Less than a year after its first U.S. acquisition, Western Forest Products has acquired a lumber mill in Vancouver, Washington. Western has agreed to purchase the assets of Columbia Vista for $30.5 million US, which gives the Island-based company another facility that will manufacture products for the Japanese and U.S. markets. …Western senior director of communications Babita Khunkhun said a second investment in the U.S. doesn’t mean a change in the company’s focus. “Western is committed to growing our business. Like a lot of B.C. forest companies whose fibre basket is constrained, we have made a decision to buy assets where and Khunkhun said the company still intends to invest in B.C. with as much as $90 million expected to have been invested in 2018. …She said all logs for the Columbia Vista operation would be sourced in the U.S.