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Rex Lumber Company

Privately held

Rex Lumber is a private, family-owned southern yellow pine sawmill company that cut its first piece of wood in 1926. It runs modern high-production mills in the Alabama, Florida and Mississippi pine belt and sells dimension lumber into the framing market.

Ownership
Privately held
Headquarters
Graceville, Florida
Founded
1926
www.rex-lumber.com (opens in a new tab)

Does it buy timber from private landowners?

Yes - this company buys wood from outside its own ownership.

Rex owns no significant timberland - its mills buy their logs. Each mill has its own procurement staff, its own specifications and its own haul radius, so the buying answer comes from the nearest mill rather than from the company.

This is a company-level answer taken from what the company itself publishes. Every mill sets its own specifications, haul radius and gate price, and any of them can stop buying without notice. Confirm with the mill before you put a crew on the ground — and for a real number on a real tract, let buyers bid against each other.

What it makes and sells

  • Southern yellow pine dimension lumber
  • Wood chips and residuals

In the U.S. South

Sawmills at Troy, Alabama; Graceville and Bristol, Florida; and Brookhaven, Mississippi.

Find the mills in your county in the state agency directories.

Worth knowing

  • Not the same business as the Rex Lumber building-materials distributor in Massachusetts. Different company, different industry, similar name.

Where these facts came from

Checked against these documents on 14 August 2026. AXE USA has no relationship with Rex Lumber: nobody paid to be listed, this profile is not a recommendation, and nothing here is investment advice. If a fact disagrees with the company itself, the company is right.

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