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New Shift at Pleasant Valley Reman Tenuous
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By Diana Van der Woerd - Houston Today
A new shift added at Pleasant Valley Remanufacturing (PVR) is tenuous.
John Brink, president and CEO of Brink Forest Products, based out of Prince George, of which PVR is a subsidiary, said the third shift is a minor addition at this point.
"We had a temporary bulge in the kind of raw material that required a small extra shift," Brink said.
"The lumber market is still difficult" Brink said.
"It’s difficult for all manufacturers of lumber. Our first concern is access to raw material."
Between six and ten new employees were hired for a new shift at the remanufacturing plant, bringing the total number of regular employees at PVR to approximately 75.
"We obviously hope to increase that at some point" Brink said.
"We are hoping to make increased investments in the operation, but our main concern is the economics of it."
"If we don’t have any access to raw materials, we don’t have a plant. The potential is there to double our operations, but we cannot do it without raw material."
PVR remanufactures low grade lumber and prepares trim block finger joints. The plant gets most of its raw material from Houston Forest Products.
Brink Forest Products, who pioneered finger jointing more than 30 years ago, acquired PVR in 2004.
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