About

In 1961, the Jacobson Lumber Company of Port Arthur, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) installed one of the first pressure treating plants in Ontario using water-borne preservatives.

In 1974, members of the ownership group of T.F.I. purchased Jacobson Lumber, and two years later relocated the treating facilities to Acton, Ontario. The business operated there as Toronto Wood Treating for a dozen years, but by the late 1980s the rapid growth of the residential market for treated wood products called for a much larger facility to service customer requirements.

In 1988 Total Forest Industries was created to service this need. Built in a 300 acre business park in Hagersville, Ontario on a former military airbase, the design and purpose of the new plant was focused on three objectives – to achieve great efficiency in its treating operations, to maximize product quality through process control and to meet or exceed all environmental requirements, both existing and forecasted.

Over the coming decades T.F.I. never wavered in its commitments to these three objectives. We have continually invested in new and better technology as it has become available to both enhance production techniques and to bolster our quality assurance mandate. We have built new structures that allow us to exceed environmental requirements for post-treatment drying of freshly treated wood.

In 2012 T.F.I. introduced MicroPro Sienna® Treated Wood to its customers. This leading edge preservative system has since gained a dominant position as the first choice of Ontario consumers for all outdoor building projects involving pressure treated wood.

In September 2016, T.F.I. was acquired by CanWel Building Materials Group Ltd.

In 2021, CanWel was rebranded as Doman Building Materials, and throughout 2024 we will see a transformation of TFI into Doman Treated Wood.