Bacon Veneer is not what happens when your breakfast meat spatters all over the kitchen. Bacon Veneer, the common name for R.S. Bacon Veneer Company, produces and imports decorative and architectural quality specialty veneer products for distribution to architectural, automotive, and other industries. The company also buys and sells logs from such species as American walnut, maple, white oak, rift red oak, birch, African cedar, aspen, and cherry. It has offices in the US (North Carolina, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, New York) and in Alberta, Canada. Robert S. Bacon and his wife Julia founded Bacon Veneer in Chicago in 1898.

Rex Lumber is a king of the wholesale hardwood and softwood products distribution business. It sells mahogany, cypress, oak, pine, and a dozen other hardwood and softwood lumber types. Rex Lumber sells its products (mouldings, millwork, and cut lumber) to woodworkers, retailers, store fixture manufacturers, and others for use in manufacturing applications. The company's largest mill is located in South Windsor, Connecticut, and it has other facilities in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia. Rex delivers lumber by truck all along the eastern seaboard and ships lumber to the Midwest and West Coast regions of the US via contract carriers; it also exports lumber overseas.

Ridgeons Group has high hopes for supplying timber and other building materials for customers in the East Anglia region of the UK. The company distributes such products as bathroom and kitchen supplies, flooring, paint, plumbing products, and power tools. Ridgeons also rents equipment, including cement mixers, garden machinery, and basic carpentry implements. Founded in 1911, the company serves the construction and home improvement markets from its some 20 branch locations.

Robbins Manufacturing puts most of its efforts into its construction materials operations. Through its lumber group, the company supplies pressure-treated southern yellow pine, spruce, plywood, and OSB (oriented strand board) to customers including treating plants, retail yards, and truss and pallet manufacturers. The division has lumber and distribution facilities in the eastern and midwestern US and markets its products nationwide. Robbins Manufacturing also operates in other construction-related realms.

Rocky Top Building Products produces pressure-treated lumber and engineered wood for residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, marine, and recreational applications. The company's products include dimension lumber, decking boards, railing, beams, lattice, and related fastening systems. The company operates facilities in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and sells its products to professional builders and do-it-yourselfers through dealers in about a dozen northeastern and mid-Atlantic states. A wholly owned subsidiary of the Franklin Group, Rocky Top was established in 1977.

Ron Jones Hardwood Sales produces kiln-dried and green Northern Appalachian hardwood lumber for distribution within the US and for export container shipping. Species used to make its lumber include cherry, red and white oak, hard and soft maple, hickory, yellow birch, beech, ash, poplar, and basswood. The company operates a lumber yard with a capacity of more than 3 million board ft. in Franklin, Pennsylvania. It also has 300,000 board ft. kiln capacity there. President Ron Jones and other members of the family own and operate the business.

Rosboro Lumber is deeply rooted in building supplies. The company produces a wide variety of products, including studs and plywood for the homebuilding market, laminated beams and frames for heavy construction, and hardwood door and window frames through subsidiary Washington Hardwoods. The company owns timberlands in western Oregon; it also buys timber from other public and private land owners. Rosboro operates about a half-dozen production facilities. It sells its products to customers in the US, Canada, Latin America, and Japan. A group of about 60 investors owns Rosboro. T. W. "Whit" Rosborough founded the company as a small lumber mill in the 1930s.

Roseburg Forest Products has branched out as a diverse producer of wood products. Formed in 1936, the company produces specialty panels (melamine, particleboard, and vinyl laminates), engineered wood products (joists, beams, and rimboards), and plywood products such as siding and concrete forming. Its products are available through dealers, home centers, and wholesale distributors. Roseburg manages more than 700,000 acres of timberland in California and southern Oregon. The company has more than a dozen manufacturing facilities in the Northwest and Southeast. Heirs of philanthropist Kenneth Ford, who established the Ford Family Foundation, own and lead the company.

Rougier has been stacking up wood-product holdings in Europe and Central Africa for more than 70 years. It subsidiaries in Cameroon, Republic of Congo, and Gabon cut and process tropical timber into logs, sawn timber and plywood, which is shipped worldwide. Two subsidiaries in France, Rougier Sylvaco and Rougier Panneaux, import tropical timber and plywood, respectively. Europe accounts for more than half the company's revenue and Asia covers about a third. The company sells African species, including Kosipo, Kotibe, Longhi, Niove, Ozigo, Pao Rosa exclusively.

Sheoga Hardwood Flooring and Paneling makes prefinished and unfinished flooring and paneling from hardwoods, including ash, beech, hard maple, walnut, hickory, and red and white oak harvested from the Appalachian region of the US. The company also offers dense Brazilian cherry prefinished hardwood flooring and wood paneling. Sheoga air-dries its lumber for several months and then kiln-dries it before milling it into hardwood products. The company began operations in 1982.

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