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Canfor Houston

Canfor Houston is a closed softwood sawmill in Houston, Canada, with a capacity of 645 000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year.

Company
Canadian Forest Products Ltd.
Group
Canfor
WoodComp ID
01715 (how IDs work)
Country
Canada
City
Houston
Status
Closed 2023
Capacity
about 645 000 m3/y sawn timber (reported as 380 MMBF/y)
Type
Softwood
Region
British Columbia

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Raw material

FirPineSpruce

Related facilities

Canfor Houston is the 4th 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 Plateau (Vanderhoof/Engen) ·Canfor Prince George
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 Smithers (Pacific Inland Resources) (50 km) ·Decker Lake Forest Products (Burns Lake) (52 km) ·Babine Forest Products (Burns Lake) (83 km) ·Skeena Sawmills (Terrace) (124 km) ·West Fraser Fraser Lake (LeJac) (133 km)

Timeline

  1. 2023closure

    Closed in the second quarter of 2023 (announced January 26, 2023) as Canfor restructured its British Columbia operations to align capacity with the available long term fibre supply, and the planned rebuild of the Houston site was suspended in May 2024 due to a persistent shortage of economically available timber.

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Sources

Data confidence: Medium (74 of 100) how this is computed

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WoodComp (). Canfor Houston (WoodComp ID 01715). WoodComp facility database, version 2026-09. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/id/1715

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