Employees of International Forest Products Ltd. (Interfor)’s Grand Forks sawmill in Grand Forks, British Columbia will be off for 3 weeks while Interfor completes upgrades to the mill.

The downtime begins on November 10.  When the mill reopens in early December, Interfor hopes to see a 10% increase in production.

The mill also plans to scales back from 3 shifts to 2 shifts and still see the increase in production.

“We’re very excited about the Grand Forks projects, as we are with the projects that have been achieved in Castlegar, and the work that has been done there in the past year,” said Duncan Davies, President and CEO of Interfor. “I’d like to thank our capital projects group and the management crews at both mills for their contributions to the company.”

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