Stella-Jones Inc

Stella-Jones Inc. (TSX: SJ) is a North American producer and marketer of industrial treated wood products, specializing in the production of railway ties and timbers as well as wood poles supplied to electrical utilities and telecommunication companies. The Company manufactures the wood preservative creosote and other coal tar based products and provides the railroad industry with used tie pickup and disposal services. Switching, locomotive and railcar maintenance services are also offered, as is tie-derived boiler fuel. The Company also provides treated residential lumber products and customized services to lumber retailers and wholesalers for outdoor applications. Other treated wood products include marine and foundation pilings, construction timbers, highway guardrail posts and treated wood for bridges.

The Company operates nineteen wood treating plants, a coal tar distillery, three facilities providing railway tie pickup and disposal services, two distribution centres, two pole peeling facilities and has a 50% interest in a third pole peeling operation. These twenty-eight facilities are located in six Canadian provinces and fifteen American states.

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