Tallwood Design Institute

Freres Lumber Co., Inc. is an Oregon-based premier wood products manufacturing company dedicated to bringing innovative, high-quality, and environmentally- sound wood products to market. Freres Lumber traces its roots to the hills above the Little North Fork of the N. Santiam River in 1922, nurtured by the patriarch of the Freres family, T.G. Freres. The company is almost one hundred years old, and remains a presence in Oregon’s Santiam Canyon today, providing local family-wage jobs and producing high-quality wood products. Freres follows sustainable management practices throughout its three operations: Freres Lumber Co., Freres Timber, and Evergreen BioPower, LCC, using 100 percent of its materials in beneficial, value-added products. Freres is committed to providing family-wage jobs and operates six plants: Plant 1: Small Log Veneer + Lumber Studmill Plant 2: Large Log Veneer Plant 3: Plywood, Sheathing Mill Plant 4: Veneer Drying Plant 5: Evergreen BioPower Cogeneration Plant 6: MPP Facility The company’s core values include a deep respect for wood, the forests our fiber comes from, and the benefits to society that wood products provide. We also have a long-running love of innovation, which motivates us to do more with less of one of the world’s most valuable resources. That innovative streak inspired us to evolve from lumber to veneer manufacturing in 1958, it lead the company into plywood manufacturing in 1998, and it encouraged us in 2007 to build a cogeneration facility that supplies renewable power to 5,000 homes. Our evolution has lead to what could possibly be the most significant new mass timber product in the world, the Mass Ply Panel, or MPP.