At Interfor’s Putnam County facility on Dennis Station Road, massive piles of southern yellow pine are backed by large mounds of sawdust and wood chips, none of which go to waste. CONTRIBUTED
Since 2019, Interfor officials said the company has spent $90 million in modernizing its Eatonton facility with hi-tech machinery like this automated sorting and stacking platform. CONTRIBUTED
A seemingly endless procession of log-hauling big rigs roll across the Interfor scales daily. IAN TOCHER/Staff
Stacked, processed lumber awaits shipping to all points throughout the Southeast and around the world from Interfor’s Putnam County operation. CONTRIBUTED
Editor’s note: The symmetry of 52 weeks in a year and 26 letters in our alphabet inspired us here at The Eatonton Messenger to embark on an alphabetical journey of Putnam County every other week this year, looking at something – or someone – unique, significant, unusual, or just plain interesting.
Logs go in, and lumber and wood chips come out, all carried by a seemingly endless parade of big rigs …
