Culp Lumber Company began in the early 1920s by Henry W. Culp, Sr. He owned a portable sawmill and put it in the reservoir of Lake Tillery to cut for the new reservoir. He had a planermill located at the present mill site in New London. From this small beginning a major North Carolina lumber business began.
Culp Lumber Company employs 100 people. The Company has a trucking, wood procurement as well as a sawmill, dry kilns, and state of arts planermill. On the site the Company has a new state of the arts sawmill which produces 125 million board feet of pine lumber each year. This lumber is shipped mainly to northern markets into New England and west to the Mississippi River.
Culp Lumber Company employs 100 people. The Company has a trucking, wood procurement as well as a sawmill, dry kilns, and state of arts planermill. On the site the Company has a new state of the arts sawmill which produces 125 million board feet of pine lumber each year. This lumber is shipped mainly to northern markets into New England and west to the Mississippi River.
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The H.W. Culp Lumber Company Procurement Department is responsible for procuring and delivering Southern Pine saw timber to the mill to meet the annual production of 125 million board feet. Culp Lumber Company purchases standing pine and hardwood timber stands within a 100 mile radius of New London, NC.
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Kirk Dustin
Oct 20, 2020
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Getrdone
Nov 01, 2018
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Melissa Basinger
Sep 08, 2015
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I just got off the phone with Ed Listerman with HW Culp Lumber Company. I have been run off the road three times in the last year by logging trucks, the most recent time being today. The company left two large trees leaning dangerously over the road, one of which fell and I had to pay someone to have it removed. When I discussed these issues with Mr. Listerman, he told me that there was nothing his company could do. He said that he wasn't the one that purchased this property, that I had, and it was just the risks that come from living here. He stated that the logging company would not remove the
