January 2021 Group Watch: Expansion at Jasper Lumber Facility
Jasper Lumber Co. and Canada’s Tolko Industries Ltd. have formed a partnership that will expand lumber production at a Walker County facility through a $45 million project creating at least 60 new jobs. The investment will triple capacity at Jasper Lumber’s existing sawmill and create additional activity for its other subsidiary companies, which will operate under the parent company Jasper Forest Products LLC, a Jasper-Tolko Partnership. Plans call for the construction of new facilities, the installation of new machinery and increased shifting at the mill. The construction work at the Jasper sawmill will begin in early 2021 and culminates the efforts of the Walker County Development Authority, the Jasper Industrial Development Board and the City of Jasper who have been working on this project for about a year.
