National Hardwood Magazine - May 2023

M&M Lumber Continued from page 29
A sense of humor – in the form of this COVID Christmas card – is part of M&M
Lumber.
“When M&M Lumber was started by my wife’s grandfather – he
partnered with a local developer – there were 40 local lumberyards.
Now there are only four or five,” he said, adding that the company
maintains a healthy sense of perspective in terms of its position in the
overall marketplace. “We’re a small duck on the pond with the other
guys in town.”
Still, this small duck routinely purchases upwards of 10 million board
feet each year, demonstrating that it has developed an approach that
has allowed it to thrive even as many other
similarly sized family lumber companies
have either been bought out or gone under.
“We work with everyone, from the person
building birdhouses to the contractor
constructing multi-family apartments,”
Sean said. “We change with the times as
the market predicates it,” he said, noting
that composite material companies, such
as Hardie, have made significant inroads
into the traditional lumber market over the
years. “We’ve adjusted as that’s become
more market-driven.”
This flexibility became especially important
during the pandemic, when product
availability became an industry-wide concern.
Sean explained that the company
culture at M&M Lumber was particularly
well suited to meet these challenges.
“We were pretty comfortable taking the
extra step to find the products that our customers
wanted, something that some of
our competitors were not willing to do. It
got a lot harder, but we had a unique op-
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