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Canfor Corporation Company Profile
Canfor has a can-do attitude about forest products. One of Canada's largest lumber companies, Canfor products include lumber, pulp, newsprint, and plywood, which it produces through some 20 sawmills, three pulp mills, and various lumber manufacturing plants in Canada and the US. Canfor turns out 5 billion board feet of lumber, 440 million sq. ft. of plywood, and 1 billion sq. ft. of oriented strand board yearly. It manages woodlands on public lands in British Columbia and Alberta and has annual harvesting rights on about 11 million cubic meters of timberland in three provinces. The company owns about 50% of Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership, which handles its pulp operations.
Contact Information
Address: 1700 W. 75th Ave., Ste. 100
Vancouver, British Columbia V6P 6G2, Canada
Phone:604-661-5241
Fax:604-661-5235
Financial Highlights
Fiscal Year End:December
Revenue (2008):2135.80 M
Revenue Growth (1 yr):(-36.00%)
Employees (2008):6,032
Employee Growth (1 yr):(-22.60%)
Key People
Chairman: Peter J. G. Bentley
VP Finance and CFO: Thomas Sitar
VP Wood Products Marketing and Sales: Donald B. (Don) Kayne
Industry Information
Sector: Industrial Goods
Industry: Lumber, Wood Production
Top Competitors
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (lpx)
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (wftbf.pk)
Weyerhaeuser Company (wy)
 


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