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degrees Celsius and can accommodate 12,000- “A lot of the wood that we have for the music
14,00 boards. Propane is its main heat source. industry is all local. Our weather wood products,
which is a product that looks like old barn wood —
SOURCING THE WOOD all that wood is local,” says Lennon.
The wood that ThermalWood Canada treats comes “We purchase all our decking and siding — because
from its sister company, DJ Smearer Inc., a sawmill we’ve got bigger volumes — some of that will come
and lumber yard that provides specialty lumber. from Ontario, Quebec, New York and Pennsylvania.
Located in Belledune, New Brunswick, it specializes We use a lot of ash, and we don’t have any in New
in birdseye and curly maple logs and lumber in Brunswick. There’s some in Nova Scotia, but in
different grades. Dale Smearer runs the company. Nova Scotia they cut it all up in 8-foot lengths. Our
clients always want longer ones so we need to go
“He’ll saw all the wood, he dries all the wood at outside to be able to purchase those.”
his location and brings it down to us, we thermally
modify it, then ship it back to him, then he cuts BEHIND-THE-SCENES WORK
it all up in components and then we take care of
marketing and selling it,” says Lennon. The COVID-19 pandemic caused ThermalWood
Canada to close up shop for a few weeks in the
The actual source of the wood ThermalWood spring, but it remained open virtually and offered
Canada works with is local. customers curbside service. Now the company is
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