Sexton Lumber Bloomfield
Sexton Lumber Bloomfield is an operating softwood sawmill in Bloomfield, Canada, with a capacity of 136 000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year.
- Company
- Sexton Lumber Co Limited
- WoodComp ID
- 01960 (how IDs work)
- Country
- Canada
- City
- Bloomfield
- Status
- Operating
- Capacity
- about 136 000 m3/y sawn timber (reported as 80 000 000 FBM/y)verified 2026-09-07
- Type
- Softwood
48.355, -53.886
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Sexton Lumber Bloomfield is the 89th largest sawmill in Canada of the 113 with a sawn timber capacity figure in WoodComp's register.
- Largest sawmills in Canada
- Barrette-Chapais ·GreenFirst Cochrane ·GreenFirst Chapleau ·Groupe Lebel Saint-Pamphile ·Bois Daaquam (Groupe Lebel, Saint-Just-de-Bretenières)
- Nearest facilities
- Port Hawkesbury Mill (644 km) ·JDI Truro (781 km) ·Ledwidge Lumber (826 km) ·Fornebu Lumber (Miramichi) (890 km) ·Chaleur Sawmills (Belledune, ex-EACOM) (891 km)
Timeline
- 2013-10-02curtailment
The 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 ↗ - 1999expansion
A Finnish HewSaw sawing machine costing about two million dollars was financed and installed at the Bloomfield mill.
Source ↗ - 1996expansion
The mill installed what was described as the first chip-and-saw line in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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- 1992ownership change
George Sexton passed the Bloomfield sawmill operation to his son Kevin Sexton and Kevin's wife Susan, who became co-owner.
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Sources
Data confidence: High (75 of 100) how this is computed
- otherchecked 2026-08-18brunswickvalley.ca
- otherchecked 2026-07-25tigercat.com
How to cite
WoodComp (). Sexton Lumber Bloomfield (WoodComp ID 01960). WoodComp facility database, version 2026-09. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/id/1960Data © WoodComp, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution required.