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TRENDING
UPWARD By Jessica Johnson
Antlers, Oklahoma wasn’t known for large-scale sawmilling—until Teal-Jones came to town.
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ANTLERS, Okla. hroughout the years the farthest west southern yellow pine mill in the country has had three owners, and Mill Manager Dan Anderson has been there through it all. So, when The Teal-Jones Group came down in 2014 and purchased the relatively unknown entity in Oklahoma, folks were skeptical; but the Jones family quickly proved they were there for the right reasons. More recently Teal-Jones has expanded
its SYP footprint with the acquisition of two mills in Virginia, but Antlers was their first. “It has been nothing but positive for this place,” Anderson says. “They want to employ people and it’s been a good company to work for. Owners Tom and Dick Jones care about each individual they employ. I think as a whole everybody feels that way when they work for Teal-Jones.” Having a caring ownership meant Anderson saw his staff step up a little bit more, saying his management group in Oklahoma is a very tight family-like group, and it matched culturally with the corporate operations. It greatly helped morale when the Jones family began investing in Antlers and really putting faith in the mill. “There’s more to come,” Anderson adds of the already lengthy completed project list. “It’s the
O ne of the latest projects in Antlers, a new American W ood Dryers continuous dry k iln, featuring a single-pass design that uses internal dampers and baffl es to control heat fl ow as lumber passes from one section to another
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