Canfor Corporation said Wednesday it will be temporarily curtailing operations at three British Columbia mills due to log supply constraints, log costs and current market conditions.
Canfor's sawmill in Vavenby will be curtailed for six weeks from February 11 to March 22. In
addition, Canfor's sawmills in Houston and Mackenzie will be curtailed for one week each during the first quarter.
The curtailments will translate into about 40 million board feet of reduced production, the company said, and comes in addition to about 150 million board feet that was reduced during the fourth quarter of 2018 and early in the first quarter of 2019.
According to Madison's Lumber Reporter, random length kiln dried Western spruce pine and fir 2x4s were selling for US$346 per thousand board feet as of Monday, down from US$514 a year ago.
Canfor has 13 sawmills in Canada, with total annual capacity of approximately 3.8 billion board feet.
