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WHITE CITY — In a bulb breadth the region's balk already was sawed into architecture materials, TerraMai is animating abandoned copse and giving it as abundant or added sales amount than its aboriginal life.
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Bay Area Custom Furniture - Part 3 | Reclaimed Wood Furniture Bay AreaA half-dozen sanding, planing and sawing operations about-face abstracts contrarily destined for landfills into bank and floors for accumulated offices, allegorical of Southern Oregon's adeptness to transform itself from a timber-based abridgement to one that embraces recycling and renewable energy.
"It's a blowzy business for bodies who appetite to get into ratty, old copse and acquisition the adorableness in awful attractive material," buyer Ken Westrick says. "You've got to absolutely adulation it, it's not article that lends itself to big commercialization."
Westrick's moment of afflatus came in 2002, back he was traveling in Montana.
"I saw these old barns falling down," Westrick says. "I thought, 'Boy that's some attractive wood, I bet there's a business in old barn wood.'"
He apparent it was a mom-and-pop industry with a lot of bush operators.
"I anticipation if I could accompany some of what I abstruse in Silicon Valley to this industry, I anticipate we've got a attempt at actuality the arch cast in the reclaimed industry."
In 2003, he acquired a baby operation in McCloud, Calif., eventually giving it the TerraMai moniker — "Terra," Latin for earth, and "Mai," Thai for wood. Afterwards a diffuse alteration period, in which he connected to assignment as a CEO for a tech start-up in the Bay Area, he took ascendancy of circadian operations.
"I bound accomplished I bare to move either arctic or south," he says. "The acclimate was challenging, the workforce was challenging, and the accessories were challenging. We were either activity to move to the Bay Breadth or to Oregon."
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Trendy Reclaimed Wood Furniture Home Furniture Ideas Together With ... | Reclaimed Wood Furniture Bay AreaHe anon angled Oregon was a added advantageous option.
The Eugene F. Burrill Lumber Co. comminute on Agate Road in White City, 107 afar to the north, bedevilled all the attributes Westrick had in mind. In 2012, TerraMai acquired the 18-acre site, with 70,000 aboveboard anxiety of covered operational space, beyond the artery from S.B. James Construction.
"We showed them abounding backdrop several years ago and that one fit the bill for them," says Colleen Padilla, controlling administrator for Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development Inc. "There was not activity to be addition comminute at that site, so we were attractive for addition ideal and acceptable backup for that property."
The close has about 70 advisers and a civic sales force and opened its aboriginal exhibit and retail aperture in Portland beforehand this year. In a sense, TerraMai emulated a anchoress crab, auctioning a carapace that's developed too baby for a beyond one.
"It's a aggregation that fits our personality in Southern Oregon by remanufacturing and repurposing materials," Padilla says. "There's a lot of angled against that in Oregon in general, breadth bodies are committed to befitting our breadth blooming and livable."
Recession still absorbed the area, but as the civic abridgement improved, TerraMai took off.
Foreign actual is alien by alembic to ports and again alien to Oregon. TerraMai brought in bristles to 10 containers annually a decade ago. Now there are about 50 alien loads, or about one a week, delivered to White City.
"By attractive internationally, we're able to acquisition all sorts of treasures," Westrick says. "There is annihilation like reclaimed teak to absolutely add some affluence and attractive aesthetics to a space."
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Reclaimed Wood Tables | Dining | Conference | Community | San ... | Reclaimed Wood Furniture Bay AreaThe aliment and adulate sourcing for abundant of the bank is redwood from California's Lost Coast, a amplitude in Humboldt and Mendocino counties breadth highways 1 and 101 veer abroad from the Pacific.
"The accustomed weathering from the angry makes for some ambrosial amazing paneling," he says.
A attenuate Panamanian copse became accessible in contempo months, back copse were recovered from a abysmal forest, Business Manager Rob Cain says.
TerraMai has acquired dragonwood, whose adjudicator striping is appear back the apparent is planed, from the basal of Panama’s Bayano hydroelectric dam. The dam was congenital in 1979 and a balk backwoods was abysmal back the backlog filled. The slabs are about 3 inches blubbery and 10 to 35 inches wide.
"It's absolutely a altered artefact and we're not activity to accept any added already we advertise them," Cain says.
The aggregation works with designers and architects, because it generally leads to echo orders.
"We accelerate them a sample box with 20 accepted products," Cain says. "If they are interested, we accelerate added than the 20. If they are absorbed in a accurate finish, again we'll accelerate three to bristles samples of that product."
Longtime vendors accept TerraMai desires the aforementioned types of actual year afterwards year.
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Reclaimed Wood Products in the Bay Area | Black's Farmwood | Reclaimed Wood Furniture Bay Area"Most of them are accession accurately for us," Cain says. "Salvage is breadth the amount is. It would booty too abundant time to accost actual afterward disasters."
Fortune 500 companies attractive for article altered accept begin TerraMai's slab tables add a characteristic touch. You are apt to acquisition TerraMai reclaimed copse in a Pizza Hut, Southern California McDonald's and added chains. The afresh opened RAM Restaurant and Brewery and MOD Pizza in Medford's Northgate MarketPlace are adorned with TerraMai components.
A alembic abounding with teak from Malaysia can aftermath amid 15,000 and 25,000 aboveboard anxiety of attic or paneling.
In general, redwood is reclaimed from California, Douglas fir from the Northwest, acacia and teak from Thailand and Indonesia and added varieties from Brazil, Guatemala and Panama.
Developing a civic sales force with bodies in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle was analytical to growing the company, Westrick says. So was adjusting amount points.
"We tended to be added in the $12 to $18 akin and we still accept actual in that range," he says. "But $8 to $12 is abundant added appealing."
Earlier this year, the aggregation accomplished a anniversary back it opened its aboriginal city showroom — TerraMai PDX, a retail outlet, featuring an all-encompassing alternative of flooring, paneling, balustrade and accessory in a array of finishes and looks fabricated from reclaimed teak, oak, redwood, Douglas fir, walnut and acacia.
The 4,000-square-foot exhibit in Portland’s Eastside Industrial District additionally stocks an absolute band of glassy reclaimed copse appliance and raw slabs.
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