The Softwood Forest Products Buyer - July/August 2024

Kodiak Building Partners Acquires Minnesota’s Simonson Lumber
Recently, Kodiak Building Partners, a Colorado distribution company and
building materials supplier providing various species of Softwood, revealed its
acquisition of Simonson Lumber.
Kodiak Building Partners was born in 2011 as a firm focused on supporting
locally held and operated companies that manufacture building materials, in
addition to acquiring said businesses. Across the country, thousands of people
who serve general contractors, sub-contractors, homebuilders, remodelers and
consumers are employed by Kodiak.
Simonson Lumber, offering Pine, Cedar, Hemlock, Fir and Baltic Birch for
a variety of products, started in 1913 and upholds its dedication to impressive
customer service with its varied clientele, high-quality products and innovation
through this acquisition by Kodiak Building Partners.
Kodiak intends to use this acquisition to help both companies benefit from
their family-operated philosophy, which encourages both institutions to forge
bonds that go beyond business with their customers and suppliers.
Go to www.kodiakbp.com to learn more.
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Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co. & Design Center Expands Through Truss
And Component Division
The president of the Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co. & Design Center (TTL),
Andrew Cross, recently announced that the fourth-generation, family-owned
lumber and building materials provider planned to expand through the acquisition
of NVO Construction Components assets. Based in Reno, NV, NVO Construction
Components began operating in 2021. According to published sources, they
are dubbed as a leading manufacturer of floor and roof trusses, in addition to prefabricated
wall panels, prefabricated stairs and panelized floor and roof cassettes.
According to their company website, TTL offers Pine, Cedar and Redwood. The
transaction creating Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co. Truss and Component division
will be completed at press time for this publication.
TTL was incorporated in 1931 and since then, it has grown to serve not only
Northern NV but also surrounding states. The company has opened a concepts
design center, door shop, four lumber yards and a 75,000-square-foot manufacturing
plant that serves the framing community.
According to TTL’s president, the company will continue to develop the
products currently offered by NVO, while the former NVO team promises to
continue to expand and innovate
its products and technologies
to serve the needs of framers
throughout Northern Nevada and
the nearby regions.
Visit www.ttlco.com to learn
more.
LeNoble Lumber Grows In
New Jersey
LeNoble Lumber Co., Inc.
was recently due to open a new
distribution center in Edison, NJ
to better broaden their customer
base by supplying easier access to
major transportation routes, their
modernized logistics and their all
new rail access.
The company provides lumber
species such as: Yellow Pine,
White Fir, Hem Fir, and Douglas
Fir, in addition to many others
that can be viewed on the company’s
website. They also provide
plywood, building materials and
other architectural products.
According to the company
website, LeNoble Lumber Co.
Inc., which was started by Paul
LeNoble in New York City in
1965, supplied materials for many
of New York’s motion picture
companies and it celebrated its
50th anniversary in 2015.
Matt Dienstag, co-president
of LeNoble Lumber Co. Inc. is
hopeful about the opportunities
the new distribution center will
present for their future and how
this puts them in a position to increase
customer support. Co-President
Marc Bernstein agrees with
Dienstag about the benefits of
the new distribution center, being
especially enthusiastic about the
inclusion of the rail access, which
will increase their momentum and
accuracy.
The positive attitude LeNoble
Lumber Co., Inc. has toward their
recent expansion further portrays
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