National Hardwood Magazine - May 2023
Get the latest hardwood news in the May 2023 issue of National Hardwood Magazine! This issue features stories on Oak Pointe, Gates Milling, M&M Lumber and much more.
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SCMA Holds Annual Meeting<br />
Nashville, TN – The Southern Cypress Manufacturers<br />
Association (SCMA) held its <strong>2023</strong> Annual Meeting<br />
recently at the JW Marriott, located here, in conjunction<br />
with the <strong>Hardwood</strong> Manufacturers Association’s <strong>National</strong><br />
Conference & Expo.<br />
Twenty-seven members, promotion sponsors, staff<br />
and guests gathered together for a networking reception<br />
and dinner to open the two-day event. The next morning,<br />
attendees met to review the association’s promotion<br />
campaign, previewed upcoming projects, discussed other<br />
business items, and elected officers for the year.<br />
Cassie Lewis, Turn Bull Lumber Company, Elizabethtown,<br />
NC, was elected SCMA president. Lewis joined<br />
Turn Bull Lumber Company in 2011, working her way<br />
through the accounting and logistics departments, before<br />
joining the sales team in 2015. She now serves as<br />
the company’s account manager, and is responsible for<br />
all sales, as well as managing the green and kiln-dried<br />
inventories.<br />
Truss Beasley, Beasley Forest Products (BFP), Hazlehurst,<br />
GA, was elected SCMA vice president. He joined<br />
BFP in 2014 and currently serves as vice president of<br />
business development for the Beasley Group sawmills<br />
and flooring plants. Beasley earned a Bachelor of Finance<br />
and a Master of Business Administration from<br />
Georgia Southern University.<br />
The SCMA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the<br />
promotion of Cypress building products to design professionals<br />
and consumers. For more information, visit<br />
www.CypressInfo.org. Follow the SCMA on Instagram<br />
and Twitter at @cypress_info, and on Facebook at<br />
@southerncypress.<br />
If your company is engaged in the manufacture, processing,<br />
or distribution of Cypress building products,<br />
and is interested in joining, email member-services@<br />
cypressinfo.org to learn about membership. n<br />
Joseph Haggerty, Williams Lumber Company, Rocky Mount, NC;<br />
and Logan Josey and Tripp Josey, Josey Lumber Co. Inc., Scotland<br />
Neck, NC<br />
John Haggerty and George Riley, Williams Lumber Company,<br />
Rocky Mount, NC; and Brooks Jeffords, Turn Bull Lumber Company,<br />
Elizabethtown, NC<br />
Truss Beasley, Beasley Forest Products, Hazlehurst, GA; Cassie<br />
Lewis, Turn Bull Lumber Company, Elizabethtown, NC; Kelsey<br />
Kennedy, Gates Milling Inc., Gatesville, NC; and Ian Faight, SCMA,<br />
Warrendale, PA<br />
Robin Little, McGriff Insurance Services Inc./<strong>National</strong> Forest<br />
Products Practice, Greenville, NC; Lance Johnson, ISK Biocides<br />
Inc., Memphis, TN; and Lee White, Turn Bull Lumber Company,<br />
Elizabethtown, NC<br />
52 MAY <strong>2023</strong> n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE www.RealAmerican<strong>Hardwood</strong>.org
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