Interfor Corporation is one of the largest lumber producers in the world. The company's

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ing operations have a combined manufacturing capacity of over 3 billion board feet of lumber with sales to North America, Asia-Pacific and

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. Interfor is based in

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, BC and employs approximately 3400 people. In May 2014, Interfor opened its corporate office for the USA south-east region at

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History

*1930s Began with a sawmill in Whonnock, BC. *1963 Incorporated as Yorkston Lumber Co. *1963 Name changed to Whonnock Lumber Co. *1967 Converted to a

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. *1967 Name changed to Whonnock Industries. *1979 Sauder Industries acquired a

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in Interfor (later transferred to the Sauder family's Mountclair Investment Corporation

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). *1988 Name changed to International Forest Products Ltd. *1995 Buy Weldwood Operation *1996 Close Bay Lumber Operation *2000 Sell Flavelle Mill *2001 Buy Primex Mills *2001 Close Fraser Mill *2002 Close MacDonald Operation/Open Sumas Operation *2004 Close Squamish Operation *2005 Buy Crown Pacific Limited Partners *2005 Buy Floragon Forest Products Molalla Inc. *2005 Close Marysville and Field Operations *2006 Sell Saltar and MacKenzie Operations *2008 Buy Portac Inc. *2008 Close Queensborough Operations *2013 Buy

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Wood Products Division *2013 Buy Keadle Lumber Enterprises Inc. *2014 Buy Tolleson Lumber Company *2014 Name changed to Interfor Corporation *2014 Close Forks/Beaver Operations *2014 Acquired properties from Simpson Lumber Company *2015 Buy Monticello Operation *2015 Close Tacoma Operation *2019 Close Hammond Operation *2020 Sell Gilchrist Operation *2021 Buy Summerville Operation, and Timmins and Gogama mills.

Products

Interfor produces lumber for residential, commercial and industrial applications. It uses several species of wood in its products, including Douglas Fir,

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Western Red Cedar ''Thuja plicata'' is an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to western North America. Its common name is western redcedar (western red cedar in the UK), and it is also called Pacific redcedar, giant arborvitae ...

Ponderosa pine ''Pinus ponderosa'', commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is the ...

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and

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. It markets European Spruce and Red Pine lumber through a sales agreement with Ilim Timber.

Mills

Interfor has sawmills in

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(BC),

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, and

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. In BC this includes one sawmill (Acorn) on the Coast; two sawmills in the

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region (Grand Forks and Castlegar); and one sawmill in the Southern Interior region near Kamloops (Adams Lake). In the US Pacific Northwest, the company operates two sawmills in Washington state (Port Angeles and Longview) and two in Oregon (Molalla and Philomath). It operates the Cedarprime remanufacturing plant in Sumas, Washington. In the US Southeast, the company operates seven sawmills in Georgia (Baxley, Eatonton, Meldrim, Perry, Preston, Swainsboro, and Thomaston), two in South Carolina (Georgetown and Summerville), one in Arkansas (Monticello), one in Alabama (Fayette), one in Mississippi (Bay Springs), and one in Louisiana (DeQuincy).

Environmental Record

Interfor's woodlands and manufacturing operations have been independently certified to internationally recognized standards.

Old growth logging

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, Interfor is known to log the oldest and rarest

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trees.

Manufacturing

All of Interfor's BC sawmills are Chain-of-Custody (CoC) certified. Chain-of-Custody (CoC) certification tracks logs from harvest through the manufacturing process. In BC, Interfor mills are independently certified to meet Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) CoC certification requirements. Select Interfor mills meet Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) CoC certification requirements. Interfor's Preston and Perry Mills in the United States are certified to the SFI fiber sourcing requirements.

Awards and Accomplishments

2009 - Interfor was awarded an SFI Inc. Conservation Leadership Award for collaborative work with First Nations to ensure there is a suitable supply of monumental cedar trees to meet long-term cultural needs on British Columbia's Pacific Coast. 2007 - Interfor was a co-recipient of the World Wildlife Fund – Gift to the Earth Award to acknowledge collaborative work that led to the landmark agreements to conserve temperate rainforests in British Columbia's north and central coast regions.

Financials

Interfor has more than doubled in size since 2002Interfor corporate website http://www.interfor.com/sites/default/files/images/imce/Transformation-of-Interfor.pdf and is one of the largest lumber companies in the world.

References

{{reflist Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Manufacturing companies based in Vancouver Forest products companies of Canada Renewable resource companies established in 1963 1963 establishments in British Columbia