One of only a dozen independent barrel stave mills in the United States, Perryville Stave Co. has been operating in the same location and by the same family for 75 years.

The Owen County stave mill will be the company’s fourth. Others are located in Ohio, Tennessee and Alabama. Brown-Forman Corp. spokesman Phil Lynch said staves made at the Spencer plant will be ...

Speyside Bourbon Cooperage Inc. will invest $5 million to build a new stave mill in Bath County, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Thursday. The company will create 30 new jobs in ...

MOREHEAD, Ky - Barrel manufacturing giant Independent Stave Co. (ISC) will build a $66.5 million cooperage in Northern Kentucky, creating 220 jobs. With both a stave mill and a cooperage in the ...

In September 1985, the Rogers Eversole Stave Mill was the last operating mill in Arkansas, but sadly closed after producing jobs for local residents and parts for wooden barrels for 39 years ...

For now, the 24,000 square-foot Millboro location is the only stave mill in the country by Speyside. Currently, Speyside has a cooperage — where they assemble the barrels — in Jackson, Ohio. A second ...

Stave mills produce the narrow strips of wood that compose the sides of barrels. Barrels were vital for the transportation of goods in the days before easily fabricated boxes and waterproof ...

Stave mills seem to be on the rise. Barrel and stave maker Indepedent Stave announced it would build a $66.5 million cooperage in Kentucky last year, adding 220 jobs.

Independent Stave Co. , a manufacturer of oak barrels and cooperage products, announced Thursday it will construct a mill in Batesville to produce staves for bourbon and wine barrels. The company ...

Mill Manager Chris Bailey said Speyside “created a new way of making staves” — the necessary wooden side components of bourbon barrels. The state-of-the-art mill in the Highland Business ...

Barrel manufacturer Independent Stave says it will create 220 jobs in Morehead as it plans to build a new $66.5 million cooperage. The company already has a stave mill in Morehead, and the ...

Stave mills processed either hardwood -- used to make "tight," or waterproof, barrels -- or softwood, used to make "slack" barrels, or those that were used for transporting dry goods and foodstuffs.