Sep 06, 2011. /Lesprom Network/. Canfor Corporation announced the successful restart of the Corporation's Vavenby sawmill in British Columbia, Canada. The September 6, 2011 restart follows a $24 million capital investment which included a new canter line, a new grade optimizer in the planer and an upgraded planer feed system. At full production, Vavenby will add 240 million board feet of SPF to company capacity on an annual basis, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network. "Our committed, exceptional workforce in Vavenby, the company's capital investment program and the excellent work that government has done to partner with industry in developing new markets for our products has allowed us to restart this facility," said Canfor CEO, Don Kayne. Since 2002, the Province of British Columbia and the Government of Canada have worked in parallel with the forest industry in opening new markets for BC lumber. Increased global demand means that facilities like Vavenby are able to re-open, providing employment and economic benefits. British Columbia's Minister of Environment, Terry Lake, and Clearwater Mayor, John Harwood, attended the opening event. "It was exciting to see the restart of this sawmill, which will create 96 jobs at the mill by the end of September and a further 30 jobs in logging and trucking," remarked Terry Lake, MLA for Kamloops-North Thompson. Canfor is a leading integrated forest products company based in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) with operations in BC, Alberta, Quebec, Washington State, and North and South Carolina. The Company produces primarily softwood lumber and also produces oriented strand board (OSB), remanufactured lumber product, bleached chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp and specialized wood products.