West Fraser Timber Co. is a North American manufacturer of wood products that are marketed and sold worldwide. Its operations in western Canada (British Columbia and Alberta) produce spruce-pine-fir (SPF) lumber, plywood and fiberboard panels, pulp, newsprint, and wood chips. Here the company holds licenses to harvest from timberlands controlled by Canadian provincial governments. At its US operations in the south, the company produces lumber and wood chips from yellow southern pine (SYP). It traces its historical roots back to 1955 when Sam, Bill, and Pete Ketcham bought a small planing mill in Quesnel, British Columbia. Its largest market is the US.