Sexton Lumber Bloomfield
OperatingSexton Lumber Co LimitedID 01960
Sexton Lumber Bloomfield is an operating softwood sawmill in Bloomfield, Canada, owned by Sexton Lumber Co Limited. With a capacity of 136 000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year it is the 91st largest of the 116 sawmills in Canada with a recorded capacity.
Location and logistics
- Location
- Bloomfield, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Nearest port
- Argentia · 118 kmStraight-line distance to the nearest major port. Method
- Rail siding
- No siding mapped
- Nearest railway
- Over 50 km
Map
Capacity and output
- Capacity
- about 136 000 m3/y sawn timberreported as 80 000 000 FBM/y
- Production
- Not reported
- Type
- Softwood
Raw material and products
Fibre
History and sources
Timeline
- curtailment2013-10-02The Bloomfield sawmill halted operations because it did not have enough logs to keep running, a stoppage the provincial government expected to last only weeks.Source ↗
- expansion1999A Finnish HewSaw sawing machine costing about two million dollars was financed and installed at the Bloomfield mill.Source ↗
- expansion1996The mill installed what was described as the first chip-and-saw line in Newfoundland and Labrador.Source ↗
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- ownership change1992George Sexton passed the Bloomfield sawmill operation to his son Kevin Sexton and Kevin's wife Susan, who became co-owner.Source ↗
Sources
- otherchecked 2026-08-18brunswickvalley.ca ↗
- otherchecked 2026-07-25tigercat.com ↗
Related facilities
Largest in Canada
How to cite
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