Engineered Forest Products

Long term timber resource
- Ideally located to utilize 3.2-million acre North Maine Woods resource – an association of industrial forest owners – directly accessed via Golden Road
  5.6-million acre woodshed within 90-minute drive of Millinocket
Forest Ownership and Certification
- 93% of Millinocket woodshed privately owned
- State-wide, 54% of forestland owned by large landowners
- Nearly 50% of Maine’s forests are certified (2018,miIlion acres)
  SFI – 7.21, FSC – 4.86, ATFS – 0.5, with 8.35 non-duplicative
Opportunities to utilize/develop other species
- 13% of woodshed Eastern Hemlock standing volume of 5 million m3
- Underutilized species with 85,000 m3 net growth in woodshed (2019)
- Multiple efforts to test/certify use of hemlock in CLT
Golden Road
- 96 mi, no weight limit, private road – One North to Quebec border
Streamlined permitting. Business-friendly, amendable SLODA (site and land) permitting

Existing Infrastructure
- Less than 200 acres of brownfield, less than 1,200 acres of greenfield
- 126 MW of low-cost, renewable hydropower
- Direct connection with the private Golden Road
- On-site access to NBM Railways
2022 EDA Funded Infrastructure Improvements
- 34.5 KV power supply to Greenfield tenants
- Water main, fire hydrants and redundant pumps & power for site fire suppression
- Sewer installation for connection by tenants
- Renewable power distribution

Proximate access to interstate
- 12 miles from 1-95
Access to Canadian Pacific Rail (Rail spur)
Millinocket Municipal Airport
- Town owned public use airport
- Scheduled rebuild of one (4,700/1,433) (possibly two) runways in 2023

Katahdin Higher Education Center (KHEC) to tailor specific workforce development programs. KHEC is an off-campus site of Eastern Maine Community Center and the University of Maine system
Maine Department of Labor: On-the-job Training Funds

Pine Tree Development Zone (PTZ) – Tier 1 location and eligible industry sector
Business Equipment Tax Exemption (BETE)
Opportunity Zone (OZ)
Municipal Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) – Our team can navigate NMTC financing for the overall development costs of a mass timber manufacturing facility. Example: $45M investment would create a $9M-$11M subsidy for the project
Employment Tax Increment Financing (ETIF)

100% renewable hydropower
Grant opportunities- Our Katahdin to leverage grant opportunities and its relationship with architecture and higher education institutions for the expansion of the North American mass timber market
Research, testing, and product development engagement opportunities. University of Maine at Orono (less than one hour drive) is Maine’s foremost public research university with world-class engineering research facilities in CLT and related products
4 seasons of world-class outdoor recreation, including hunting, fishing, biking, hiking, boating, snowmobiling, ATVing, and skiing
High fiber optic capacity

For more information or to schedule a tour of the site, please contact info@onenorth.net.