Great Southern Wood Preserving ain't no coward but its flagship product sure is yella. Great Southern Wood markets its pressure-treated pine for decks, fences, and landscaping projects under the YellaWood brand; other brands include N-Durz, FlameFreez, and RainWood. The company produces and distributes appearance-grade boards, dimensional lumber, heavy timbers, posts, fence panels, wood-alternative decking systems, and other specialty items. It operates about a dozen treating plants mostly in the Southeast. Products are then shipped to lumber yards and building supply stores. Great Southern also has its own trucking company, Greenbrush Logistics. The company was founded in 1970 by president and CEO Jimmy Rane.

A.P. Hubbard Lumber manufactures lumber and lumber products for the construction industry. Its offerings include air- and kiln-dried lumber made from cypress, hardwoods, softwoods, and eastern white pine, as well as engineered wood products such as glue-laminated timber, rim board, wood deckinh, sheathing, and framing lumber. The company distributes its products in the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland. A.P. Hubbard Lumber was founded in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1952.

Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies (AERT) can turn recycled waste into building materials. The company specializes in processing and converting scrap plastic and wood fiber waste into outdoor decking and fencing systems and window and door components. Its products are mainly used in residential renovation and remodeling by homeowners, homebuilders, and contractors as a greener alternative to traditional wood and plastic products. AERT markets its products under such names as ChoiceDek and MoistureShield; ChoiceDek is sold to home improvement retailers such as Lowe's through an agreement with distributor BlueLinx. The founding Brooks family owns about 26% of AERT.

AHI Linden Lumber has the goods for your sweet home Alabama. Also known as Linden Lumber, the company specializes in southern hardwood lumber, namely red oak, white oak, and ash. It can produce as much as 80 million board ft. of these species annually, placing Linden Lumber among the top producers in the South. However, the housing downturn and subsequent financial crisis hurt the company hard with a decrease in demand and lowered sales. Private equity firm H.I.G. Investments recapitalized Linden in 2008, but by the end of the year the lumber company had laid off most of its workforce. The company is undergoing a restructuring of its product line and operations to keep afloat.

Alamco Wood Products manufactures structural glulam (glued laminated) timber products in a broad range of shapes such as arches, beams, trusses, and curved members for construction projects from church ceilings, park shelters, and covered patios to bridges, trusses, and electrical and telecommunications utility poles. The company also offers prefabricated glulam products. Its clients include utility companies, churches, schools, parks and other entities that utilize wooden beams in their structures. Alamco is owned by Bell Lumber & Pole.

American Hardwood Industries (AHI) produces and exports lumber manufactured in some nine sawmills and operates sales offices in the eastern US. It markets products under the names Augusta, Blue Triangle, Graham Lumber, and Rossi American Hardwoods, as well as Montebello Flooring. Founded in 1955, the company exports Appalachian and northern hardwood logs, lumber and flooring to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Rossi American Hardwoods and Hardwood Lumber Manufacturing merged in 2007 to create AHI. In 2009 Augusta Lumber acquired most of AHI's assets, with the new company retaining the American Hardwood name (Augusta became AHI's subsidiary). John O'Dea, former president of Augusta, is head of the new company.

American Walnut Company manufactures hardwood lumber, walnut gunstock blanks, and other wood products. The company gets its logs from species that include American black walnut, red oak, white oak, soft maple, hard maple, pecan, ash, and cottonwood from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Its plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, plant annually produces more than 3 million board ft. of lumber. Subsidiary Dyrnamic Research Technologies produces handgun and rifle ammunition for hunting and law enforcement. Other offerings include export packaging and in-house freight forwarding. The firm traces its roots to 1889. American Walnut Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2010.

American Wood Moulding manufactures and distributes wood mouldings and other millwork products throughout the world. It offers Focal Point and FYPON brand products, as well as stair parts and boards made by Sure-Wood Forest Products. Wood is supplied by company-owned or leased plantation forests in New Zealand, and American Wood Moulding operates about a dozen manufacturing facilities in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and New Zealand. American Wood Moulding is wholly owned by the family of president Matt Hagen after they bought out the 50% share in the company previously owned by Tenon Limited (formerly Fletcher Challenge Forests) in late 2006.

Amos-Hill Associates is a hardwood veneer mill. The company buys a wide range of hardwood species logs (cherry, maple, white and red oak, walnut, and birch) from merchants in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Canada to produce its veneer products. Amos-Hill also works in affiliation with Koppensteiner Veneers, which is controlled by Amos-Hill's co-owner Wolfgang Koppensteiner, to serve the German market. President Richard Wertz co-owns the company he and other investors founded in 1982.

Anthony Forest Products first logged on well before the computer age. The company, which began in 1916, obtains its timber from more than 90,000 acres, maintained according to Sustainable Forestry Initiative policy, in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Anthony Forest Products then processes the timber into lumber and wood chips at mills located in the same three states. The company operates engineered wood laminating plants in Arkansas and Georgia, and, through a joint venture with Domtar, it produces I-joists under the Power Joist name at a plant in Canada. Anthony's Power Log products are used for log-home construction. Anthony Forest Products is owned by the fourth generation of the Anthony family.

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