Barron County · Wisconsin mill directory
Birchwood Manufacturing Company
Veneer & plywood mill
Birchwood Manufacturing Company is listed as a veneer and plywood plant at 38 E Messenger St, Rice Lake, WI 54868, in Barron County. If you came looking for a veneer and plywood plant near me, this is the Rice Lake end of that question: the address is published, your own is not, so the haul is yours to measure. The listing is published by Wisconsin Primary Forest Product Mills (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources); AXE USA republishes it as it stands and adds nothing to it.
Where it is
38 E Messenger StRice Lake, WI 54868
- Town
- Rice Lake
- County
- Barron County, Wisconsin
- ZIP
- 54868
- Published coordinates
- 45.50082, -91.73137
How to reach it
- Phone715-234-8181
- Websitebessegroup.com (opens in a new tab)
What this facility is
Veneer & plywood mill
A veneer and plywood plant peels or slices logs into thin sheets and presses them into panels. Veneer logs are graded hard on straightness, diameter and knots, so this is a quality market: a short butt log of the right form is worth more here than a truckload of pulpwood anywhere else.
What it takes
The record lists maple and oak as the material it accepts.
What comes off it
The source names one product line coming off this site: veneer.
No agency document says whether this facility is buying today, what it pays, the minimum load it will take, or how far it will haul. AXE USA does not check any mill's licence, insurance, ability, or whether it is still in business - this page republishes a public record and nothing more.
Reading this listing
What it means for your timber
The record has this facility taking maple and oak, and species decides more of what a load is worth than the gate it goes through. The source stops at oak without naming a species, so the white oak guide is where to start: how that wood is graded, the defects that pull it down a grade, and what it is normally cut for. The reference list adds a row on hard maple and soft maple - what buyers take each for, and the catch.
It is one of 6 facilities listed in Barron County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Barron County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 211 Wisconsin listings run across 63 counties - which is the map that decides whether a load leaves your gate for twenty minutes or two hours.
Anybody searching for a sawmill near me needs more than one gate. If this one will not take your wood, the nearest other listings are Great Lakes Veneer in Marion, 150 miles away, Bell Timber, Inc in Barron and Graphic Wood Technologies in Spooner. Distances are straight lines between the coordinates the sources published - not road miles, and not a statement that anybody is buying.
None of this says whether the gate is open or what the load would fetch - no agency document records that. A price comes out of a sale run properly: the landowner's guide to selling timber takes the steps in the order they happen, and sealed bidding puts one tract in front of several buyers at once instead of taking the first number offered.
What else is listed around it
6
Listed facilities in Barron County
1
Of them run as a veneer & plywood mill
150mi
Straight line to the nearest other veneer & plywood mill
211
Listed facilities statewide
Across Barron County the sources list 3 sawmill listings, 2 post & pole plant listings, 1 veneer & plywood mill. A facility can be listed under more than one of those, so the numbers overlap rather than adding up.
Where this listing comes from
- Source document
- Wisconsin Primary Forest Product Mills (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) (opens in a new tab)
- Edition
- May 2026
- Fetched by AXE USA
- 2026-08-18
Fields are never merged between documents: every line above came from this one record, so a listing from a source that publishes no phone number stays without one.
Other mills in Barron County
Every other listed facility in Barron County, Wisconsin.
Nearest Veneer & plywood mill listings in Wisconsin
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Birchwood Manufacturing Company - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
This listing comes from an agency document. Mills close and move between publications. If you know this one is shut, has moved, or the number is wrong, tell us and we will check it.
Got timber to move in Barron County?
This listing says where Birchwood Manufacturing Company is and what the agency records it as taking. It does not say what it will pay. Put the tract out for sealed bids and let the buyers around Rice Lake answer that themselves.