Canfor Chetwynd
Canfor Chetwynd is a closed softwood sawmill in Chetwynd, Canada, with a capacity of 390 000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year.
- Group
- Canfor
- WoodComp ID
- 01708 (how IDs work)
- Country
- Canada
- City
- Chetwynd
- Status
- Closed 2023
- Capacity
- about 390 000 m3/y sawn timber (reported as 230 MMBF/y)Other filing · verified 2026-09-07
- Type
- Softwood
- Region
- British Columbia
55.703, -121.623
Raw material
Related facilities
Canfor Chetwynd is the 21st largest sawmill in Canada of the 113 with a sawn timber capacity figure in WoodComp's register.
- More Canfor facilities
- Intercontinental Pulp Mill ·Northwood Mill ·Prince George Mill ·Canfor Houston ·Canfor Plateau (Vanderhoof/Engen)
- Largest sawmills in Canada
- Barrette-Chapais ·GreenFirst Cochrane ·GreenFirst Chapleau ·Groupe Lebel Saint-Pamphile ·Bois Daaquam (Groupe Lebel, Saint-Just-de-Bretenières)
- Nearest facilities
- West Fraser Chetwynd (5 km) ·Canfor Fort St. John (80 km) ·Conifex Mackenzie (106 km) ·Canfor Polar (Bear Lake) (149 km) ·Canfor Grande Prairie (187 km)
Timeline
- 2026capacity reported
Capacity reported: 230 t/y (mill scope, observed 2026-09-07).
Source ↗ - 2023closure
Permanently closed in the second quarter of 2023, announced in January 2023, as Canfor restructured its British Columbia operations to align manufacturing capacity with the declining long term economically available fibre supply.
Source ↗
Sources
Data confidence: High (90 of 100) how this is computed
- otherchecked 2026-07-25www2.gov.bc.ca
- otherchecked 2026-07-26openstreetmap.org
- otherchecked 2026-07-26energeticcity.ca
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- otherchecked 2026-07-26cbc.ca
- company websitechecked 2026-09-09canfor.com (archived copy)
- otherchecked 2026-09-19www2.gov.bc.ca
How to cite
WoodComp (). Canfor Chetwynd (WoodComp ID 01708). WoodComp facility database, version 2026-09. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/id/1708Data © WoodComp, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution required.