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Vaagen Brothers Lumber, Colville, Wa., has acquired Vaagen Timbers ULC, Colville. According to the company, "While Vaagen Bros. has always been a significant partner in supplying and supporting Vaagen Timbers, the opportunity arose for a more vertically integrated operation to bring both entities under the same ownership to recognize significant synergies. The step strengthens its ability to serve customers across a wider range of high- value wood products, while maintaining its commitment to quality through teamwork. It also reinforces its dedication to healthy forests, sustainable management, and responsible use of every log it harvests."
By bringing Vaagen Timbers into its operations, Vaagen Brothers can better align production, innovation, and resource utilization across the entire company. Going forward, Vaagen Timbers plans to steer its focus more to laminated timbers and beams, and downplay cross-laminated timber (CLT). It intends to create an efficient, profitable laminated timber business that will be reliable and steadfast throughout all market conditions.
Although the focus will be more heavily on laminated beams, the company will honor its commitments and contracts on mass timber and will be tendering mass timber jobs that best fit the facility, albeit a more specialized scope. At this time, Vaagen Timbers will continue to exist as its own operation, and all business will still be conducted under the Vaagen Timbers name. For customers, suppliers, contractors, and other third parties, Vaagen anticipates minimal changes and will work to make any transitions as seamless as possible.
Vaagen Timbers was founded in 2017 by Russ Vaagen and constructed its mass timber plant in 2019.
