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San Group bets on ‘high-value’ future with new Port Alberni sawmill
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun The B.C. lumber firm San Group on Friday rolled the first log through a brand new sawmill it has built at Port Alberni, a bright spot on a forest-sector landscape that has been otherwise dim. The symbolic occasion caps off San Group’s...
San Group says union deal with Mosaic will kill fibre supply chain
Increasing raw log exports will take away badly needed fibre from Canadian market, says San owner SUSIE QUINN May. 19, 2020 12:00 p.m. Alberni Valley News A landmark agreement between the United Steelworkers Local 1-1937 and Mosaic Forest Management is going to...
San Group buys specialty sawmill in Port Alberni
Visit our new sawmill SUSIE QUINN Apr. 28, 2020 6:00 a.m. LOCAL NEWSNEWS Forestry company continues work on Island expansion plans San Group has purchased another mill in Port Alberni. The Surrey-based forestry group bought the former Chalwood Forest Products mill on...
San Group featured in Canadian Forest Magazine
We are extremely thankful of CFI Magazine for recognizing our continued efforts to reinvent the Coastal Forest Industry, by extracting the maximum amount of value from each log harvested, as we like to say, ‘use less of the tree to create more’. The article...
San Group wins Manufactured Wood Products – Business of the Year Award!
Grant Thornton LLP is the Title Sponsor of the Awards, and along with Gold Sponsor RBC Royal Bank and Business Examiner, which coordinated the event. Category sponsors included Coastal Community Credit Union, Invest Comox Valley and HeliJet, as well as Platinum Media...
San Group CEO & President awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young
Dee Hon, BC Business B.C.’s forestry industry is fighting for survival. Keystone sawmills are closing in communities like Fort St. James, Quesnel and Vavenby this year, while dozens more across the province are reducing shifts. But in Port Alberni, Langley-based San...
San Group featured in Chek News story
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San Group’s major Port Alberni expansion is under way
The expansion project in Port Alberni is on the go. The sawmill on former Coulson site is 60% complete, and the newly acquired Catalyst property state-of-the-art re-man plant is 50% ready.
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