News & Specials

‎Robinson Lumber Company’s FSC-certified Cumaru (“Brazilian Teak”) flooring will be installed on the stage of the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Apparently over the years Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Garth Brooks, and others wore out the old stage! Many thanks to our distributor Jeffco Flooring and to installer Ideal Flooring for doing a great job.

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Robinson Lumber Company will exhibit its products at Stand C18, Hall 8 of the Domotex convention in Hannover, Germany, from 14-17 January 2012. If you’d like to visit us at our booth, we are pleased to offer complimentary e-tickets to the fair. Click here to download yours today.

The Port of New Orleans publication Port Record features Robinson Lumber Company in its September/October 2011 edition.

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Robinson Lumber Company participates at Timber Expo, Coventry, UK

Hank Marchal, Managing Director European Division (back row, second from right), participated in the recent Timber Expo in Coventry, UK along with the American Softwood pavilion. The debut edition of this new show ran September 27-28 and served as a good meeting point for many in the UK timber sector.

Robinson Lumber Company to attend American Hardwood Export Council European Convention in Warsaw, Poland October 27-28, 2011

Robinson Lumber will be represented by Toto Robinson and Hank Marchal at the 2011 European Convention. The Convention this year is placed under the heading “Sustainable American hardwoods – A market opportunity”. Panel topics will include discussions on how new European legislation focused on proof of legality and a new Life Cycle Assessment commissioned by AHEC may increase European market share for America’s sustainable hardwood resource.

Robinson Lumber is a long time supporter of AHEC and hopes to see many friends and customers in Warsaw.

Yesterday the US Forest Service released a long-awaited report that confirms what the hardwood industry has been saying for years: that wood is a “greener” building material than alternatives, yielding fewer greenhouse gases, improving the health of our forests and environment, and supporting hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

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As part of its 175 year anniversary, the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper honors Robinson Lumber Company’s history. RLC thanks Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson, L.L.P. for sponsoring.

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Last year, Robinson Lumber Company supplied a beautiful Nature Grade Hickory floor for the London home of architect Amanda Levete. Ms. Levete and her home are now featured in the American Edition of Vogue magazine, and our flooring figures prominently in the design element photos. Remember to keep us in mind for your next project; we’d be happy to work with you to give you the look you want.

>> See Robinson’s Hickory Flooring in Vogue

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today USDA’s strategy to promote the use of wood as a green building material. At an event this evening to launch the International Year of the Forest, Secretary Vilsack will lay out a three-part plan addressing the Forest Service’s and USDA’s current green building practices.

“Wood has a vital role to play in meeting the growing demand for green building materials. Forest Service studies show that wood compares favorably to competing materials,” said Vilsack. “In keeping with the Obama Administration’s America’s Great Outdoors conservation agenda, USDA has made a strong commitment to conserving and restoring our forests to protect watersheds, recreation, and rural jobs.”

The strategy includes the following parts:

1. The U.S. Forest Service will preferentially select wood in new building construction while maintaining its commitment to certified green building standards. USDA will also make a commitment to using wood and other agricultural products as it fulfills President Obama’s executive order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance.

2. The Secretary has asked the U.S. Forest Service to examine ways to increase its already strong commitment to green building by reporting to him on ways to enhance the research and development being done around green building materials.

3. The U.S. Forest Service will actively look for opportunities to demonstrate the innovative use of wood as a green building material for all new structures of 10,000 square feet or more using recognized green building standards such as LEED, Green Globes or the National Green Building Standard.

In carrying out this initiative, Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell issued a directive to all units this week calling for increased use of locally milled timber in all new agency buildings and facilities. Secretary Vilsack also directed the heads of all other USDA agencies to incorporate the Forest Service policy of using domestic sustainable wood products as the preferred green building material for all USDA facilities and buildings.

“Our country has the resources, the work force and the innovative spirit to reintroduce wood products into all aspects of the next generation of buildings,” Tidwell said. “As we move forward with restoring America’s forests, we are getting smarter and more efficient in how we use wood products as both an energy and green building source, which will help maintain rural jobs.”

A recent Forest Service lifecycle analysis found that harvesting, transporting, manufacturing and using wood in lumber and panel products in building yields fewer air emissions – including greenhouse gases – than resource extraction, manufacturing and using other commonly-used building materials. In fact, wood –based wall systems can require significantly less total energy for manufacturing than thermally comparable houses using other common material systems.
Research arms of the U.S. Forest Service are also experimenting with new and innovative ways to use smaller diameter timber and leftover branches and limbs for wood products, which includes nanotechnology advancements and the use of laminate technologies.

Finally, the Forest Service is also encouraging the use of current renewable energy advances, such as wood-to-energy power systems, low-impact environmental site designs, green purchasing and operation and maintenance practices. USDA is highlighting its green building policy in the Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan, the Department’s blueprint for implementing President Obama’s sustainability executive order (E.O. 13514). USDA will complete an update to that plan this June.

Robinson Lumber Company is pleased to announce that we have recently reached an agreement with Aimpex (Singapore) to be their sales representative for the European market. We will be replacing their previous agent, Ole Mellentin, who after over 50 years of distinguished service to the lumber industry has decided to take some time to enjoy the finer things in life. We wish Ole, a long-time friend of the Robinson family, all the best in his retirement and hope to provide his customers with the kind of professional service they have come to expect.

Aimpex is an exporter of rough lumber and finished products from Indonesia and Malaysia. It is owned by Meranda Chia and Teo Cheng Lai, both of whom have over 25 years experience in the lumber industry. Aimpex maintains offices in Singapore and Surabaya and manages a network of graders to inspect all outgoing production.

Below is a list of some of the products and species we currently sell into Europe:

Products
Bed Struts
Deck tiles
Decking
Edge glued and F/J Deck Supports
F/J Decking
Flooring
Industrial Flooring
Laminated Door Jambs
Laminated truck/trailer/container flooring
Laminated Window Scantlings
Lamparquet
Moldings
Rough Lumber, AD or KD
Skirting
Solid deck supports
Solid Door Jambs

Species
Bangkirai/Selangan Batu
Balau
Benuas
Bintangor
Durian
Kapur
Kayu Lara
Kempas
Keruing
Meranti
Merbau
Mixed Redwoods
Nyatoh
Palapi/Mengkulang

We look forward to offering these products to our customers across Europe and encourage you to contact us with any requirements you may have.

Thanks,

Hank Marchal
Robinson Lumber Europe

Meranda Chia
Teo Cheng Lai
Aimpex PTE LTD