Premier Pushes Wood Products
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Premier Gordon Campbell was pushing B.C. wood products at the opening of the Canada Wood Pavilion at the Japan Home and Building Show as part of the province’s efforts to increase its exports to Asian markets.
“British Columbia supplies 40 per cent of Japan’s softwood imports, trade that is worth $1 billion a year, but there is certainly room to grow.”
Japanese housing starts grew by 3.7 per cent in 2005 to 1.2 million units. Wood housing starts have increased from 503,761 in 2002 to 545,848 in 2005.
Visitors to the Canada Wood Pavilion will see a variety of wood products including: a cedar deck, examples of value added products, engineered wood products like oriented strandboard and laminated posts.
More than a hundred thousand people are expected to visit the Home show in HJapan.
This is one stop on the Premier’s "Gateway" mission to promote the ports of Prince Rupert and Vancouver to the Japanese and Chinese. He will also visit the Hong Kong Special Adminstrative region.
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Posted by: Harbinger on November 15 2006 10:05 PM