Fort St. John Pilot Project
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Tembec is an integrated Canadian forest products company principally involved in the production of wood products, market pulp and papers. The Company has sales of approximately $4 billion with over 55 manufacturing sites in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia, as well as in France, the United States and Chile. Tembec’s common shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol TBC. It employs approximately 10,000 people. Tembec operates a high yield pulp mill approximately 30 km east of Chetwynd, BC. The facility produces Bleached Chemi-Thermo Mechanical pulp from Aspen, Cottonwood and softwood fibre (primarily residual SPF chips). The manufactured pulp products are marketed under the Temcell brand name, and are sold mainly in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Tembec’s Chetwynd operations employ 160 persons directly and another 90 to 100 contract employees in log yard and woodlands operations. Tembec’s Chetwynd operations consume approximately 520,000 cubic metres of hardwood timber and residual softwood chips annually. The primary source of the hardwood timber is Forest Licence A70730, a non-replaceable forest licence with an annual allowable cut of 252,000 cubic metres. The other primary source of timber is Pulpwood Agreement #13, which allows up to 200,000 additional cubic metres per year from crown land. The remainder of the required volume is purchased from private landowners, or through the BC Timber Sales Program. Residual softwood chips are purchased from local sawmills. As part of the purchase of the Chetwynd Pulp Mill from Louisiana-Pacific Ltd. in October 2002, Tembec acquired the rights to FL A60972, a non-replaceable forest licence in the Ft. St. John area with an annual allowable cut of 83,498 cubic metres per year. Tembec is currently in the process of entering into a Timber Tenure Management Agreement with one of the Pilot Project Partners (Canfor), which will enable them to manage the woodlands operations for this licence on Tembec’s behalf. In this agreement, an equivalent quantity of softwood chips will be made available to Tembec from Canfor’s Chetwynd sawmill. Tembec has obtained certification of the majority of its woodlands operations under the ISO 14001 standard. For more information, please visit our website. Click here to enter our site -
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