Max Taubert, owner

Max got his start in 1976, working with reclaimed materials on various salvage projects. In 1985, he founded Duluth Timber Co. after purchasing the rights to the timber salvage from the Arrowhead Bridge, a wooden trestle and steel drawbridge built in 1927 to connect Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin. Duluth Timber has since moved some 40 million board feet of wood, handling such large-scale salvage projects as the Long-Bell Sawmill in Longview, Washington, once the world’s largest douglas-fir mill. In 1998 when Bill Gates of Microsoft Corporation built his home in Washington State, Duluth Timber supplied his contractors with reclaimed lumber framing.