TSX: WEF
DUNCAN, BC, Feb. 21 /CNW/ - Western Forest Products Inc. (TSX: WEF) confirms that it will be attending the CIBC World Markets 2007 Institutional Investor Conference on Friday, February 23, 2007. Representatives of the Company will make a short presentation profiling the Company, followed by a question and answer discussion session. The short slide presentation will be made available on our website at www.westernforest.com approximately one hour before the presentation, which is scheduled for 9:10 a.m. (PST). A live audiocast of the presentation will be available by accessing the following web site: http://events.startcast.com/events/118/B0013/code/eventframe.asp?part(equal sign)3
Western Forest Products
Western is an integrated Canadian forest products company and the largest coastal British Columbia woodland operator and lumber producer, with an Annual Allowable Cut of approximately 7.7 million cubic meters (before temporary AAC reductions and reductions with respect to the removal of certain private timberlands from Tree Farm Licences) of timber, and lumber capacity of approximately 1.5 billion board feet from eight sawmills and four remanufacturing plants. Principal activities conducted by the Company 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.