Ontario's Crown wood supply competition is drawing to a close with last-minute announcements still coming.
A Chapleau sawmill, Niska North, will receive 97,800 cubic metres per year of white birch, poplar, red and white pine, and other conifer.
The company makes lumber, siding, decking, fence posts, mouldings, logs for log homes, fuelwood and mulch. The plan is add equipment to process smaller logs.
The Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry said the allocation will add 27 new jobs to the company's current workforce of 19.
Niska North president Wade Cachagee said the wood supply is “great news” for his company and the community. “The additional Crown wood provides the opportunity to quickly respond to value-added markets for all wood species.”
In Kirkland Lake, Rosko Forestry grabbed an annual allocation of 138,500 cubic metres of merchantable cedar, spruce, pine, fir, white and red pine and other conifer. The wood supply creates 24 jobs and preserves 24 existing workers at the expanding sawmill operation.
The province said the wood competition is “nearing completion” with all the allocation offers now delivered. So far, the government said it has extended 36 offers for almost 5 million cubic metres of wood to create or preserve more than 3,000 jobs.
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