The Tolko Industries Ltd. plywood mills in Heffley Creek and Armstrong, British Columbia are joining APA – The Engineered Wood Association. Tolko’s OSB mills in High Prairie and Slave Lake, Alberta and Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan are already members of APA, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
“Tolko has recently launched the T-Ply product family of innovative plywood panel products for flooring, sheathing and underlayment giving a good, better, best choice to builders. The support services our OSB mills have received from their APA membership has been invaluable; we look forward to the APA helping us meet our goal of supplying superior products that meet the demands of builders,” said Hardy Wentzel, Tolko’s Vice President Sales, Marketing & Logistics.
“Tolko has been an active and valued member with their oriented strand board products, and we are pleased to welcome the Heffley Creek and Armstrong plywood mills into APA membership,” said APA President Dennis Hardman. “This vote of confidence on the part of Tolko will significantly strengthen APA’s voice in Canada and in the broader plywood industry. We look forward to bringing the full value of APA services to them and welcome their participation in our Association activities and advisory committees,” he said. Tolko’s Vice President of OSB and Kraft Papers, Jim Baskerville, currently serves on the APA Board of Trustees.
APA (formerly the American Plywood Association) represents more than 80% of all plywood and oriented strand board produced in Canada and the U.S.
Tolko Industries Ltd. is a private, Canadian-owned forest products company based in Vernon, British Columbia. Tolko is a major producer and marketer of lumber, veneer, plywood, oriented strand board, and kraft papers.
