Sawmillers

The Forestry Commission is actively mulling the possibilities of expanding the sector by issuing export licences also to sawmillers.

Asau, with the Potlatch sawmillers and Samoa Forest Products, was one of the busiest parts of Savai'i in the 1960s and 1970s; however, the departure of Potlatch and the scaling down of the sawmill has left Asau a ghost town in recent years.