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The Jackpine Group of Companies (Jackpine), headquartered in Williams Lake, is a privately owned British Columbia entity, whose primary business function is the remanufacture of softwood lumber into value-added forest products for the domestic and international markets. Jackpine’s mission is "to add value to every piece of wood that enters the plant and produce high quality products with maximum efficiency and recovery." The Jackpine Group of Companies is made up of Jackpine Forest Products Ltd. (JFP), Jackpine Engineered Wood Products Inc. (JEWP), and Redwood Value Add Products Inc. (Redwood).
Jackpine is the largest independent lumber manufacturer and value-added wood products manufacturer in Western Canada.
Jack Pine happens to be the name of one of many North American pine family trees, but don’t let that confuse you. The company Jackpine and the Jack Pine species of tree have nothing in common. The company name resulted from an interesting application of the Sikh tradition practiced by its founder. In the Sikh tradition, children’s names are usually chosen by randomly selecting a page from the Sikh scriptures, taking the first letter on the page, and using that as the starting letter of the name. Gian Singh Sandhu, the company’s founder decided to apply this idea when looking for a name for his company and came up with the letter corresponding to the English ‘J’. The search was then on for a corporate name that would begin with ‘J’ and spoke of forestry, and Jackpine the company was born.