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A16 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 28,2005 ,

IRVING GRYPSTRA, shipping coordinator for the Terrace Lu
~ and rail,cars last week as the company sent out its first shipments of lumber.

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mber Company, supervises the loading of trucks

SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO

Lumber shipments leave mill

_ By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN __

‘THE TERRACE Lumber: Company
sent off its first.shipments of lumber
last week bringing the mill into,a fully

_ Sept. 22 as' trucks Were loaded up and -
’ headed for Kitimat’ where the lumber"

' Bennett. = -»-

7 operating, revenue making company.
. It’s the first. shipment to leave the
yard’since late 2001, after Skeena Cel-

lulose went into bankruptcy. |

_." The shipments, started going out

More Marine of Kitimat has the

contract to transport the wood. -
The lumber being shippéd.to Van-

-couver was purchased by Taiga Forest

Products, Bennett said. .
_In addition to the dumber trucke
to Kitimat, the mill loaded up 97, 000
board feet of lumber onto a rail cars
destined for the eastern United States.

‘“We’re finally. a complete mill,” .

Takhar. . - . 7
- That brings the number of employ- --

ees at the mill up to 62, said president ©
Mo Takhar. poy a:

, "We are probably at 62 now and . e |
_ Still need two or three more guys that
we’ll hire as we go,” Takhar said.

~The company is selling both green’

lumber -— wood that is not kiln dried

— as well as the finished product.

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. Despite a still lagging harvesting

_ situation in the northwest, Takhar says
the company’s log supply is coming in «
at a steady rate. .
“Tog supply is coming pretty good, | .
we could always use more but it’s com- ~
ing steady,” he said. .

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Bennett said last week..
_ “We.took the raw materials, put it
into lumber and now we’ve shipped
it...now we’ve got revenue.” a
» The company also hired another 27
‘people Sept. 12 to run the planer, and.
the kiln, says company president Mo

was loaded on to a barge destined for
Vancouver, says mill manager. Terry

, Thirteen truck loads of lumber con-
sisting of 30,000 board feet, per truck
left the mill last Thursday and Friday.

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