West Fraser Timber Co.
About West Fraser Timber Co.
This entry is drawn from West Fraser Timber Co.'s corporate website, which covers the company as a whole rather than the New Boston mill on its own; the single direct reference to the town is a story headline, "West Fraser Unveils Solar Farm at New Boston, Texas Sawmill." The company says it makes "renewable wood building products for the world" and describes itself as "a growing international company built on a seven-decade foundation of close-knit community values," operating more than 50 facilities across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe with about 10,000 employees, among them 32 lumber mills, 15 OSB mills, 9 engineered wood mills and 2 pulp and paper mills. Its product range is given as OSB, lumber, plywood, LVL, MDF, particleboard and pulp. The stated business strategy rests on "being low cost, maintaining a strong balance sheet and reinvesting our profits into the business." The company dates itself to the Ketcham brothers' 1955 purchase of a small planer mill in Quesnel, B.C., and recounts a 2007 acquisition of 13 mills across the U.S. South, including Texas, that gave it a combined Canadian and U.S. lumber production capacity of approximately 6.2 billion board feet. It reports planting its two billionth seedling in Western Canada in 2021, joining the Science Based Targets initiative in 2022, and trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange as WFG.TO and on the New York Stock Exchange as WFG. As described on westfraser.com, read 23 September 2026.
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