The present location, at 525
McClelland Street, Salem, Virginia has office and manufacturing
space of approximately 132,200 square feet and additional lumber
storage facilities of about 22,300 square feet, on a 60 acre
site.
Mr. James and some of the early management team envisioned the
idea of a package of materials that would be available from one
source. These materials were all to be of high quality and
arranged in attractive designs that were structurally engineered
and quoted with the maximization of standard materials. This idea
of "Packaged Homes" was born in the late sixties and soon we were
designing our own line of homes called TrussMark® Homes. These
homes were offered with new technology, locally inspired design
ideas, sound structural engineering, complete building plans, and
accurate material quotations. Timber Truss was able to combine
this type of product with good personal service and quality sales
representation to continue the growth of the company to the
present time.
The TrussMark® Home program gained a reputation for having quality
engineering, design, and great value. We gained a reputation for
being prompt with our deliveries and accurate with our
manufactured products and material quantities. We have shipped to
a total of 12 different countries including Russia, Germany,
Spain, Japan, Korea, China, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Mexico, Chile,
and Cyprus. We have gained valuable experience in the art of
loading containers and processing export work orders, as well as
working in metric measurements and in foreign languages.
We celebrated the grand opening of our new showroom in the fall of
2000. Our new 6000 square foot showroom serves as an educational
building center as well as showcase for many of the products that
we manufacture and sell.
Staff
In January of 2001, Gary Saunders was
promoted to President of Timber Truss Housing Systems, which was formally
occupied by the owner W. A. (Al) James. The president is assisted by
Executive Vice President, Loren McGarrahan; Vice
President of Manufacturing, Paul Emanuelson; Vice President of Purchasing,
Terry Graham; and Chief Financial Officer, Sarah Alfano. Timber Truss maintains
many professional management employees with degrees in Architecture, Building Construction,
Civil Engineering, Math, Forestry, Wood Science, Accounting, Business,
Computer Science, Architectural Technology, and
Biological Systems Engineering.
Timber Truss employs about 200 people
and many have been with the company for 20 years or longer. We feel that
the strength of Timber Truss lies in each of our employees and the dedication
that they have to the company. Each foreman has been in place for at least
10 years, or in many cases, much longer.
Technology
We have highly automated methods of
production and excellent production machinery in all phases of our operation.
We use some of the latest equipment in automatic computer sawing, jigging,
pressing, and automatic stacking of wood floor and roof trusses. We are
very computer literate with around 50 PC operators experienced on many types
of software in engineering, design, export, sales and accounting. We have
a wide array of experience with most computer software programs in today’s
business world. The engineering staff is using a highly specialized truss
design program written just for the wood truss industry. Our delivery
department has expertise in local delivery using a fleet of trucks,
tractors, trailers, and forklifts, and in exporting using multi-mode containers.
Timber Truss is a third party inspected production facility under the regulation
of the TPI (Truss Plate Institute), which is the governing body of the
truss industry. Only a small percentage of fabricators subject themselves
to these very rigid quality control specifications of the third party inspection
with TPI. We are very proud of Timber Truss and welcome any inquiries to
our present or past customers, foreign or domestic.
In addition to Timber Truss's current highly
advanced automated production procedures, we now have a new wall panel machine
that will allow us to construct a higher quality wall panel in a shorter period
of time. The new machine was especially designed for Timber Truss and is
partially computer controlled. |
