Seaton Forest Products Dry Fibre Utilization

The goal of this project is to utilize waste wood, primarily dry balsam, some pine, and spruce, that cannot be used by traditional mills and is normally left in the bush or burned. This project will help with costs beyond Seaton Forest Products Ltd.’s economic limit, allowing increased fibre utilization and reduction of carbon emissions from burning. Seaton Forest Products, located 9 km west of Witset First Nation and on Wet'suwet'en traditional territory, is also able to provide up to 22 local jobs, employing up to 15 workers from surrounding indigenous communities. The project facilitates the utilization of approximately 289,000 cubic metres of residual fibre from Bulkley Timber Supply Area. Seaton Forest Products produces cants (large dimension squared-off logs to be further processed into smaller dimensional lumber) out of logs which are not used in local mills. The cants are shipped to China where there’s a strong market for this type of Canadian product.