Mcdowell Lumber & Pallet Co., Inc.

About Mcdowell Lumber & Pallet Co., Inc.

McDowell Lumber & Pallet Co., Inc. is a sawmill and pallet manufacturer in Asheboro, North Carolina. Alongside running the mill, they buy standing timber, logs, and land, so a landowner can go straight to the people who will actually mill the wood. They work in hardwoods: red oak, white oak, poplar, hickory, gum, ash, sycamore, maple, beech, and mixed hardwoods. Beyond buying timber, their listed work covers timber purchasing and evaluation, forest management planning, logging assistance, reforestation, land management consultation, hardwood sawmilling, kiln drying, surfacing and planing, custom pallet design, heat treating for export, and their own trucking. They describe themselves plainly as a company that will "buy land, timber, and logs," and they also sell mulch, chips, and sawdust locally by the full trailer load. They serve Randolph, Chatham, Davidson, Davie, Montgomery, Forsyth, Iredell, Rowan, Guilford, Rockingham, and Mecklenburg counties. The company traces back to 1974, when Tony McDowell started out scouting timber with "a lumberjack's eye," and it has grown from that single portable saw into a mill that now ships lumber well beyond the Carolinas. This fits a landowner in that stretch of central North Carolina who wants to deal with a mill that buys its own timber and logs, rather than a broker standing between the woods and the saw. From mcdowelllumberco.com, read 10 October 2026.

Also trades as McDowell Lumber Company.

Products

Equipment & Capability

• McDonough band mill (head rig)
• Edminston circular saw (head rig)
• Nicholson ring debarker
• Ligna gang saw
• West Plains resaw
• USNR edger and sorter
• Newnes trimmer
• Brewer / Golden Eagle gang saws (pallet plant)
• Rayco pallet nailing machines
• Pendu stacker
• Smart Products pallet dismantler
• Converta-Kiln heat-treating system
• Private trucking fleet

Services Offered

Species Purchased