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The Midway mill has been re-opened and brought back to life—a venture that turned out to be a true community effort in every sense.

WoodEx currently creates and exports value-added lumber products, primarily for the Chinese and Japanese market. The mill does not have its own forest tenure, so can now tap into some 5,000 cubic metres of timber on Akisqnuknik lands.

Canfor, which is Canada’s largest lumber producer, will buy Tembec’s Elko and Canal Flats sawmills and approximately 1.1 million cubic metres of combined Crown, private land and annual allowable cut.

Canadian Timberlands has completed its tree planting operations across B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario, and although more than 12 million trees were planted, not one recordable safety incident was incurred for the 2011 planting season.

Over the past years, Kootenay Manufacturing Co. (KMC) has been supplying countries in South America with FMC and KMC Track Skidders. The majority of machines are in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Brazil.

Situated in Wynndel, just north of Creston, B.C., Wynndel Box & Lumber company is getting the attention of the world catering to over 13 countries including Pakistan, Europe, the Middle East, the United States, and Japan.

The Midway sawmill reopens in the B.C. Interior, promising to create jobs and bring economic benefits to the region.

Tembec sees positive signs that the American lumber market is ready to rebound.

Despite not selling a single board of lumber into the Japanese market since the earthquake in northern Japan, Tembec representative is upbeat about the Asian market.

Cranbrook and area biggest employer, gave the monthly Chamber of Commerce luncheon an update report.

On Saturday, April 9th the Minister of Forests and MLA John Slater will be cutting the ribbon between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. at the Midway Mill site.

Columbia Basin Trust will provide $17,000,000 in new funding in the 2011/12 fiscal year to support a broad range of initiatives throughout the Columbia Basin.

Just north of Castlegar lies the Zellstoff Celgar Pulp Mill; with its workforce of more than 400 employees, it is one of the key economic drivers of the West Kootenay.

Using wood harvested from their community forest, the Ktunaxa Nation donated wood for a podium seen at the Pacific Coliseum.

Krystle, Ken and Chris Kalesnikoff are proud of their family-owned and operated business.