Western Forest Products says it is closing the Chemainus sawmill for the remainder of 2026, and will be curtailing mills in ...

Approximately 150 employees have been impacted since the mill’s shutdown in June 2025 due to weak market conditions.

Since North America is the only major lumber market that still uses imperial measurements for lumber, this would require retooling logging and sawmill operations to metric. Some B.C. mills are already ...

(RTTNews) - Canfor Corp. (CFP.TO) announced the permanent closure of its Polar sawmill in Bear Lake, BC, and the suspension of its planned reinvestment in Houston, BC, citing persistent timber ...

In the topsy-turvy world of forestry, as it is right now in BC, where sawmill/pulp mill curtailments and closures are ...