Burton’s Cove Logging and Lumber Ltd is an integrated sawmill and woods harvesting company that harvests and saws logs to produce lumber to be sold to the wholesale market. Burton’s Cove Logging also harvests pulpwood and produces pulp chips and hog fuel to be sent to Corner Brook Pulp and Paper in Corner Brook, NL. The Production Manager is Cory Osmond. Burton’s Logging and Lumber Ltd has been i
n operation since 1985. It was incorporated in 1988. This company began with a backyard sawmill, a skidder and a tractor. It employed 5 men. Burton’s Cove Logging spent 3 years in an area called Rocky Brook with a daily lumber production of approximately 1500 ft per day. In 1988 the company was moved to Burton’s Cove, a forwarder was added to their equipment and the daily production was increased to approximately 3000 ft per day. In 1991 there was yet again another move to Chouse Brook, a forklift was added to their equipment and the daily production of lumber was increased to approximately 6000 ft. The company would remain there for 7 years. In 1996 the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador recommended that all the small sawmills would be integrated into one large production. This initiated the construction of Burton’s Cove Logging and Lumber Ltd’s integrated sawmill, which was opened June of 1998. This new adventure brought many new additions of equipment and employees. There was an addition of harvesters, skidders, forwarders, tractor trailer, excavator, and many other pieces of equipment; plus the addition of 20 more employees. In 2001 there was a planer mill added and the total number of employees reached 50+; with the lumber production reaching a peak of 60,000 ft daily.
