In the press
What others have written about the mill.
We spend our days milling, not talking about ourselves. But over the years a few people whose job is to watch BC's forest industry have come out to the yard, asked hard questions, and written about what we do. Their words, not ours. Every link below goes to the original coverage.
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The Tyee How Monster Mills Ate BC’s Timber Jobs. An analysis of where BC’s timber jobs went, with our mill as the counter-example: a small operation that creates a job for roughly every 3,300 cubic metres of logs, where the biggest mills need more than 5,000.
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Canadian Forest Industries Building a Niche: BC Mill Sees Success Using Dry Wood. A profile of the operation and how we built a business on the dry balsam other mills will not take.
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Canadian Forest Industries San Group, Seaton Forest Products Partner to Grow Value-Added BC Manufacturing. Coverage of our lumber supply agreement with San Group, growing value-added wood manufacturing in BC from cants milled at our yard.
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Logging & Sawmilling Journal Low Grade Wood = High Grade Benefits. A feature on the yard and how we generate real value from fibre nobody else wants: dry, decadent balsam.
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Forest Enhancement Society of BC Seaton Forest Products Dry Fibre Utilization. FESBC, with the support of government, invested $2.5 million in our dry fibre utilization project: putting wood that would otherwise burn in slash piles to work instead.
Media enquiries
Writing about the mill?
We are happy to talk about salvage milling, dry balsam, and keeping forestry jobs in the Bulkley Valley. Email office@seatonforest.ca or call (250) 847-1430 and ask for the office.
Need cants, boards, or chips?
The coverage is nice. The wood is the point. Tell us what you need.