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- MAJOR. value-added, producer: j in Prince

oy products plant i in Terrace. .
cv John. Brink, of Brink: Forest Products. red
ce told : a business: luncheon here last Thursday...” s
*. “this area is attractive, especially: with - the
wis pxpected completion of a: container: ‘ort in:
Prince Rupeit. :
i. “Weare a growing ‘ompany?”- Brink saic

. is no question about it."!,": 1
‘is. The ‘arrival. ‘of: ‘covitainerization « on -the

= | {9 Hew-opportunities; he said.
“1 believe Prince. “Rupert | will: play. a
— major,” ‘Major: Tole allowing. us to: expand i in:
1 the interior part of thé province,” Brink said...
~, “Northen B.C.-is. the best. location” to. take 7

_ feet per-year loas much as 200. million board’
-feét per year:

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‘Brinkt to mull Terrace

hwe ail b¢ looking closely at Terrace. There os

north: coast will-open upall of northern B. C. of

“adding. his- companies ‘aim to’ expand. their ce
"present. production: level of 80 million’ board

for value-added plant |

a ." on reer - Monday; October 25,2004)... 5 ne

; of pine stands will ‘be wiped out as fat weit ape

aS ‘Houston. ; a
Probably - close * to 350 - million: ‘cubic es ee
in metres is dead or dying now, he’said; adding J
that’s: four limes’ ‘the total Annual cut of. the me re

entire province. .

“He. ‘said’ ‘there: ‘are ‘big ‘opportunities - lo :
» Create unique products using beetle waod that,
a doesn” "tcompete, with traditional lumber,”
~ Brink’ also .told | the: bisiness " ‘audience: “7

‘the belten: 92.5007
“(Because |

~~ advantage of that.” f{wo-major companies

~. > Brink Forest Products and its subsidiaries’ 7 “control, 50: per: cent © -
’ already. employ around 175 people i in Prince . OF the’ allowable

- George,’ -primarily. in’ Dperations to, make - ee me dnnual - cut in one -.
-finger-jointing lumber. >. vere "Rein .. particular. : region,"

- "We ‘can’t -make eriough. of. ity” he said, Lo John Brink. -. he said. “That's not --

’ ‘necessarily healthy.”

He said that.” raises the danger. that -
‘supermills.' ‘run. “by. huge: companies . will
‘ increasingly” ‘consume’ mare. “volume “but:

“policy” are the. ‘most:
‘sweeping .in decades on ie
oo and she’s not’ sure |: bo
. they’se -entirely~ for es

. ofl
major mergers, forall -
-intentsand purchases,

; “Every: ‘year ‘Wwe . warit to build. another employ: fewer people.
"- finger-joint plant: somewhere, ”-he satd.: -

‘Ais firm ‘is: “expanding” into ’ Houston, *
i adding a remanufacturing. plant there:. "

~ And ‘he says | he’s. investing money i. :

or value-adde d'processors.:

: thousands of, jobs 3 es
° P'm not ‘anti:big. company,” he ‘added. “|
just think. il needs tobe diversified.”

we Brink’ said ‘his. lien: is’ “also” making a
| proposal ‘10, use  ‘beetle- kal led limber i in, the vs

subsidies. '

CONSTRUCTION . season -
» appears poised to wind down:
* ‘with significantly fewer ‘new io
z "building than last’ year, a
«Just $3.9 million in: new.
we Constriction. was. approved, -
“spy: the “city: by’ the end of

September,” ccompared"”
~ more than $10 million at ihe
same ‘point in 2003: ;

- ‘The stats’ should’ ‘eet a bit ..
of a boost ‘upward when. the . :
Boston : ‘Pizza! building, ‘per .
mit is is issued.” ve a juste east: ‘Of Terrace.”

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