By Greg Fry

Forestry woes

Canfor announces December curtailments

Nov 25, 2019 | 2:31 PM

VANCOUVER — Bad news for those working in the forestry sector.

Canfor has announced it will be curtailing operations at all B.C. sawmills at the end of December.

“All sawmills, with the exception of WynnWood, will be curtailed for two weeks from December 23 through January 3, with operations resuming on January 6,” said the company in a statement.

WynnWood will be curtailed for five days. Canfor blames the move on the high cost of fibre and continued weak lumber markets, which it says is “making the operating conditions in BC uneconomic.”

Canfor says it deeply regrets that its employees have been impacted by multiple curtailments this year adding the curtailments “are not a reflection on our hard-working employees or contractors.”

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Canfor says the curtailments will remove almost 58 million board feet of production output and are in addition to all previously announced capacity reductions.