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Acadian Timber Corp.

Publicly traded · TSX: ADN.TO

Acadian Timber owns and manages freehold timberland in New Brunswick and northern Maine and provides management services on Crown land. It is the smallest of the listed timberland owners on this site and the only pure read on the Northeastern market rather than the U.S. South.

Ownership
Publicly traded
Listed as
TSX: ADN.TO
Headquarters
Edmundston, New Brunswick
Timberland
Freehold timberland in New Brunswick and Maine, plus timber services on Crown licences
www.acadiantimber.com (opens in a new tab)See the ADN.TO quote

Does it buy timber from private landowners?

Not stated - nothing this company publishes answers the question either way.

Acadian's business is growing and selling timber off its own freehold land and managing licensed Crown timberland. Nothing it publishes describes buying stumpage from private landowners, and none of its ground is in the South.

This is a company-level answer taken from what the company itself publishes. Every mill sets its own specifications, haul radius and gate price, and any of them can stop buying without notice. Confirm with the mill before you put a crew on the ground — and for a real number on a real tract, let buyers bid against each other.

What it makes and sells

  • Softwood and hardwood sawlogs
  • Pulpwood
  • Timberland management services

In the U.S. South

Nothing published puts this company's operations in the Southern states. For an Alabama landowner it is context, not a market.

Find the mills in your county in the state agency directories.

Worth knowing

  • Listed here because it is on the /markets board, not because it is a market for Southern wood. If you are in Alabama, this company is a price signal, not a buyer.

Where these facts came from

Checked against these documents on 14 August 2026. AXE USA has no relationship with Acadian Timber: nobody paid to be listed, this profile is not a recommendation, and nothing here is investment advice. If a fact disagrees with the company itself, the company is right.

Others in timberland owners & managers

Companies whose asset is the ground itself. They grow and sell timber, and some buy land rather than logs - which makes them a buyer for the tract, not the harvest.

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  • RMS

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  • Westervelt

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  • Weyerhaeuser

    Not stated publicly

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