Following in the footsteps of other family businesses that have moved into the mass timber market, Freres Lumber has taken the entrepreneurial leap into a new product line called mass plywood panels (MPP).
Tyler Freres led my International Mass Timber Conference group on a tour of the new facility at his family’s plywood plant in the small town of Lyons, Oregon, about 20 minutes from the state capital in Salem.
“We have been making veneer since the 1950s,” Freres said. “And my grandfather first started in the sawmill business in the 1920s.”