Maine Firewood Business Growing with Kiln, Packaging
HARMONY, Maine – Customers of Thomas Firewood can choose kiln-dried, seasoned, or unseasoned wood. It’s good to have choices. In fact, in a relatively new venture Thomas Firewood offers another option: shrink-wrapped firewood bundles for campgrounds. It’s all about...
Wisconsin Firewood Business Goes Fully Integrated by Adding Logging Operations
ANTIGO, Wisconsin – Jesse Arndt took a roundabout path into the firewood business. You might say the Wisconsin native had to go to Texas first. And for someone with no family background in the forest products industry, he now has experience in sawmilling, logging,...
Texas Company Producing Firewood To Cook Expands into New Markets
From left to right, Giacomo Puppo with Pezzolato, K.C. Stottlar with Pezzolato USA, and Greg Helfenbein, owner of Gourmet Wood® Products. FORT WORTH, Texas – Greg Helfenbein’s company, Gourmet Wood® Products (G.W.P.), is still producing restaurant quality firewood,...
Virginia Logger Has Diverse Business
BIG ISLAND, Virginia – Ridge Reaves is only eight years old, but his father, Roy, already is lining him up to become the fourth generation to run Reaves Timber – if Ridge wants to, that is. Reaves Timber is a pretty diverse business. It is located in Big Island, a...

