variety of species of hardwood lumber. Desirable characteristics such as color consistency, good average widths and lengths, and slow grown, tight grain are all characteristics of the Appalachian lumber produced by AWP.