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Welcome to Boozer Lumber!
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Boozer Lumber
Boozer Lumber was founded in 1946, and is celebrating 57 years in business in 2003. In the beginning, Boozer was organized to serve contractor customers who were building many new homes in the post war years. Mr. William L. Boozer, one of the founders, and the CEO from the beginning, was an engineer, former wood shop teacher, and home builder. He combined those talents to take Boozer Lumber into manufacturing wood products for home building. One of the first ventures was a millwork shop, building cabinets, windows, shutters, and pre-hung interior and exterior doors. He built one of the first door hanging machines in SC in his back yard at night. Then came a moulding machine and a planer. These two ventures proved too small to be economic, but Mr. Boozer kept on seeking efficiencies and new ways to do things. Mr. Boozer was inducted into the SC Housing Hall of Fame in 1995 as a pioneer in home building in South Carolina.
In the early 1950's the company entered the wood roof truss business, being the first in the area to market this new product to home builders. As new technologies emerged, the company stayed on top and expanded production. Then wall panels were added about 1959, and then total ‘packaged' homes using pre-built walls (panels), pre-assembled roof trusses, and pre-cut cornice and trim.
The company added consumer sales in the 1970's, and then in 1979, the original real estate, which had grown to 9 acres and 100,000 square feet of buildings was sold to the SC Highway Department to make way for an interstate highway, I-77. The company moved to its present location, at 1400 Atlas Road and launched an aggressive expansion program which has grown to 44 acres and 250,000 square feet under roof.
