Bright Wood New Zealand's mission is to purchase and manufacturer quality radiata pine lumber for the U.S. millwork market. Bright Wood's Oregon operations are BWNZ's largest customer.

Bright Wood was one of the first U.S. manufacturers to seriously consider New Zealand radiata pine. The company ran its first test runs in the early 1980s and founded Bright Wood New Zealand in 1992. BWNZ was primarily a lumber buying operation in the early days.

Bright Wood continues to buy NZ radiata on the open market today. In 1996, however, the company also invested in a sawmill on the southern tip of the south island. Sawmill ownership gave Bright Wood two advantages: 1) a reliable supply chain and 2) control over production and kiln drying issues so product is manufactured to U.S. millwork standards.

Two years after the sawmill purchase, Bright Wood unveiled Bridiata Pine at the National Sash & Door Jobber's annual convention. Bridiata Pine takes its name from being the BRIghtest and whitest raDIATA available (see the Bridiata Pine page for more information). Bridiata is also different from other open-market radiatas because it is produced, graded, and dried specifically for U.S. customers.

BWNZ took another first step in 2002 when it successfully tendered to cut its own logs from blocks of plantation forests in the Otago, Southland, and West Coast regions. The move gives the sawmill more control over inbound supply while continuing to buy radiata logs on the open market.

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