Canfor will temporarily cut back operations at three B.C. sawmills – including Vavenby – due to log supply constraints, log costs and current market conditions.

The Vavenby operation will be affected for six weeks starting on February 11.

Meanwhile, sawmills in Houston and Mackenzie will be curtailed for one week each in the first quarter of 2019.

In a statement, Canfor says these cuts will reduce production by about 40-million board feet.

That’s in addition to the 150-million board feet production cuts made late last year and early this year.

The President of the United Steelworkers Union Local 1-417 Marty Gibbons is disappointed by the cutbacks.