Port Blakely Companies

Our Pick for Bird of the Year: the Long-tailed Bat

Pekapeka in the running for New Zealand's "Bird" of the Year, recognising Aotearoa New Zealand's unique flying creatures

Oct 26, 2021

It’s that special season when bats are in the limelight, but this year, they are even more on centre stage as the long-tailed bat – ‘pekapeka’ in Māori – has been nominated for New Zealand Bird of the Year. While ornithologists and wildlife biologists will disagree with the "bird" part...

WholeTrees Structures & Port Blakely Bring Certified Carbon Forest Mass Timber Products to Market

Move allows AEC teams to have an even larger role in the fight against climate change by specifying carbon forest sourced wood products

Sep 21, 2021

Madison, Wisc. – Madison-based mass timber building products fabricator WholeTrees Structures is joining forces with Port Blakely, a Pacific Northwest, family-owned renewable forest products company, to provide sustainable structural mass timber products with verifiable traceability to Port Blakely’s certified carbon forest. Together, their vision is to provide the design and...

Port Blakely NZ Receives National Safety Award

Our New Zealand Forestry team recognized at the NZ Primary Industry awards

Apr 13, 2021

Port Blakely was recently honored at the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Good Employer Awards, recognizing the company as a national leader in health and safety in the forestry sector and beyond. “We are thrilled and honored to have received the Safe and Healthy Work Environment Award,” said Port Blakely Managing...

PB Joins Racial Equity Coalition

Building an equitable future for Washington state

Dec 01, 2020

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion across our business and in the communities we operate in, Port Blakely is proud to be a founding member of Washington Employers for Racial Equity (WERE). This growing business coalition launched with a commitment from 55+ companies to build an equitable...

Tackling the Climate Crisis

Ancinas Joins Forestry, Conservation and Environmental CEOs to Establish Common Ground on the Role of Private Working Forests as a Natural Climate Solution

Nov 12, 2020

SEATTLE, Nov. 12, 2020 – Port Blakely CEO, René Ancinas joined 47 environmental, conservation and forest business leaders today in announcing an agreement of principles on the important role sustainably managed forests and forest products can play in mitigating climate change. “As a family-owned company focused on cultivating a healthy...

Human Resources executive Liz Marzolf joins Port Blakely

HR veteran to drive company’s people strategy

Jun 30, 2020

Seattle, WA – Port Blakely has announced Liz Marzolf has joined the Seattle-based sustainable forest products company as Vice President, People. See the full press release.

Partnering on Blakely Harbor Cleanup

Port Blakely is in the early stages of working with the Washington State Department of Ecology to investigate and determine a cleanup plan for a former sawmill site on Bainbridge Island.

Mar 06, 2020

Blakely Harbor Park is located on the site of a former sawmill that operated from 1864 until 1923. Over that period, the mill was run by several companies, including the Port Blakely Mill Company. At one point, it was one of the world’s largest sawmills, producing cut lumber and shipping...

Oregon Timber & Conservation Agreement

Governor Kate Brown Brokers Unprecedented Agreement Between Timber and Environmental Groups

Feb 10, 2020

Port Blakely is proud to be a signatory of the Oregon timber industry and conservation communities’ MOU and we look forward to working together to ensure the long-term sustainability of our working forests and the rural communities and ecosystems they support. Our thanks to Governor Brown for championing a collaborative...