Published May 2003

Crown Pacific shuts down mill in Marysville

SCBJ Staff

Crown Pacific has temporarily shut down its lumber mill in Marysville, along with two others in Washington and Oregon.

The late-April closure, blamed on depressed prices for softwood lumber, will immediately affect up to 30 of the 41 workers at the Marysville mill, according to Crown Pacific’s headquarters in Portland, Ore.

While the sawmills have shut down at the Marysville, Port Angeles and Gilchrist, Ore., facilities, lumber production will continue in other parts of the plants until the inventory runs out, said John Mangan, spokesman for Crown Pacific Partners LP.

Mangan said no restart date has been set.

“After a couple weeks, it may resume. We just don’t know when,” Mangan said. “We’ll be playing it by ear and keeping our eyes open for a change in the market.”

The mill at the south end of Marysville cuts softwood, such as Douglas fir, into stud lumber. It has been running a single shift during the past year. Crown Pacific also owns thousands of acres of timber in the North Cascades, including some in Snohomish County.

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