Jamaica lumber treatment plant to drive exports

(Jamaica Observer) ARC Systems Limited will use its new J$400- million lumber treatment plant as a platform to make a foray into the Caribbean export market as well as door manufacturing.

“We have had advanced discussions with suppliers in South America to basically buy the raw plywood there, ship here to Jamaica and use both for our own consumption and export within Caricom (and the Dominican Republic),” Deanall Barnes,