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All of Interfor's BC sawmills are Chain-of-Custody (CoC) certified. Chain-of-Custody (CoC) certification tracks logs from harvest through the manufacturing process. In BC, Interfor mills are independently certified to meet Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) CoC certification ...
West Fraser Timber was founded in 1955 by three brothers from Seattle: Samuel Kendall Ketcham, Henry Holman ("Pete") Ketcham Jr., and William Peters Ketcham. [5] Their father was Hank Ketcham, who played college football for the Yale Bulldogs and was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame.
Interfor owns 13 sawmills in the US – nine in the South and four in the Northwest. It owns five sawmills in Canada. The growing trend of Canadian ownership of US mills is driven by the potential for a lumber trade conflict, by timber availability and lower labour costs in the US.
In 2000, Interfor was one of 12 companies globally to receive the inaugural Millennium Business Award for Environmental Achievement, Interfor has maintained successful certification and surveillance audits by independent auditors (KPMG Performance Registrar Inc. and Smartwood) since 2001 (SFI certified) and select coastal operations certified ...
Interfor downsized its staff and, for a time, tried to reinvent the mill into a value-added venture but by the mid-1990s, the mill shut down for good. In 1921, Dr. Benjamin Marr planted Horse Chestnut trees along the Glover Road frontage of their property in Fort Langley. [ 4 ]
The next year, Arthur Holding became a partner. When destroyed by fire in 1945, the mill was rebuilt the same year, and the business was renamed the Holding Lumber Co. [31] In 1976, Interfor purchased the mill. [32] In the 2000s, logs continued to be barged down from a log sort area at Momich River and held in log booms at the mill. [12]
Rayonier Inc, headquartered in Wildlight, Florida, is a timberland real estate investment trust ("REIT") with assets located in some of the most productive softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand.
They include Interfor and companies that manufacture building materials, yachts and poles. Maple Ridge hosted the only North American high-volume manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries, E-One Moli Energy. [13] However, the factory suffered major layoffs due to the 2008 recession and now only hosts a small product testing team.