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Forest company’s vice-president injured in sawmill shooting

Forest company’s vice-president injured in sawmill shooting Tony Sudar, injured in the shooting at Western Forest Products mill in Nanaimo, was born and raised in Port Alberni and has spent his career in the lumber industry, a former colleague said W
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Tony Sudar, vice-president of manufacturing for Western Forest Products.

Forest company’s vice-president injured in sawmill shooting

 

Tony Sudar, injured in the shooting at Western Forest Products mill in Nanaimo, was born and raised in Port Alberni and has spent his career in the lumber industry, a former colleague said Wednesday.

Sudar managed the Island Phoenix mill, a sawmill adjacent to Harmac pulp mill, said Sid Norman of Nanaimo. Norman managed the earlier incarnation of the sawmill when it was known as No. 3 and No. 4 woodrooms, producing hog fuel for the pulp mill and lumber for the market.

Sudar was at Island Phoenix when Western Forest Products took over the sawmill division.

He is currently WFP’s vice-president of manufacturing and oversees the company’s production.

“He’s a very nice man, very well liked by the union people,” Norman said.

Sudar is more a negotiator then a hard bargainer, Norman said.

“He’s from the school of talking situations through and coming to an agreement,” he said.

According to Sudar’s biography on the Western Forest Products website, he was appointed vice-president of manufacturing in August 2011. He has worked for the company since 1979.