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West Fraser Announces Temporary Reduction

West Fraser announced temporary production curtailments during which all mill activities will be reduced for one week in June at five British Columbia sawmills: Chetwynd, Quesnel, Williams Lake, Smithers and Fraser Lake. The decision to implement this temporary...

Canfor to Close Vavenby Sawmill

Canfor to Close Vavenby Sawmill Canfor Corporation announced it will be closing its Vavenby sawmill in British Columbia this July. Canfor has reached an agreement to sell the forest tenure associated with the Vavenby sawmill to Interfor for a price of $60 million....

Interfor To Take Additional Downtime

Interfor To Take Additional Downtime Interfor announced plans to temporarily reduce production across its operating platform in the British Columbia Interior during the month of June 2019 due to a combination of weak lumber prices and continuing high log costs. The...

Taking The Pulse Of Optimism

Taking The Pulse Of Optimism Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief, Timber Processing June 2019 Once again we present the Softwood Lumber Sawmill Operations and Capital Expenditure survey results. Again, this is a survey of U.S. softwood lumber operations. We...

LDX Oversees Lundberg, Dustex

LDX Oversees Lundberg, Dustex LDX Solutions is the new name of the company formed recently that will encompass the Dustex, Geoenergy and Lundberg air emissions control equipment. Mergers of those companies in recent years allowed rapid investment in new product...

New Logstacker Ships To British Columbia

New Logstacker Ships To British Columbia Allied Systems Co., parent company of Wagner Logstackers, has delivered the first of its new generation Logstackers into Canada. The four wheel drive, 60 ton operating capacity model L4120 shipped to British Columbia in March....