| MILL INVESTMENTS (January 1, 2005–March 31, 2006) |
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| Date Announced |
Estimated Date of Completion |
Company |
Mill Location |
Description of Investment |
Product |
Annual Capacity Affected* |
Amount Invested |
| December 2004 |
Q3 2005 |
Abitibi-LP Engineered Wood Inc. |
Saint-Prime, Quebec |
New–engineered wood facility |
Value-added wood |
187.5 million square feet |
$13 million |
| 2005 |
Q1 2007 |
Ainsworth |
Grande Prairie, Alberta |
New–second line OSB plant |
OSB |
+600 million square feet; overall capacity increases to 1.3 billion square feet |
$170 million
($250 million total for all years) |
| Q3-2005 |
April 2006 |
Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. (Scarborough mill) |
Scarborough, Ontario |
Expansion–installation of new recycled corrugating medium machine |
Containerboard |
200 000 tonnes |
N/A |
| March 2002 |
2005 |
Canfor-LP OSB Corp. (Peace Valley OSB mill) |
Fort St. John, British Columbia |
New–mill and facility |
OSB |
820 million square feet |
$200 million |
| June 2005 |
2006 |
Canfor |
Fort Nelson, British Columbia |
Modernization–new dryers, emission control and other equipment |
OSB |
+115 million square feet |
$25.6 million |
| December 2005 |
N/A |
Cascades Inc.
(Fine Papers Group) |
Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville, Quebec |
Modernization–new press; optimization of mill |
Specialty paper; pulp |
N/A |
$9 million |
| N/A |
Q3 2005 |
Catalyst Paper Corporation / NorskeCanada |
Campbell River (Elk Falls), British Columbia |
Expansion–new equipment |
Pulp |
+17 000 tonnes |
$8.3 million |
| N/A |
January 2005 |
Catalyst Paper Corporation / NorskeCanada |
Crofton, British Columbia |
Modernization–upgrades to facility |
Pulp |
+21 000 tonnes |
$6.9 million |
| N/A |
Q3 2005 |
Catalyst Paper Corporation / NorskeCanada |
Powell River, British Columbia |
Modernization–conversion from newsprint to specialty paper |
Specialty paper |
N/A |
$5.1 million |
| 2004 |
May 2005 |
Interfor |
New Westminster, British Columbia
(Queensboro mill) |
Rebuild |
Lumber |
53 million board feet |
$15.1 million
($25.8 million total for all years) |
| February 2005 |
Q1 2006 |
J.D. Irving, Limited (Irving Paper) |
Saint John, New Brunswick |
Expansion–new equipment |
Specialty paper (supercalendered) |
210 000 tonnes |
$220 million over
last 3 years |
| August 2005 |
|
Kruger Inc.
(Energy Group and Publication Papers division) |
Brompton, Quebec |
New–biomass
co-generation plant |
Biomass / Pulp |
+23 megawatts |
$85 million |
| September 2004 |
2005 |
Ced-Or Forest Products Inc. |
Témiscaming, Quebec |
New–mill |
OSB |
210 million square feet |
$68 million |
| 2005 |
April 2006 |
Pope & Talbot |
Grand Forks, British Columbia |
Expansion and modernization |
Lumber |
255 million board feet (lumber);
+95 million board feet (plane) |
N/A |
| October 2004 |
June 2005 |
Tembec Inc. |
Elko, British Columbia |
Modernization–upgrade primary saw lines and secondary processing equipment |
Lumber |
+18 million board feet |
$17 million |
| November 2004 |
Q3 2005 |
Tembec Inc. - Société générale de financement du Québec (50-50 joint venture) |
Amos, Quebec |
New–laminated veneer lumber (LVL) plant |
LVL |
55.2 million board feet |
$130 million |
| January 2005 |
2005 |
Tembec Inc. |
Chapleau, Ontario |
Expansion–install new boiler and kiln |
Lumber |
+36 million board feet |
~ $14 million |
| October 2004 |
June 2005 |
Tolko Industries Ltd. |
High Level, Alberta |
Modernization–upgrade sawmill |
Lumber |
200 million square feet |
$65 million |
| June 2005 |
Q3 2007 |
Tolko Industries Ltd. |
Slave Lake, Alberta |
New–OSB plant |
OSB |
600 million square feet |
$250 million |
| 2005 |
2005 |
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. / Sundre Forest Products Inc. |
Sundre and Hinton, Alberta |
Modernization–new scanning equipment |
Lumber |
281 million board feet (Hinton);
255 million board feet (Sundre) |
~ $100 million |
| 2005 |
Fall 2006 |
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. |
Quesnel, British Columbia |
Rebuild |
Lumber |
+120 million board feet |
$46 million
($120 million total for all years) |
| 2005 |
Mid-2006 |
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. |
Kitimat, British Columbia |
Expansion–new equipment to generate electricity for mill consumption |
Electricity |
+20 megawatts |
$16 million |
| 2005 |
Early 2006 |
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (West Fraser Newsprint Ltd.) |
Whitecourt, Alberta |
Modernization–upgrade equipment |
Newsprint |
N/A |
$6 million |
| March 2006 |
2008 |
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. |
Hinton, Alberta |
Modernization–upgrade the No. 2 pulp machine to increase its speed and productivity |
Pulp |
N/A |
$20 million |
| February 2005 |
Early 2007 |
Weyerhaeuser Co. |
Grande Prairie, Alberta |
Modernization–new recovery boiler |
Pulp |
+30 000 tonnes |
$129 million |
| March 2006 |
N/A |
Zellstoff Celgar Limited
(Castlegar mill) |
Castlegar, British Columbia |
Modernization–capital plan to improve efficiency and reliability and reduce operating costs |
Pulp |
+40 000 tonnes |
$28 million |