DUNCAN, BC, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Forest Products Inc. (TSX: WEF) announces that it held its Annual and Special Meeting today at which all matters presented to shareholders were approved including the creation of a new class of non-voting shares. For further information on these non-voting shares please refer to our Management Information Circular dated May 12, 2006.
Western Forest Products
Western is an integrated Canadian forest products company. Principal activities conducted by Western and its subsidiaries include timber harvesting, reforestation, sawmilling logs into lumber and wood chips, and value-added remanufacturing. Substantially all of Western's logging is conducted on government owned timberlands in British Columbia. All of Western's operations, employees and corporate facilities are located in the coastal region of British Columbia while its products are sold in over 20 countries worldwide. Western is the largest Coastal British Columbia woodland operator and lumber producer with an Annual Allowable Cut of approximately 7.7 million cubic meters of timber and lumber capacity in excess of 1.5 billion board feet from nine sawmills and five remanufacturing plants.
Contacts:
For further information, please contact:
Reynold Hert (250) 715-2207 Paul Ireland (250) 715-2209
President & CEO CFO
