Mill

Heyes Forest Products Inc

saw two and a half million board feet each year of lumber from the North Quabbin region · 1 county

About Heyes Forest Products Inc

Heyes Forest Products Inc is a small sawmill in Orange, Massachusetts. In their own words, "We are a small sawmill located in Orange, Massachusetts. We saw pine, hemlock, red oak, and mixed hardwoods, and sell to both wholesale and retail markets." They buy woodland and standing timber, and also offer forestry advice, management plans, Chapter 61 and Forest Stewardship plans, forest cutting plans, and conservation easement services, all under "Massachusetts licenced forestry services." They work with white pine, red oak, birch, maple, cherry, ash, white oak, and poplar, sawing about two and a half million board feet a year from the North Quabbin region. They serve Franklin County. The mill has been running since 1970, when it began manufacturing lumber, and it moved to the Orange Industrial Park in 1984. Lumber comes off a computer-controlled linebar band resaw and through computer-controlled dry kilns with a 110,000 board foot capacity, sold green or kiln dried, rough or finished. They are known for "fine quality White Pine and Red Oak" and belong to national hardwood and softwood grading agencies. Fred Heyes has also put conservation restrictions on company land held by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, part of a longer-term approach to managing the forest base. This fits a landowner in Franklin County who wants to sell standing timber or get a forestry plan done by a mill that also saws and dries its own lumber, rather than just brokering it. From heyesforest.com, read 8 October 2026.