Cahaba Pressure Treated's Philosophy 'DO WHAT YOU SAY & DO IT RIGHT'

摘要

In 1964, brothers Joe and Kermit Stephens started a small hardwood sawmill in Bibb County, Ala., to produce crossties and mine timbers. Today, more than 50 years later, the brothers' children are still operating a thriving family-operated business that has grown into the largest single site pressure treating plant in the world. While initially the hours were long and the mill small, the brothers were committed to building the business. Soon after they started the mill, they added two creosote cylinders so they could also offer treated wood products. Eventually, they added round products such as poles, pilings and posts to the company's offerings. Today, Cahaba Pressure Treated Forest Products still produces two main product lines-round products and railroad cross-ties. It also utilizes every commercially used wood preservative on the market, including creosote, borate-creosote, pentachlorophe-nol, copper naphthenate, CCA and CCA-ET (brown).