From wooden fruit boxes to telephone poles and finger-joint boards, the Gorman Brothers company has managed to survive and grow for 75 years in the Okanagan by developing niche and specialty wood products. The family-owned wood business, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary in business this year, recently started a new chapter in its long, steady growth story when it acquired a sawmill and forest tenure from Weyerhaeuser for $120 million. The acquisition includes the former Weyerhaeuser sawmill in Princeton, which has been rebranded as Similkameen Forest Products, and forest tenure totaling 682,000 cubic metres. …Until the recent purchase of the Princeton mill, Gorman Brothers was one of the few sawmillers in B.C. that did not produce conventional structural lumber like two-by-fours. It produces mainly “appearance grade” interior and exterior boards for home finishing and renovation – ceiling and soffit boards, wainscotting and trim, decking and siding.