Florence Hardwoods, LLC

About Florence Hardwoods, LLC

Florence Hardwoods, LLC is a sawmill in Florence, Wisconsin, and it also buys timber. The owners are loggers themselves, so the mill yard stays stocked, and every cant order is cut to the customer's own specs on species, grade, width, and length. The mill works in Hard Maple, white ash, and aspen, and it runs a "100% Zero Waste Facility," turning bark into heat for the kiln, overrun into chips for paper mills, and sawdust into bedding and other products. It draws wood from a 150 mile procurement radius around Florence, covering northeastern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula, including US Forest Service land, state forestland in Michigan and Wisconsin, county and municipal holdings, and private industrial and non-industrial forest owners. A number of its suppliers are Michigan Master Logger Certified or Wisconsin Master Logger Certified, and a large share of the raw material comes from certified forestlands. Florence Hardwoods was restarted in 2011, when two large Upper Peninsula logging companies took over a vacant sawmill. It calls its approach "First-name Basis Procurement," saying it knows much of the region's landowners, foresters, and the loggers and truckers who haul wood to its yard. This one fits a landowner near the Wisconsin-Michigan border whose stand runs to Hard Maple, white ash, or aspen, and who wants a mill with its own logging roots rather than a broker standing between them and the yard. From florencehardwoods.com, read 8 October 2026.

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