In the press
What others have written about the mill.
We spend our days milling, not talking about ourselves. But over the years a few people whose job is to watch BC's forest industry have come out to the yard, asked hard questions, and written about what we do. Their words, not ours. Every link below goes to the original coverage.
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The Tyee How Monster Mills Ate BC’s Timber Jobs. An analysis of where BC’s timber jobs went, with our mill as the counter-example: a small operation that creates a job for roughly every 3,300 cubic metres of logs, where the biggest mills need more than 5,000.
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Canadian Forest Industries Building a Niche: BC Mill Sees Success Using Dry Wood. A profile of the operation and how we built a business on the dry balsam other mills will not take.
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Woodworking Network San Group’s New Partnership Turns Waste Wood into Value-Added Products. Trade coverage of the San-Seaton partnership and the cants that become value-added wood products.
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San Group San Group Enters Into a Waste Wood Value Added Lumber Supply Agreement. The official January 26, 2022 release describing the agreement, Seaton’s dry under-utilized logs, and cants supplied for value-added products.
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Logging & Sawmilling Journal Low Grade Wood = High Grade Benefits. A feature on the yard and how we generate real value from fibre nobody else wants: dry, decadent balsam.
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Government of British Columbia Small Business Spotlight: Andy Thompson | Seaton Forest Products Ltd.. A provincial small-business profile covering dry balsam utilization, local employment, and the mill’s wood-chip partnership.
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Government of British Columbia Forestry Project Cuts Carbon, Boosts Bulkley Jobs. A 2020 ministry release on fibre recovery, local jobs, cants, and wood chips.
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The Narwhal Up in Smoke: B.C. Backtracks on Promise to Deter Logging Industry from Burning Wood Waste. A feature on Seaton’s small-log mill and the case for using fibre larger mills leave behind.
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Forest Enhancement Society of BC Seaton Forest Products Dry Fibre Utilization. FESBC, with the support of government, invested $2.5 million in our dry fibre utilization project: putting wood that would otherwise burn in slash piles to work instead.
Media enquiries
Writing about the mill?
We are happy to talk about salvage milling, dry balsam, and keeping forestry jobs in the Bulkley Valley. Email office@seatonforest.ca or call (250) 847-1430 and ask for the office.
Need cants, boards, or chips?
The coverage is nice. The wood is the point. Tell us what you need.