Gates Milling, Inc.
About Gates Milling, Inc.
Gates Milling, Inc. is a sawmill, planer mill, and dry kiln facility in Gatesville, North Carolina. It describes itself as "a fully integrated sawmill, planer mill, and dry kiln facility," founded in 1978 by Brian Martin and still run by the family that owns it today. The mill saws logs, dries lumber in its own kilns, and planes and moulds it into finished boards, siding, and trim. It also makes colored mulch. Its main species are Cypress, Atlantic White Cedar, and Poplar, and it also works with Red Oak, White Oak, Soft Maple, and White Ash. Gates Milling "sources most of its logs from within 150 miles of the mill location," and it is listed as serving Gates County. The company belongs to a number of industry groups, including the North Carolina Forestry Association, the National Hardwood Lumber Association, the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association, and the Hardwood Manufacturers Association. It has been operating at its Gatesville location since 1978 and has grown over the decades to add its own sawmill, dry kilns, and planer equipment, so it handles every step from log to finished product in-house. This is a long-standing local mill built around processing Cypress, Cedar, Poplar, Oak, Ash, and Maple into finished wood products, which may suit a landowner near Gatesville with those species on the ground who is looking for a mill with its own kilns and planer rather than a standing-timber buyer. From gatesmilling.com, read 10 October 2026.
Also trades as Gates Custom Milling, Inc..
Products
Equipment & Capability
- Cleereman Industries optimized carriage with 3D scanning
- Nicholson A6 debarker
- McDonough horizontal resaw
- McDonough 3-saw edger
- Dawson Brothers sorting and trimming system
- Two Wellons track dry kilns
- Two SII package dry kilns (200,000 board feet total kiln capacity)
- Two 50,000 board-foot dry kilns installed in early 2023
- Kentwood 8-head moulder
- Weinig Hydromat moulder
- Newman 4-side planer
Services Offered
Species Purchased
Association Membership
Established
1978
Family Generations
3
Facility Type
sawmill
Output
Nearly 12 million board feet a year
Years in Business
48
Service Radius
100 mi
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Service Area
North Carolina
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