Townsend R-Y Timber Mill Included in Sale
 | Author:
Nancy Marks, Reporter
Nancy Marks: MT43 News Secretary and News Editor |
Townsend R-Y Timber Mill Included in Sale Nancy Marks, Reporter R-Y Timber’s Townsend mill definitely will be included in a change of hands, Dan Richards, the company’s general manager, told MT43 News.
He said six parties are interested in buying the company and he speculated that it would sell within the next month. He said 45 employees are working at the Livingston plant, but only three currently work at the Townsend site. There are two in the office and a millwright who is doing general cleanup that must be done before a sale can close,” Richards said.
Townsend’s mill office closed on February 17 this year. The mill shut down its lumber manufacturing in January of 2020 after a fire burned much of the equipment. Seventy people lost their jobs at that time. Some moved to Livingston to work in R-Y’s mill there. Others found new jobs or retired. After that, at the Townsend plant, people could buy only firewood.
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Image 1 Caption: Dan Richards, general manager of R-Y Timber in Livingston, stands next to the company’s new planar machine that is being assembled at the sawmill’s property on U.S. Highway 89.
