Canfor Announces Transition; Yurkovich Becomes CEO
John Baird, Chairman of the Canfor Corp. Board of Directors, announced today that Don Kayne, President and Chief Executive Officer, plans to retire at the end of the year. Susan Yurkovich has been announced as the Canfor’s next CEO. Currently serving as Canfor’s Senior Vice President of Global Business Development, Yurkovich brings three decades of experience working in the natural resources sector to the role, 12 of those years with Canfor. She has served in executive roles in both forestry and energy including as President and CEO of the BC Council of Forest Industries and Executive Vice President at BC Hydro.
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Article by Jessica Johnson, Senior Editor, Timber Processing January/February 2024
Some of the smartest men and women in the industry have graced the pages of this magazine—and have won the award of Timber Processing Person of the Year. They’ve all been incredibly worthy of this recognition for innovation, commitment and love of the industry they serve. Perhaps none have been quite as innovative as the introverted sawmiller from Georgia named Levi Anderson Pollard, V, whose name is on two of the patents that changed the way the sawmilling world manufactures and dries lumber (and on so many other patents as well).
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