Directory of secondary wood-using industries in Alberta PDF
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i Canada Alberta FOREST RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT ENTENTE SUR LA MISE EN VALEUR DES RESSOURCES FORESTIERES Directory of Secondary Wood-Using industries in Aiberta-1986 Ahexia > The Canada-Alberta Forest Resource Development L'Entente Canada-Alberta sur la mise en valeur des Agreement is a s ubsidiary agreement of the Canada- ressources forestieres est auxiliaire a I’Entente Alberta Economic and Regional Development Agree- Canada-Alberta sur le ddveloppement economique et ment, which provides coordination and cooperation regional, qui vise a assurer la coordination et la between the governments of Alberta and Canada in cooperation des deux gouvernements relativement areas of Alberta's economic development. au dbveloppement bconomique de T Alberta. The Canada-Alberta Forest Resource Development L’Entente Canada-Alberta sur la mise en valeur des Agreement is funded equally by the governments of ressources forestieres est financ^e a p arts egales par Canada and Alberta, from April 1, 1984, to March 31, 1989. cleosu r sg o udvu e rlenre m aevrnitl s 19 8d4u aCu a n31a d maa r se t 1d9e8 9 .I ’Alberta, et a Its primary objectives are to ensure the long-term Ses objectifs principaux sont assurer la disponibilite a availability of timber supplies; to optimize timber long terme de reserves de bois; optimiser leur utilisa- uses; and to contribute to the growth and diversifi- tion; et c ontribuer a l a crolssance et la diversification de Teconomie de la province. cation of A lberta’s economy. The Agreement comprises three programs: Refores- L’Entente comprend trois programmes: Reboisement; tation; Applied research, technology transfer and Recherche appliquee, transferts de connaissances opportunity identification; and Public information, techniques et releve des occasions; et Information, evaluation and administration. These programs are Evaluation et administration. Ces programmes sont managed by a j oint Directorate and are implemented geres par un Bureau de direction conjoint, et mis en by the Canadian Forestry Service and the Alberta oeuvre par le Service canadien des forets et le Service Forest Service. forestier de T Alberta. For more information, please call or write: Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez vous adresser a; Canadian Forestry Service Northern Forestry Centre 5320- 122 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6H 3S5 Telephone: (403) 435-7210 Attention: S. Price OR/OU Alberta Department of Forestry, Lands & W ildlife 9915 - 108 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2C9 Telephone: (403) 427-3583 Attention: D. Fregren DIRECTORY OF SECONDARY WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES IN ALBERTA- 1986 March 1987 DISCLAIMER The study on which this report is based was funded under the Canada-Alberta Forest Resource Development Agreement. The views, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors. The exclusion of certain manufactured products does not necessarily imply disapproval nor does the mention of other products necessarily imply endorsement by the Canadian Forestry Service or the Alberta Forest Service. ©Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1987 Catalogue No. Fo 42-91/12- 1987E ISBN 0-662-15365-0 Additional copies of this publication are available at no charge from: Regional Development Canadian Forestry Service 5320 - 122 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6H 3S5 Acknowledgments 1 . The co-chairpersons of this project wish to thank the 2, We also wish to thank Alberta Economic Develop- following committee members for their contributions ment and Trade’s computer services for access to their to this report, data bank and the production of the body of this directory. In particular we wish to acknowledge Mr. Richard Anderson, Alberta Dept, of Forestry Richard Snyder for his efforts on our behalf. This Diana Boylen, Canadian Forestry Service publication would not have been possible without the Doug Caston, Federal Dept, of Regional Industrial above people donating their valuable time. Expansion Tom Dioszeghy, Alberta Public Works, Supply and Pat Sloan Services Michael Heit Mickey Holland, Architectual Society of Alberta Co-Dcihreacitromreyn of Secondary Wood-using Industries Joachim Loh, Jasper Mill Works Neil Miller, Alberta Dept, of Forestry Task Force Horst Ramanauskas, Sunchild Forest Products Ted Szabo, Alberta Dept, of Forestry March 1987 OVERVIEW 1. This directory is the result of a resolution of The the Canadian Forestry Service and the Alberta Hardwood Utilization Conference held in Whitecourt Forest Service. in 1985. The Canada- Alberta Forest Resource Development Agreement asked Pat Sloan and 6. Although many people think of Alberta as a“prairie” Michael Heit to co-chair a committee to develop a province, the fact remains that 60% of Alberta’s land area is f orest covered. Most of northern Alberta directory of secondary wood-using industries. Pat Sloan convened a committee to state what the is endowed with a b oreal mixed-wood forest in which purpose of the directory should be and what should white spruce and two poplar species (aspen and be in the directory, (see acknowledgements for balsam poplar) predominate. Extensive stands of committee members). The purpose of the directory jack pine exist in the northeast. Lodgepole pine and is to bring buyers and sellers together, to be used as a black and white spruce dominate data source for identifying markets for Alberta the foothills from the U.S. border to Grande Prairie. primary wood products, and to assist buyers to This subalpine forest accounts for over half of purchase locally manufactured products. Alberta’s timber production. 2. The term “secondary forest products” is an elusive Alberta’s primary forest industry consists of two term to all but the technically minded. The dozen major sawmills producing 1.1 billion board feet of lumber and another 300 small sawmills that committee’s advice was that it i s better to err on the side of including a f irm that may not technically be produce less than 100 million board feet in total. defined as a s econdary wood-using industry than err There are two major bleached kraft pulp mills, three on the side of excluding a given business. For plywood mills, and three oriented strand board mills example, a company that manufactures signs is (two new ones and one reconverted waferboard included in this directory where in fact the company mill). There are 18 wood treatment plants and one may be using mostly plastic as its material and only a MDF plant. little wood, or in some cases, no wood. 7. The Ministry of Economic Development commis- sioned Hallmark Engineering in 1983, to assess the 3. The data were collected by Alberta’s Economic current status of secondary manufacturing of solid Development System’s Group under R. Snyder. This survey of manufacturing was done in 1983 and wood products in Alberta. It was found that the updated in 1 986. The data are essentially a s ubset of secondary manufacturing sector was substantially a publication produced by the Alberta Economics greater than had been expected. It provides an Development and Trade — titled Alberta Manufac- estimated direct employment to 5500 people and an turing Index, 1987. Mr. R. Snyder was kind enough annual sales volume of $400 million. One unfor- to give us access to this information and conduct a tunate finding was that the major part of the raw special commuter run for the committee. materials used by Alberta wood-using industries is not based on the Alberta forest resource but is 4. This publication is sponsored by the Canada-Alberta imported from other provinces, the U.S. A. and Forest Resource Development Agreement. This overseas. This is changing with the introduction of a agreement was signed on October 26, 1984 by the medium density fibreboard (MDF) plant and avail- Governments of Canada and Alberta. The $23 ability ofs pecialty goods and dimensions. A n umber million cost of the five-year agreement is shared by of recent studies under the Canada-Alberta the two governments. Agreement have identified local opportunities and have explored import substitution. From an 5. The Canada-Alberta Forest Resource Development employment and economic diversification per- Agreement has also published a Directory of spective, secondary wood-using industries in Alberta Primary Wood-using Industries. It i s available from hold a l ot of promise. IV HOW TO USE THE DIRECTORY Section 1. Consists of a l isting of firms in alphabetical How to be listed order. Included in this section are the name, address, telephone number, an indication of All wood-using and related firms surveyed for the Alberta the staff size (it is given as a range) and Economic Development and Trade publication, Alberta product lines. This is similar to the white Manufacturing Index, are listed in this report. pages of a t elephone book. If y our firm is not listed you may be missing potential Section II. Arranges the information in terms of business opportunities. To ensure you are included in the products. It gives an alphabetic listing of Alberta government’s data bank, please contact Alberta products and the firms that produce these Economic Development and Trade’s System Group in products. If a company produces more than Edmonton. one product, it i s listed more than once. This is similar to the yellow pages of a t elephone book. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Alberta Libraries https://archive.org/details/directoryofsecon1986albe LISTING OF FIRMS
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