Robbins Lumber Lists Hancock Sawmill Site For Sale

Robbins Lumber has listed its 100-acre sawmill complex in Hancock, Maine for sale with a price of $2.5 million. This site was acquired from Pleasant River Lumber in 2023 by Robbins. Included in the property sale are kilns, a planer mill, truck scale and a 42,000 sq. ft. sawmill with an attached machine shop. The property also includes a fully leased apartment building.

The plant is being marketed by real estate agents as an “excellent redevelopment opportunity, zoned for uses such as a business park or campground given its prime location adjacent to the Downeast Sunrise Trail.” There’s also potential for gravel deposits, the listing says.

Jim Robbins, Robbins Lumber President, told MaineBiz a major machine failure a couple of weeks after the company bought the Hancock plant. The company continued to operate at reduced capacity while also looking into replacement machinery. But it would have taken two years to get the replacement, leaving the mill at reduced capacity that wasn’t sustainable, he added, and thus prompted the sale.

Robbins says the company will continue to operate its other facilities elsewhere in Maine—including the other sawmill purchased from Pleasant River in 2023. Pleasant River bought the Hancock site, with annual production capacity of 13MMBF, from Crobb Box in 2011. The Sanford site was purchased from Lavalley Lumber Co. Inc. in 2012.