forest products founded vancouver british columbia headquarters vancouver british columbia key people don kayne ceo & president alan nicholl senior vp finance and chief financial officer products forest products revenue 2 436 million can 2010 number of employees 4 690 2011 1 website www.canfor.com canfor corporation is a canadian integrated forest products company based in vancouver british columbia . contents 1 history 2 current status 3 references 4 external links history edit the company traces its roots to the late 1930s when brothers in law john g. prentice and l.l.g. poldi bentley and their families left their native austria just before the outbreak of world war ii . they settled in vancouver and built a small mill that was the beginning of the 73 year old company . in 2006 the company was subject to a proxy fight between billionaires jim pattison and stephen a. jarislowsky who owned 30 % and 18 % of the firm s shares respectively . pattison won and ousted ceo jim shepherd over canfor s poor performance and declining share price which saw jim shepard appointed as interim ceo . 2 current status edit financial information 2010 2009 2008 net sales c m 2 436 2 120 2 610 net earnings c m 161.3 62.8 345.2 poldi bentley s son peter bentley is now the chairman emeritus of the board of directors . canfor produces softwood lumber plywood oriented strand board and remanufactured lumber products . the majority of the company s operations are in british columbia and alberta ; however it owns a sawmill and timber harvesting rights in quebec as well as numerous locations in the southern united states . canfor also owns a controlling share in canfor pulp limited which produces northern softwood kraft pulp and kraft paper in bc . as of 2010 the company has an annual production capability of 4.8 billion board feet of lumber 270 million square board feet of plywood and 1 billion square board feet of oriented strand board . through its forest tenures and timber licenses canfor has 15.1 million cubic metres of annual allowable cut all of which is csa sfm canadian standards association sustainable forest management certified . 3 canfor is the owner of the world s largest sawmill plateau located near vanderhoof british columbia with an annual production capacity of 620 000 000 board feet 1 500 000 m3 . additionally canfor s operations in british columbia include houston sawmill houston british columbia ; isle pierre prince george rustad and polar sawmills in the prince george region fort st. john sawmill chetwynd sawmill vavenby sawmill radium sawmill and mackenzie sawmill . mills outside of bc include those in grande prairie alberta ; sainte foy quebec ; north carolina and south carolina . oriented strand board plants are located in fort nelson british columbia and fort st john and a plywood plant is located in fort nelson as well . canfor also owns a remanufacturing plant in bellingham washington and a tree nursery in prince george . 4 canfor formerly owned the englewood railway on vancouver island but sold it to western forest products in 2006 . 5 canfor has 4 690 employees as of march 2011 and is the second largest producer of dimensional lumber in canada . canfor is a member of the forest products association of canada . references edit a b company profile for canfor corporation ca ; cfp . retrieved 2008 10 07 . 1 canfor fact sheet pdf . canfor website . retrieved 10 june 2011 . operations section . canfor website . retrieved 10 june 2011 . http www.canfor.com resources company canfor factsheet.pdf external links edit canfor corporation website canfor careers website canfor pulp website v t e companies based in the metro vancouver area 604 records a & w canada advanced cyclotron systems apparent networks avigilon aritzia army & navy stores ballard power systems best buy canada black box games blenz coffee blueshore financial boston pizza brightlight pictures british columbia maritime employers association broadbandtv corp chc helicopter ctc bank of canada cactus club cafe canada wide media limited canadaupdates canfor canucks sports and entertainment central 1 credit union central heat distribution choices market citizens bank of canada clearly.ca coast capital savings coast mountain bus company commodore books cymax stores dairyland canada dan d foods dollar tree canada d wave systems e comm ea canada ebco industries eldorado gold envision financial fairchild group finning first quantum minerals fortisbc freshslice pizza goldcorp great northern way campus greenpeace gulf and fraser fishermen s credit union happy planet heffel gallery hellbent games hootsuite hothead games hsbc bank canada insights west intrawest ironclad games ivanhoe mines limited jet black games jim pattison group justason market intelligence kerberos productions klei entertainment london drugs lululemon athletica lush north america macdonald dettwiler macdonald realty magma energy mclean group of companies methanex metrolyrics modo car co op nature s path netsentron nettwerk nevada geothermal power new gold next level games nintendo of canada o2e brands ocean productions panago the pantry piranha games plentyoffish premium brands holdings corporation radical entertainment relic entertainment ricky s all day grill ritchie bros. auctioneers shavick entertainment sierra wireless silver standard resources silver wheaton slant six games softquad software stylus sofas synthetic entertainment t & t supermarket teck resources telus tenke mining teradici united front games univar canada vancity vancouver airport services vancouver film studios versacold vision critical west fraser timber west coast air white spot zulu records authority control worldcat identities viaf 220636698 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title canfor & oldid 743181650 categories companies based in vancouvercompanies listed on the toronto stock exchangepulp and paper companies of canadas & p tsx composite indexhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterswikipedia articles with viaf identifiers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 09 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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