Tag: sawmill

Compared with April 2014, Canadian lumber production rose by 6.9 per cent, to 5,617 thousand cubic metres. Lumber production by sawmills in Canada decreased 0.7 per cent from March, said Statistics Canada Thursday. Sawmills shipped 5,434 thousand cubic metres of lumber in April, down 0.9 per cent from March.

Hot weather and cool markets in China have resulted in the almost total closure of Skeena Sawmills, Terrace, BC’s, only large sawmill, according to the Terrace Standard Friday. A skeleton crew of 10 people from what was a 90-person workforce is left working. The mass layoff will last at least a month, said Mill official…

Western Forest Products, Weyerhaeuser, and Interfor all this week announced sawmill upgrades or added shifts. Sawmill Upgrades Nanaimo, BC’s, Western Forest Products is spending $30 million to upgrade three Vancouver Island sawmills, as part of a $125-million capital plan by the company to become more competitive and line up new markets. The Duke Point, BC,…

Tl’oh Forest Products, out of Fort St. James, BC, will be closing its doors as of July 31st, putting 43 employees out of work, according to 250News Wednesday. The  plant produced finger-joint  products, but  the company says  there has been “a fundamental shift in markets that  does not allow the business to remain viable”.” The…