About Timber Products – Our History, Locations & Approach
We manufacture and deliver the high-quality wood products you can count on every day.
Company Overview
Founded in 1918, Timber Products produces a diversified range of wood products. Best known for its hardwood plywood, the company is committed to environmental sustainability and offers a fully integrated approach to manufacturing with 8 manufacturing facilities, an import division, and a nationwide logistics and transportation division.
Vision
To deliver the best customer experience in the wood products and logistics industry.
Mission
Work together to provide integrated wood products and logistics solutions to our customers.
Values
Do the right thing, be accountable, and compete
Leadership
Timber Products is a family-owned business with four generations of history.
Major Markets
Timber Products is one of the largest material suppliers to the nation’s kitchen/bath cabinet, furniture, store fixture/display and architectural millwork industries.
Natural Resources
We source from forestlands in Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Other Services
TP Logistics, a national third-party logistics service provider for a wide range of products and industries. TP Trucking, a national trucking service that transports a wide range of products, including the company’s wood products. On-site consulting services with manufacturers of cabinetry, furniture, fixtures and millwork.
Employees
Over 1,200 full-time employees nationwide.
Locations
8 manufacturing facilities:
- Yreka, CA
- Munising, MI (2)
- White City, OR
- Medford, OR (2)
- Grants Pass, OR
- Corinth, MS
PRODUCTS FOR EVERY NEED
We specialize in hardwood plywood and wood panels with decorative overlays. From veneer to ultralight MDF to particleboard, we offer an incredible variety of products. If you don’t see exactly what you need, we can custom manufacture certain products!
RESPONSIBLE MANUFACTURING
All of our products are responsibly created with the environment in mind. We continually improve processes to reduce waste. We use no-added formaldehyde (NAF) based resins or ultra-low emitting formaldehyde (ULEF) resins to reduce emissions. Our RhinoCoat prefinished panels include an antimicrobial additive that protects the panels from degradation and decay.
Company History
MORE THAN 100 YEARS IN THE TIMBER INDUSTRY
Timber Products has sustained a tremendous rate of growth for more than nine decades. We’re now one of the nation’s most diversified manufacturing resources for the highest-quality wood products.
2021
A NEW MEINAN LATHE IS INSTALLED IN SOFTWOOD VENEER MILL IN YREKA, CA
The new Meinan Lathe is the first 10’ lathe in North America with in-line green veneer composing
2020
A NEW RELOAD WAREHOUSE IS PURCHASED BY TP LOGISTICS IN THOMSON, GA
2016
AMPINE PARTICLEBAORD PLANT ACQUIRED FROM SIERRAPINE IN MARTELL, CA
2011
GONYEAS PURCHASED MICHIGAN-CALIFORNIA LUMBER COMPANY WITH 114,000 ACRES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND RE-NAMED THE COMPANY MICHIGAN-CALIFORNIA TIMBER COMPANY (MCTC)
2004
TP GRANTS PASS PURCHASED A NEW MILL AND RE-TOOLED IT FOR SOFTWOOD PLYWOOD AND HARDWOOD PLYWOOD
2000
TP MISSISSIPPI PURCHASED A NEW MILL IN CORINTH, MS, AND RE-TOOLED IT FOR HARDWOOD PLYWOOD
1993
ACQUIRED TIMBER PRODUCTS MISSISSIPPI IN CORINTH, MS FROM STATES INDUSTRIES
The facility includes a hardwood veneer and hardwood lumber facility in Munising, MI
1991
TIMBER PRODUCTS ACQUIRED SPECTRUM FROM MEDFORD CORPORATION
The facility was originally named Sel-Ply, then Color-Lam and then Spectrum
1988
TP MICHIGAN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ACQUIRED FROM CLEVELAND CLIFFS CORP
The facility includes a hardwood veneer and hardwood lumber facility in Munising, MI
1987
TIMBER PRODUCTS TRUCKING WAS INCORPORATED AND MOVED TO TABLE ROCK ROAD FACILITY IN CENTRAL POINT, OR
The new company includes White City Plywood, Tim-Ply Plywood, and Timber Products Sales Co.
1986
COMPANY RE-STRUCTED INTO ONE COMPANY: TIMBER PRODUCTS CO. LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
The new company includes White City Plywood, Tim-Ply Plywood, and Timber Products Sales Co.
1970
ACQUIRED A SOFTWOOD VENEER PLANT FROM GEORGIA-PACIFIC IN YREKA, CA
1969
TIMBER PRODUCTS COMPANY ACQUIRED JOSEPHINE COUNTY PLYWOOD CORPORATION
The facility is renamed Tim-Ply Plywood. It is a Douglas-Fir specialty plant in Grants Pass, OR
1966
TIMBER PRODUCTS COMPANY CONSTRUCTED MEDFORD PARTICLEBOARD PLANT
1965
MICHIGAN CALIFORNIA LUMBER COMPANY WAS ACQUIRED BY THE GONYEAS, PRITZKERS, PEEKS, BLODGETTS & MR. JOHN SHELK
1964
TRUCKING DIVISION ESTABLISHED AT WHITE CITY PLYWOOD
1962
TIMBER PRODUCTS COMPANY AQCUIRED WHITE CITY PLYWOOD
Yreka, CA
1949
WIL GONYEA PURCHASED UMPQUA PLYWOOD WITH JAY PRITZKER AND THE PRTIZKER FAMILY
This partnership lasted more than 60 years in various business ventures, involving four generations of Gonyeas and three generations of Pritzkers
1946
TIMBER PRODUCTS COMPANY CONSTRUCTED A PLYWOOD PLANT IN MEDFORD, OR
1940
TIMBER PRODUCTS COMPANY CONSTRUCTED A VENEER PLANT IN MEDFORD, OR
Timber Products constructed a veneer plant and a plywood plant in Medford, Oregon. In 1949, Wil Gonyea purchased Umpqua Plywood with Jay Pritzker and the Pritzker family, a partnership that has lasted more than 60 years in various business ventures, involving four generations of Gonyeas and three generations of Pritzkers.
1918
Timber Products Company founded by John Tomlin
John Tomlin started the Tomlin Box Company in 1918 and manufactured wooden boxes to hold agricultural products. Tomlin Box Company was re-named Timber Products Company in 1930.
