Goodwin Heart Pine is a company located in

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and specializes in

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antique heart pine and heart

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from rivers and old buildings to produce

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for flooring, stair parts and

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. Goodwin's product range also includes other

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and rare woods, including wild

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. Goodwin Heart Pine also produces precision-engineered wood flooring, from these specialty woods. The company has a unique focus of harvesting resin-saturated deadhead logs from rivers that

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felled in the 1800s, which sank due to their high

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content. The interior of the reclaimed logs is typically preserved by the tree's resin.

History

In 1976, George Goodwin began as a master carpenter and home builder. After a diver friend gave him antique long leaf pine logs found in the

Suwannee River The Suwannee River (also spelled Suwanee River or Swanee River) is a river that runs through south Georgia southward into Florida in the Southern United States. It is a wild blackwater river, about long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrog ...

for his own project, the idea to reclaim logs from rivers was expanded into a sawmill operation in

. The company became incorporated in Florida in 1984. In 2002 it received Federal

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registration for "River-Recovered" from the US Patent & Trademark Office. In 2003, George and Carol Goodwin created the

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, which was formed to educate buyers and set standards for reputable manufacturers of reclaimed woods. In 2007 the company introduced Precision

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flooring (PE), manufactured using reclaimed and sustainable woods.

Products and services

Goodwin Heart Pine's specialties include antique river-recovered heart pine and heart cypress, antique heart pine, wild black cherry and precision-engineered wood, flooring, stair parts and millwork. The company provides both river-recovered and other sustainable kiln-dried wood flooring, stair millings and lumber that meets the Florida Green Building Coalition and Leadership in Environmental and Engineering Design (

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) standards.

Awards and recognition

Goodwin Heart Pine has gained national recognition by providing the wood used for The National Wood Flooring Association's Floor of the Year in the following years: * 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2009, 2010: Floor of the Year, National Wood Flooring Association designed by DM Hardwood Designs. * 2008 Floor of the Year, National Wood Flooring Association designed by Goodwin Heart Pine Company. * 2011 Floor of the Year, National Wood Flooring Association designed by Precision Floorcrafters.

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Goodwin Heart Pine Blog
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