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Hardwood Saw Mill reopens under new ownership OLLA, La. (KNOE) - The Hardwood Saw Mill has reopened with new owners. Businessmen Magruder and Alex Kirkland from Jackson, Louisiana have purchased the mill after the previous owners, Hunt Forest Products, closed it a couple weeks ago. Kirkland say over 30 employees lost their jobs. 22 of those have been rehired and they are currently looking to fill the other positions. “It’s a good feeling and we had a sign up there at the mill and and you could tell you could feel it,” Kirkland said. “Everybody was was excited and and was grateful to keep their job. It’s neat, you know, and we certainly, you know, enjoy giving people their jobs and and and happiness and being able to stay home. You know that does matter to us.” Jeff Zeringue from the Louisiana Forestry Association echoes that sentiment saying that a permanent closing of the mill would have been devesting for Olla. “Any rural town that has a mill nearby or in it is really is hit hard when that mill closes down. When it opens up, it’s a great opportunity to keep them in that area and live close to home,” Zeringue said. The new owners are planning on adding ten additional jobs with a new industrial mat plant built onto the mill. “Actually, you know, obviously it’s a sawmill and we’ll continue to do some things the same way that that they did it, but you know our our line of business is industrial. The crane mats. The pipeline mats. Board Road pipeline skids. That’s that’s really our business that’s what we do.” Copyright 2026 KNOE. All rights reserved.