The Benefits of Ghost Wood
Bitterroot Valley Forest Products has developed a patent pending process to produce a product that resembles reclaimed wood at half the price. We cut to exact specs, resulting in very little waste when the product is installed. At each step of the process, we cull defective boards. In comparison, 30-70% of reclaimed wood ends up being unusable due to rot, splits, and defects. We offer colors and textures adapted from the rustic wood barns, siding, and flooring found in historic and scenic Montana.
The perfect choice for the eco-conscious user
Montana Ghost Wood is the perfect choice for the eco-conscious user. We strive to use SFI and FSC certified lumber, beetle and forest fire killed lumber. In this respect, our Montana Ghost Wood product has truly been “reclaimed by Mother Nature.” Green principles are at work from the creation of Montana Ghost Wood to the recycling of all of our wood shavings, chips, and sawdust into animal bedding and compost. Browse the site and let us hear from you.
The concept of Ghost Wood originated with the idea of developing a product using dead standing timber and then crafting it to resemble reclaimed barn wood. Reclaimed wood has become very popular, but for many people it is not affordable and for many contractors due to numerous defects it is not an easy product to install. After countless hours of experimenting, we finally produced a piece of wood that looked identical to reclaimed barn wood. We then needed to figure out how to mass produce this reclaimed look.
More countless hours and a few hundred thousand dollars were spent on custom machines to mass produce our new product. We were the first company to mass produce a new piece of wood and make it look like reclaimed barn wood. We felt we needed to come up with a name, knowing this would be a valuable key to market our new product. Many of us at Bitterroot Valley Forest Products are native Montanans, so seeing ghost towns in Montana is nothing new to us. All of them consist of some of the most beautiful reclaimed wood colors, brown, rust, black, grey, and silver. We decided to name our new product “Montana Ghost Wood,” since our new product looked like the reclaimed wood from ghost towns in Montana.
As we were developing Ghost Wood, we became aware how ghost towns were being vandalized and the reclaimed wood stolen for building materials in new construction. We wanted our product to put an end to that.
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Read on...Environmentally Sensitive
Bitterroot Valley Forest Products is the industry leader when it comes to specialty products. We are continuely striving to add value through inovation.
Being sensitive to our environment is just another way we continue to distance ourselves from the competition.
Using dead standing timber, certified lumber, restoring our rivers, recycling our by-products, and preserving our great state of Montana are just a few ways why we are the industry leader.
