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Our Owner:

Edward Robbins

Edward and Carol Robbins are the owners/operators of Ohio Valley Veneer, Inc. which was established in 1990. They started in the timber business with a logging crew and decided to expand with the purchase of the sawmill located on No Name Road in Piketon, OH. This mill was at one time owned by Ed’s father, Bill Robbins, and his grandfather, Art Barker. The Barker family had several family owned sawmills that dates back to World War II to Ed’s great-grandfather Floyd Barker, who produced lumber for the government during the war. His grandfather Oval Montgomery was also a logger back when mules were the only equipment you had to move your logs and where Bill Robbins got his start as a young boy.

Ed and Carol expanded in 1999 with the purchase of a second sawmill, located on US 23 in Piketon. He installed 3 Woodmizer LT 300 mills and produces only walnut lumber at this location today. In 2003, he started Ohio Valley Chipping, a chip mill located in Greenup, KY. Here the wood is chipped by a Morbark 83″ 4 knife chipper then is loaded onto barges and shipped on the Ohio River to Hawesville, KY. This mill produces 190,000 tons of chips annually. Once again, OVV expanded with the purchase of the Crownover mill located in Peebles, OH in 2010. This mill operates with 2 Inovec Stero Scanners, 2-8′ band head rigs, and a Cleerman 42 LP carriage for the production of 15 million feet annually.

January 2011 found OVV doing restructuring of the company and becoming OVV, Inc., Ohio Valley Employment, LLC, Ohio Valley Milling, LLC, Ed Robbins Trucking, LLC and Ohio valley International, LLC. Ed and Carol live in Pike County with their children Hope, Art and Eddie.

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