Skeena Sawmills to shut down log deliveries temporarily

Skeena Sawmills has stopped taking logs at its Terrace sawmill for three weeks as of Jan. 6, citing the high cost of logging and other factors affecting its business. But the mill itself will continue to produce lumber, drawing down what inventory there is in the log yard until the end of the month. Chipping operations will continue. “The ongoing current high-cost economic environment has continued to put pressures on our operating margins,” Skeena Sawmills chief operating officer Greg DeMille said in a Jan. 6 release. “Skeena is not immune to the same pressures that the ...