Forestry
Log Procurement
Durgin and Crowell employs 3 full-time
procurement foresters. Each year, we purchase Eastern White Pine logs from over 150 log suppliers. Our suppliers consist of loggers, landowners and foresters, and range in size from arborists and family farmers to large logging companies with multiple crews.
Our convenient
location in Springfield, NH, consistent demand for fiber, and good working relationship with our log suppliers, help ensure that we'll always have high-quality logs to feed our sawmill. Thanks to our production crews and sales staff, we're able to turn those logs into finished lumber for sale to our customers.
Our products are shipped across the country, and the revenue derived from their sale goes back to the company, its employees, and the many local loggers and landowners who sell us logs. In more ways than one, Durgin and Crowell serves a critical role in the local economy.
Byproducts
Nothing goes to waste.
As byproducts of the milling process, Durgin and Crowell generates approximately 32,000 tons of “green” (i.e. approximately 50% moisture content) mill chips per year, 12,000 tons/year of green sawdust, 10,000 tons/year bark, 12,000 tons/year “dry” (approximately 10% MC) shavings and 1,000 tons of dry, ground board ends.
Our mill chips are sold to paper mills to be used as pulp, yet the chips have been used for electric generation in past years. Most of our sawdust and all of our dry grindings are blended and burned in an on-site, 500 hp wood-fired boiler, which provides steam heat to our eighteen (18) dry kilns (we also have two smaller boilers, one oil-fired and one propane/oil). Our shavings are bagged in an automated bagging room and are sold to livestock owners, and our bark is ground in an on-site grinder, and later sold for mulch.
Commitment to the environment and to being a local source for employment has led Durgin and Crowell to be recognized as a good corporate citizen by area residents and by local governments.
