EACOM Timber Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Montreal, Quebec-headquartered EACOM Timber Corporation has been recognized by the Timmins Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is in recognition of the company’s work in the Timmins area.

The company was one among 16 businesses honoured by the Chamber of Commerce’s annual Nova Business Excellence Awards. The winners were selected by an expert panel comprising of six community judges from among 45 companies that competed in the final round. The winners were declared in a virtual ceremony held on August 13^th.

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The Chamber of Commerce commended the company for its dedicated efforts, which has helped it to recover, after being damaged by fire at least four times, since its inception in 1919. The blaze in 2012 had caused $20 million in damages and had led to closure of the mill for almost eighteen months. The most recent fire incident happened in 2014.

Despite all these setbacks, the company has invested over $42 million over the past decade in modernizing the facilities by incorporating modern technologies and state-of-the-art equipment. Consequently, the company has achieved significant boost in performance.

 Incidentally, the Timmins sawmill offers 150 full-time jobs, in addition to hundreds of supporting jobs. The company had marked its centenary in 2019.