TMI Forest Products, Inc. formerly known as Tubafor Mill, Inc.

TMI Forest Products, Inc., formerly Tubafor Mill, Inc., was founded over 60 years ago in Morton Washington as a railroad tie mill. In those days Morton was known as the “Tie Capital of the World”. In later years the company began producing 2x4 studs for the building industry. This is how the company acquired the unique “Tubafor” name.

In the late 1960’s, Tubafor Mill began manufacturing Western Red Cedar fencing material, mostly posts and rails. At that time, just the downfall material was used to produce fence boards. By the mid 1970’s they moved towards producing Western Red Cedar fence boards exclusively, eventually curtailing post and rail production entirely. The Probyn Group, a young aggressive group of Canadian log and lumber entrepreneurs, purchased the Morton sawmill in 1978. TMI Forest Products has since grown into the largest manufacturing company within The Probyn Group.

In the 1980’s, Tubafor Mill designed and built an additional production facility located in the Olympic Peninsula community of Amanda Park Washington. The “Crane Creek” facility produces a pre-finished fence board marketed under the brand name of “RightWood”.

For the past 15 years the company has experienced numerous multi-million dollar renovations to develop the original sawmill into the state of the art Western Red Cedar fencing facility that exists today. Tubafor Mill, Inc., presently known as TMI Forest Products, Inc., is considered the largest Western Red Cedar fence board manufacturer in the world.