Main Eco Homes and TimberHP Recognized with 2023 Accolades!
Hancock Lumber would like to congratulate our partners Maine Eco Homes and TimberHP for their amazing accomplishment of being honored at the Governor’s Awards for Business Excellence in 2023. Maine Governor Janet Mill’s announced the recipients of the 2023 Governor’s Award for Business Excellence in early January at the Blaine House in Augusta. These awards are presented in 4 categories;
- The Innovation Award, which celebrates and recognizes business excellence through entrepreneurship and innovation.
- The Rural Revitalization Award, which recognizes contributions to the revitalization and growth of Maine’s rural regions.
- The Heritage Industry Award, which recognizes and celebrates business excellence in the agriculture, forestry, manufacturing, or marine sector.
- The Climate Leader Award, which recognizes business leadership, innovation, or excellence in mitigating climate risks or developing new technologies to combat climate change.
Main Eco Homes, a longstanding building partner of Hancock Lumber, was awarded the Rural Revitalization Award for their intensive efforts in revitalizing the Bridgton, Maine community.
“Established in 2009, the company was built with the goal of creating a healthy community – physically healthy, economically healthy, and psychologically healthy. MEH has done this by constructing more than 250 homes, 60 cottages in a 55+ community, more than 200 rental units, a health & wellness center called Soleful Health Club, a free community concert series, as well as multiple commercial buildings, with plans to construct Makers Mill Development in downtown Bridgton that includes a brewery, market café, retails shops along the river, Makers Co-op space, apartments, and office space. Also, MEH is planning to build a 66-room boutique hotel in the downtown on the river with access to Highland Lake—all efforts to help revitalize Bridgton, Maine.”
TimberHP, a new and exciting player in the sustainable insulation market, won the Climate Leader Award for their high-performance wood fiber insulation products, an alternative to the current intensive and toxic insulations used today. Our team is proud to not only be an investor, but also a supplier for TimberHP, an innovative company producing sustainable building materials in Maine! Hancock Lumber’s sawmills provide eastern white pine wood chips—a by-product produced in our white pine manufacturing operations—to TimberHP, where they are used to help make the insulation products. Innovation in Maine’s wood products industry takes patience, collaboration, and key partnerships. Team Hancock could not be more excited for the launch of TimberHP’s insulation products.
TimberHP CEO Josh Henry (Right)
“TimberHP is an innovation company in Maine’s heritage forestry products industry. They manufacture high-performing wood fiber insulation that is healthy for people and the planet. Made with renewable resources, its products are a sustainable alternative to more resource intensive and toxic insulations. TimberHP turns certified wood chips into thermal building insulation used in construction and renovation that is water-resistant, fire-resistant, and sound dampening. This renewable, fully-recyclable, and carbon storing product creates energy efficient buildings. After GO Lab, Inc. purchased the former UPM paper mill in Madison, it was later renovated in 2021 and TimberHP became the first wood fiber insulation manufacturer in North America. The mill’s revitalization utilized an otherwise aging infrastructure in Madison and created a new employment opportunity for a community with multi-generational ties to the state’s forest products industry.”
To read the full press release from the Maine Office of Business Development, please click here.