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Canadian Wood Products and Tembec Announce an Exclusive Sales Agreement
24 Février 2012 00:00Montreal, February 2, 2012. Today, Canadian Wood Products (CWP) with headquarters in Montreal along with Tembec announce that we have come to an agreement on the rights to market Tembec's MSR (Machine ... Lire la suite...
Canadian Wood Products et Tembec annoncent une convention de vente exclusive
10 Février 2012 00:00Montréal, le 2 février 2012. Canadian Wood Products (CWP) dont le siège social est situé à Montréal et Tembec annoncent aujourd'hui qu'elles ont conclu une convention de vente ... Lire la suite...
BC's Chief Forester says pine beetle kill wasn't as destructive as first feared
03 Février 2012 20:00Jim Snetsinger, British Columbia’s Chief Forester, told a convention of the Western Silviculture Contractors’ Association this week that the historic mountain pine beetle infestation in interior B.C. wasn’... Lire la suite...
Weyerhaeuser reports quarterly net earnings of $65 million
03 Février 2012 20:00Weyerhaeuser has reported net earnings of $65 million in their fourth quarter on net sales of $1.6 billion. This can be compared to Weyerhaeuser’s net earnings of $171 million on net sales ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek expects to receive 3rd party proposals today
03 Février 2012 15:00Fibrek Inc. announced today that a proposal has emerged from its strategic alternatives review process, which was initiated by Fibrek’s Board following the unsolicited insider bid made by AbitibiBowater ... Lire la suite...
$17 million in funding for Arbec to reopen Miramichi mill
03 Février 2012 14:00The governments of New Brunswick and Canada are providing more than $17 million to Arbec Forest Products to restart the Miramichi OSB mill that was closed 5 years ago by Weyerhaeuser. Provincial ... Lire la suite...
Domtar reports net quarterly earnings of $61 million
03 Février 2012 09:00Domtar Corporation has posted net earnings of $61 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. These results can be compared to net earnings of $117 million in the third quarter of 2011 and net ... Lire la suite...
NewPage Port Hawkesbury workers sue company for $168 million in unpaid severance, pensions, and benefits
03 Février 2012 08:00The workers of the idled NewPage Port Hawkesbury mill in Nova Scotia have filed a lawsuit for $168 million against the company. The employees, represented by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (... Lire la suite...
Presentation made by Philippe Boisclair at the 6th International softwood conference Copenhagen 2011
02 Février 2012 00:00Attached is the presentation made by Philippe Boisclair at the 6th International softwood conference Copenhagen 2011. The International Softwood Conference is the most prestigious annual event held in the industry. Speakers ... Lire la suite...
Who does Terrace Bay Pulp owe?
01 Février 2012 21:00The document listing Terrace Bay Pulp‘s creditors is 8 pages long and totals $41,456,859.90 Canadian, and another $1,531,404.42 is owed in U.S. Funds. The biggest creditor is the Ontario Government at $24,166,666.00 ... Lire la suite...
A word from Hon. Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources
01 Février 2012 20:00The Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, today addressed representatives of Canada's forest industry at a luncheon speech at PaperWeek 2012 in Montreal. The Minister highlighted the importance of partnerships, ... Lire la suite...
43 jobs cut in Corner Brook today
01 Février 2012 20:00The meetings between Kruger and the 8 union locals representing its workers at the Corner Brook Pulp and Paper mill have concluded and the word is at least 43 full time jobs ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia in process of cutting stumpage by 30%
01 Février 2012 10:00Dan Leger, former editor of Halifax’s Chronicle Herald, has broke the news on his personal blog that the Nova Scotia government is in the process of cutting stumpage fees ... Lire la suite...
Job cuts hitting Corner Brook Pulp & Paper today
01 Février 2012 10:00The Western Star is reporting that Kruger is in the process of cutting jobs today at its Corner Brook Pulp and Paper mill. Their sources say that all 8 union locals ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper to receive $175 million in DIP financing from JP Morgan
01 Février 2012 09:00JP Morgan is providing Catalyst Paper with up to $175 million in debtor-in possession (DIP) financing to help fund its operations during its period of credit protection, under the Companies’ Creditors ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey cuts the price they'll pay for pulpwood by 10%
31 Janvier 2012 20:00Bowater Mersey, in Nova Scotia, has cut the price it will pay for pulpwood cut on private land by 10%. The price was cut from $36/tonne to $32.50/tonne, effective January 30. This ... Lire la suite...
Domtar enters agreement to sell closed Lebel-sur-Quévillon mill to Fortress for $1
31 Janvier 2012 15:00Domtar Corporation has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Fortress Global Cellulose Ltd, and with a subsidiary of the Government of Québec, for the sale of ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper to file for creditor protection
31 Janvier 2012 08:00Catalyst Paper Corporation has announced that to facilitate an orderly restructuring of its business and operations, the board of directors of the company has approved a filing for an Initial ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper's reaction to Crofton ‘no' vote
30 Janvier 2012 08:005 of the 6 union locals representing Catalyst Paper‘s work force at its Crofton, Powell River, and Port Alberni paper mills have voted in favour of a new collective agreement. One ... Lire la suite...
Crofton PPWC Local 2 votes ‘no' to tentative agreement
29 Janvier 2012 22:00Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC) Local 2 of the Crofton Pulp and Paper mill have voted against their tentative agreement with Catalyst Paper. The vote was 58% against (132 voted Yes, 180 ... Lire la suite...
Norbord reports a loss of $11 million in 2011
27 Janvier 2012 20:00Norbord Inc. has posted a net loss of $11 million for the full year of 2011, compared to a net earning of $13 million in 2010. “Our 2011 financial results are disappointing in absolute terms,” ... Lire la suite...
Resolute cuts 45 jobs in Fort Frances, Ontario
27 Janvier 2012 20:00Resolute Forest Products (formerly AbitibiBowater), will not be recalling 45 people to work when they resume paper production next week. The 45 job cuts represent approximately 16% of the Fort Frances workforce. Communications, ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp under creditor protection, Mill is for sale
26 Janvier 2012 20:00Terrace Bay Pulp is now in a period of creditor protection through the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). Ernst & Young Inc. has been appointed as Monitor by the Ontario Superior ... Lire la suite...
Tembec reports net loss of $16 million in its first quarter
26 Janvier 2012 10:00Tembec has posted a net loss of $16 million on sales of $401 million in its first quarter, ending on December 24, 2011. For comparison, in the same quarter of 2010, the company reported a ... Lire la suite...
LETTER: Victims of Brookfield
25 Janvier 2012 20:00I sympathise with White Birch Paper retirees. Let me tell you what I went through with the CCAA. I worked for 39 years at the Thurso paper plant. I worked both ... Lire la suite...
Crofton ratification vote scheduled for Saturday
25 Janvier 2012 20:00Strenuous talks between Catalyst Paper and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC) ended last night with a tentative 5-year agreement for one of the union locals at the ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber assessing fire damage at Timmins sawmill
25 Janvier 2012 19:00EACOM Timber wants to rebuild its sawmill that was heavily damaged by fire on Monday night in Timmins, Ontario. The fire was contained to the sawmill. The planer mill and ... Lire la suite...
United Steelworkers launch Burns Lake Fund to support Babine workers and families
24 Janvier 2012 18:00The United Steelworkers (USW) announced today the launch of a fundraising campaign and the creation of a trust account to provide support to the workers of Babine Forest Products and ... Lire la suite...
Kruger leaks its own internal memo to CBC
24 Janvier 2012 15:00Kruger sent an internal memo to CBC in Newfoundland and Labrador this afternoon, seemingly by accident. In the internal memo, the company mentions the production costs at their Corner Brook ... Lire la suite...
CAW and the CEP are considering a merge
24 Janvier 2012 12:00The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) are considering merging, and forming a new Canadian union. For several weeks, these two large private-sector labour ... Lire la suite...
No job cuts made today in Corner Brook
24 Janvier 2012 12:00This morning’s closed door meeting between Kruger and the Union (CEP) representing the workers at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper has concluded. No immediate job cuts were announced, however, ... Lire la suite...
Main building at EACOM Timber's sawmill in Timmins lost in fire
23 Janvier 2012 17:00The main sawmill building at EACOM Timber‘s McChesney sawmill in Timmins, Ontario has been lost in a fire. Damage is estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Firefighters ... Lire la suite...
Saskatchewan extends pine beetle survey
23 Janvier 2012 17:00The Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment has extended a contract for mountain pine beetle surveys due to a higher than expected number of infested trees found in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. ... Lire la suite...
Forest Products Assocation of Canada pleased with extension to Softwood Lumber Agreement
23 Janvier 2012 14:00The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased that the Minister of International Trade, Ed Fast, has today announced a two-year extension of the Softwood Lumber Agreement along with ... Lire la suite...
Saskatchewan buys 2.5 million tree seedlings
23 Janvier 2012 12:00The Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment has contracted with a Saskatchewan nursery to grow and store 2.5 million tree seedlings, all destined for planting projects in the Provincial Forest. The pine seedlings ... Lire la suite...
Job cuts coming to Corner Brook Pulp and Paper
23 Janvier 2012 11:00Job cuts of up to 90 positions are coming this week to Kruger‘s Corner Brook Pulp and Paper in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Western Star has heard from sources indicating ... Lire la suite...
Softwood lumber act to be extended to 2015
23 Janvier 2012 08:00The current Canada – US Softwood Lumber Act is set to expire in 2013. It seems that both countries have agreed to simply extend the current agreement for 2 years, rather than to ... Lire la suite...
Fire at EACOM's sawmill in Timmins, ON
23 Janvier 2012 08:00A fire broke out last night around 8pm at EACOM Timber‘s McChesney sawmill in Timmins, Ontario. The fire was reported in the main sawmill building. Fire crews were unable ... Lire la suite...
Fort Frances mill soon to restart amidst rumours of job cuts
22 Janvier 2012 21:00Resolute Forest Product‘s Fort Frances mill is scheduled to restart operations soon. Paper production was curtailed at the mill at the end of November, and both kraft and paper ... Lire la suite...
Hodgson's Chipping Ltd. closing its operations in Nova Scotia
21 Janvier 2012 19:00Hodgson’s Chipping Ltd. will be closing up its operation in Truro, Nova Scotia this spring. The company has been in business for over 40 years and has progressed from being ... Lire la suite...
Roof literally blown off Babine Forest Products sawmill
21 Janvier 2012 18:00Updates about the Babine Forest Products sawmill explosion last night: 19 people were sent to hospital. Injuries range from a broken arm to severe burns. 4 are in critical condition. 5 have been ... Lire la suite...
Explosion destroys Babine Forest Products injuring 19
21 Janvier 2012 09:00An explosion and fire destroyed the Babine Forest Products mill near Burns Lake, British Columbia last night. At least 19 people have been sent to the hospital with minor to serious ... Lire la suite...
Alberta Newsprint halts production twice due to soaring power rates
20 Janvier 2012 21:00Alberta Newsprint Company in Whitecourt, Alberta had to halt production twice this week due to soaring power rates in the province. In the extreme cold, demand for power in Alberta ... Lire la suite...
Resolute extends offer for Fibrek
20 Janvier 2012 20:00AbitibiBowater Inc., doing business as Resolute Forest Products, has extended to February 13 the expiry date for its offer to acquire all the issued and outstanding common shares of Fibrek Inc. ... Lire la suite...
Supreme Court of Canada dismisses Catalyst Paper's tax appeal
20 Janvier 2012 20:00The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed Catalyst Paper‘s appeal of their North Cowichan property taxes. The court sided with the district of North Cowichan, saying the community tax ... Lire la suite...
Ontario Auditor General urges tighter oversight of reforestation
20 Janvier 2012 10:00The government should do more to oversee private-sector forest companies to make sure they do an adequate job of successfully reforesting areas where timber has been harvested, Ontario Auditor General ... Lire la suite...
Crofton workers continue negotiations with Catalyst Paper
20 Janvier 2012 09:00Crofton Pulp and Paper workers are still working on a new contract with their employer, Catalyst Paper. At the same time, Catalyst Paper is trying to put together a restructuring ... Lire la suite...
True North Plywood in Cochrane, ON set to re-open
20 Janvier 2012 09:00The True North Plywood plant in Cochrane, Ontario is planning to restart its plywood production in February. The plant has been idled for over a year. The plant was operated ... Lire la suite...
Heavy toll on property taxes as mills close
20 Janvier 2012 08:00The Kenora Daily Miner and News took a look at the impacts being felt on property taxes in northwestern Ontario communities as our mills disappear. Some highlights: Dryden Property owners ... Lire la suite...
Canfor unveils new website
19 Janvier 2012 21:00Canfor Corporation introduced their new corporate website today. Canfor said in a release today that their site has been redesigned to reflect the changing needs of the company and its ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek to oppose AbitibiBowater's application to strike down its shareholder rights plan
19 Janvier 2012 21:00Fibrek Inc. announced today that a hearing before the Bureau de décision et de révision (Québec) (the “BDR”), the administrative tribunal with statutory jurisdiction in securities law ... Lire la suite...
NewPage Port Hawkesbury granted extension
18 Janvier 2012 20:00NewPage Port Hawkesbury was granted an extension to its creditor protection period in court today. The company and its receiver Ernst & Young now have until the end of March to ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper wants to clarify
18 Janvier 2012 15:00Catalyst Paper Corporation announced today that it has applied for and received an initial court order under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) to commence the consensual restructuring process with ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper files for creditor protection in the U.S.
18 Janvier 2012 12:00Catalyst Paper, a Canadian company, has filed for creditor protection in the United States. Under the U.S. bankruptcy law, the Chapter 15 protection that Catalyst Paper filed for grants a ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper in court today. Mill soon to be for sale
18 Janvier 2012 09:00Ernst & Young Inc., receiver and manager for St. Marys Paper, will be court today to seek court approval for their proposed sales process. St. Marys Paper, of Sault Ste. Marie, ... Lire la suite...
Update from Resolute on the status of their offer for Fibrek
17 Janvier 2012 19:00AbitibiBowater Inc., doing business as Resolute Forest Products, hasannounced that it filed an application with the Bureau de révision et décision (Québec), the administrative tribunal with statutory ... Lire la suite...
NewPage Port Hawkesbury asks for 3rd extension
17 Janvier 2012 19:00Tomorrow morning NewPage Port Hawkesbury will ask the court for a 3rd extension to their Stay Period under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) – until March 30, 2012. The company needs additional ... Lire la suite...
Forest Products Sector Council urges collaboration with Aboriginal peoples
17 Janvier 2012 10:00Developing effective, local partnerships with Aboriginal peoples will be a critical factor in helping the Canadian forest products sector address future labour force requirements, according to a new report from ... Lire la suite...
Fortress Paper ramps up production of dissolving pulp
16 Janvier 2012 19:00Fortress Paper Ltd. has ramped up production of dissolving pulp at its Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill in Thurso, Quebec to approximately 60% of final targeted capacity since it announced production of ... Lire la suite...
Richard Garneau to participate in forest industry panel discussion
16 Janvier 2012 16:00Richard Garneau, President and Chief Executive Officer of Resolute Forest Products, will participate in an upcoming panel discussion on transformation in the forest products industry. The panel discussion will occur ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp will not re-open as scheduled; Mill is for sale
16 Janvier 2012 06:00Terrace Bay Pulp will not be restarting operations as scheduled on March 1st. And now the mill is for sale. It is believed that the current owner, The Buchanan Group, ... Lire la suite...
Largest stack pulled down at former Grant Forest Products mill in Timmins
15 Janvier 2012 21:00Demolition is continuing of the former Grant Forest Products waferboard mill in Timmins, Ontario. Today one of the large emission stacks was pulled down. As a precaution, the nearby highway ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst board of directors recommends support for recapitalization transaction
15 Janvier 2012 13:00Catalyst Paper Corporation has announced that the company has entered into an agreement for a recapitalization transaction that will result in a significantly reduced debt burden. Catalyst Paper’s management ... Lire la suite...
Global Sticks working on investor
14 Janvier 2012 11:00Global Sticks, near Thunder Bay, Ontario, is working on getting an investor so the plant can re-open soon. “We're trying to get it opened as soon as we possibly ... Lire la suite...
White Birch Paper declares Stadacona mill closed for good
13 Janvier 2012 20:00White Birch Paper said the overwhelming rejection of its latest contract offer by the labourized work force at its Stradacona mill means the mill is now closed for good. “This ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey plans biomass project
13 Janvier 2012 19:00Bowater Mersey is planning to install equipment to improve the heat recovery from the steam generated at the mill. By recovering this heat, Bowater Mersey would be able to generate 3.3 ... Lire la suite...
Weyerhaeuser sells Miramichi mill
13 Janvier 2012 18:005 years after shutting it down, Weyerhaeuser has sold its Miramichi, New Brunswick mill to Quebec’s Arbec Forest Products. Arbec Forest Products is planning to re-open the mill later this ... Lire la suite...
London, Ontario starts cutting down their ash trees
13 Janvier 2012 08:00The city of London, Ontario has started cutting down nearly 10,000 ash trees from public property because of the emerald ash borer. In the Jalna Boulevard neighbourhood of London, where crews ... Lire la suite...
91% of White Birch Paper employees vote to reject company's offer
12 Janvier 2012 13:00The vote is an overwhelming “NO” at the idled Stadacona Mill in Quebec City. 91% of White Birch Paper‘s employees voted to reject the company’s offer. The Communications, Energy ... Lire la suite...
Ontario Forest Industries Association first participant in Ontario Wood program
12 Janvier 2012 07:00The Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA) is the first participant in Ontario Wood, a new program designed to expand markets for Ontario wood products. The program encourages Ontarians to buy ... Lire la suite...
Another fire at North Enderby Timber
10 Janvier 2012 17:00There has been another fire at North Enderby Timber in British Columbia. The fire broke out early this morning at a planer mill. The entire building housing the planer was ... Lire la suite...
Federal Government spends $500,000 to promote Atlantic Canadian wood
10 Janvier 2012 11:00The Government of Canada is spending $500,000 over two years to encourage the use of Atlantic Canadian wood in regional construction projects. The money will go towards Atlantic WoodWORKS!, an initiative ... Lire la suite...
Polluted harbour near Marathon, Ontario mill will be cleaned up
10 Janvier 2012 08:00Ball Packaging, former owner of Marathon‘s pulp and paper mill, Ontario, and the federal government, will be paying to clean-up Lake Superior’s Peninsula Harbour near Marathon, Ontario this ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products reaffirms its offer for Fibrek Inc.
09 Janvier 2012 21:00AbitibiBowater Inc., doing business as Resolute Forest Products, today announced that it would issue a notice of variation to the offer circular and other ancillary documentation in connection with its ... Lire la suite...
Viridis Energy buys Enligna wood pellet plant in Nova Scotia
08 Janvier 2012 21:00Viridis Energy Inc. of Vancouver has purchased Enligna Canada Inc. wood pellet plant in Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia. The purchase is subject to court approval because Enlinga Canada is in ... Lire la suite...
White Birch Paper Company presents global proposal to union employees of idled Stadacona Mill
07 Janvier 2012 10:00White Birch Paper Company has announced that it has presented a global proposal to the employees of the idled Stadacona mill in Quebec City. Following a thorough analysis of the ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey extends shut down until Jan 16
06 Janvier 2012 18:00Bowater Mersey had extended its shut down until January 16. The extension is being blamed on poor market conditions in Europe. Bowater Mersey’s CEO, Brad Pelley, said “Selling paper in ... Lire la suite...
Crofton Pulp and Paper to revote
06 Janvier 2012 18:00Last week, CEP Local 1132 at the Crofton Pulp and Paper mill in British Columbia voted against a tentative deal with their employer, Catalyst Paper. Details are slim, but it seems ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products sells 25,000 acres of land to Nova Scotia
06 Janvier 2012 14:00Nova Scotia has reached a deal with Resolute Forest Products (formerly AbitibiBowater), to purchase 25,000 acres of land for $23.7 million. This land deal is part of Nova Scotia’s assistance package ... Lire la suite...
Ledwidge Lumber sells 376 hectares to Nova Scotia
05 Janvier 2012 23:00Ledwidge Lumber is selling 376 hectares of woodlands to the province of Nova Scotia for $1 million. The woodland is in the counties of Hants and Halifax in Nova Scotia. The purchase ... Lire la suite...
Campbell River faces tax shortfall after reassessment of the Elk Falls mill site
05 Janvier 2012 20:00Catalyst Paper shut down its Elk Falls mill in Campbell River, British Columbia in 2010. At that time, Campbell River’s major industry tax base came to almost $96 million. In 2011, the ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products appeals tax rate in Fort Frances, Ontario
05 Janvier 2012 19:00Fort Frances, Ontario is awaiting a decision that will have a major impact on their town’s finances. Resolute Forest Products (previously known as AbitibiBowater) has appealed their tax rate ... Lire la suite...
Harmac pulp mill to build electrical generation plant
05 Janvier 2012 09:00Nanaimo Forest Products, owner of the Harmac pulp mill in British Columbia, is building an electrical generation plant at the mill. The company reached a 15 year deal with B.C. ... Lire la suite...
Who is Ron Stern, and what are his plans for the Port Hawkesbury mill?
05 Janvier 2012 00:00Ron Stern, president of Stern Partners Inc., has been identified as the man behind Pacific West Commerical Corp‘s winning bid for the Port Hawkesbury mill in Nova Scotia. Who ... Lire la suite...
Pacific West Commercial Corp. is the winning bidder for NewPage Port Hawkesbury
04 Janvier 2012 16:00Pacific West Commercial Corporation is the successful bidder for the idled NewPage Port Hawkesbury operation in Nova Scotia. The bid is now subject to meet several conditions, as well as ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek files Director's Circular rejecting the AbitibiBowater insider bid
03 Janvier 2012 08:00Fibrek Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors filed its Directors’ Circular on December 30, 2011 recommending that Fibrek shareholders REJECT the AbitibiBowater Inc. (doing business as Resolute Forest Products) unsolicited ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper in receivership
01 Janvier 2012 10:00On December 30, 2011 at 9am, St. Marys Paper of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario fell into receivership after failing to provide proof of sufficient insurance coverage to the court. The Ontario Superior ... Lire la suite...
Successful bidder for NewPage Port Hawkesbury to be made public next week
30 Décembre 2011 15:00Today Ernst & Young is meeting with the four remaining bidders for the NewPage Port Hawkesbury mill today and is expected to publicly announce next week the identify of the successful ... Lire la suite...
Letter: Concerns about Abitibi
25 Décembre 2011 15:00A message found in the ForestTalk.com inbox on this Christmas Day: To Whom it May Concern, On December 15th, 2011 Resolute Forest Products (aka Abitibi Bowater) announced that they would ... Lire la suite...
Fred Pinto, northern Ontario forester, shortlisted for United Nations Forest Hero Award
22 Décembre 2011 10:00Fred Pinto has been shortlisted for the United Nations International Year of Forests – Forest Heroes Award, one of only three individuals being considered for the prestigious North American category. ... Lire la suite...
Global Sticks has new business plan, hope to be back in business in January
22 Décembre 2011 08:00Global Sticks of the Thunder Bay, Ontario area, is hopeful their new business plan will be the key to reopening their operation in January. Global Sticks president, Reggie Nukovic, said ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products temporarily closes kraft mill in Thunder Bay over the holidays
19 Décembre 2011 19:00Resolute Forest Products is temporarily closing its kraft mill in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The mill will shut down on Friday and is scheduled to restart on January 2, 2012. Paper making operations ... Lire la suite...
Former Pope & Talbot workers launch class-action lawsuit for pension money
19 Décembre 2011 19:00A group of 88 retired Pope & Talbot workers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the province of British Columbia. The group of 88, that includes about 50 former Harmac pulp mill employees, are ... Lire la suite...
Canadian/American Resolute Forest Products workers unite
19 Décembre 2011 12:00American and Canadian union members who work for forest industry giant Resolute Forest Products (formerly AbitibiBowater) have joined forces to “speak with one voice” to the company. About 100 union delegates ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek's Board rejects unsolicited insider bid by AbitibiBowater
19 Décembre 2011 09:00Fibrek Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has unanimously REJECTED the unsolicited insider bid of AbitibiBowater Inc. (carrying on business as Resolute Forest Products) for all issued and ... Lire la suite...
Freedom of information requests expose fines in B.C.'s forest industry
19 Décembre 2011 08:00The Vancouver Sun has been investigating salvage logging of pine forests in British Columbia. Through freedom of information requests, The Vancouver Sun has uncovered documents relating to compliance-and-enforcement action taken ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products extends shutdown in Fort Frances, Ontario
16 Décembre 2011 19:00Resolute Forest Products (formerly known as AbitibiBowater) is extending the shutdown at its mill in Fort Frances, Ontario. At the end of November, the company announced they would be curtailing ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper skips $21 million interest payment due today
15 Décembre 2011 10:00Catalyst Paper Corporation has announced that, together with its financial advisor Perella Weinberg Partners, the company is continuing to review alternatives to address its capital structure. Debt reduction has been ... Lire la suite...
Domtar announces an increase to its share buyback program to one billion dollars
15 Décembre 2011 10:00Domtar Corporation has announced that its Board of Directors authorized an increase to its share buyback program of $400 million. The original program announced on May 5, 2010 now has an aggregate authorization ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products announces commencement of formal take-over bid for Fibrek
15 Décembre 2011 08:00AbitibiBowater Inc., doing business as Resolute Forest Products, announced today that it has formally commenced its offer to purchase all the issued and outstanding common shares of Fibrek Inc. The ... Lire la suite...
Fellow union workers donate $20,000 to NewPage Port Hawkesbury workers
13 Décembre 2011 12:00Fellow pulp and paper workers have donated $20,000 to the idled workers of NewPage Port Hawkesbury in Nova Scotia. Mark MacLaughlin, president of Local 440 of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union, ... Lire la suite...
CelluForce starts operations in Windsor, Quebec
12 Décembre 2011 22:00Members of the board, management and employees of CelluForce are pleased to announce the end of the construction phase and the start of operations at the first manufacturing plant for ... Lire la suite...
Court sides with White Birch, Stradacona mill closes
12 Décembre 2011 08:00The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) believed the closure of the White Birch Paper Stradacona newsprint mill in Quebec City is a lockout in disguise because the union was ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey lays off 20 non-unionized workers, 33 union workers take severance package
10 Décembre 2011 18:00Bowater Mersey laid off 20 non-unionized workers yesterday. Pierre Choquette, a spokesman for Resolute Forest Products, told CBC News on Friday that non-union jobs are being cut as part of the ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia's PC party perplexed why NDP refuse to support Pension Benefits Act
09 Décembre 2011 09:00Inverness MLA Allan MacMaster says he’s shocked at the NDP’s refusal to support and protect NewPage Port Hawkesbury pensioners. MacMaster brought forward amendments to the Pension Benefits Act ... Lire la suite...
Canfor retires its crane in Grande Prairie, Alberta
09 Décembre 2011 09:00Canfor has retired the tall crane that stands tall above Grande Prairie, Alberta’s southwest end. The $3.5 million crane had operated for 25 years, but is no longer required since Canfor ... Lire la suite...
Moody's downgrades the world's paper and forest products industry
09 Décembre 2011 08:00Moody’s Investors Service Inc. said yesterday that the next year or two for the world’s paper and forest products industry is going to be rough. Moody’s expects ... Lire la suite...
Ligni Bel fights $85K penalty from Nova Scotia Power
09 Décembre 2011 08:00Ligni Bel Ltd. had a hearing with the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board yesterday to fight the $85,000 penalty its sawmill was fined for ignoring an emergency request to shut ... Lire la suite...
Kitwanga Lumber applies for bankruptcy protection
08 Décembre 2011 09:00Kitwanga Lumber Co. Ltd. has applied for bankruptcy protection. Kitwanga Lumber is a subsidiary of Pacific BioEnergy Corporation. Pacific BioEnergy purchased the Kitwanga sawmill in northwestern British Columbia out of ... Lire la suite...
Alberta Forest Products Association members produce $548 million of product in 3rd quarter
08 Décembre 2011 08:00Values of lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper manufactured by Alberta Forest Products Association-member companies totaled approximately $548 million for the 3rd quarter of 2011. The value of production was down roughly $2 million ... Lire la suite...
PRT announces new corporate identity
07 Décembre 2011 14:00PRT Growing Services Ltd., North America’s largest producer of container-grown forest seedlings, today unveiled a refreshed corporate identity. The new logo and positioning statement, Trusted to grow, better reflect ... Lire la suite...
Saskatchewan contributing $150,000 for mountian pine beetle fight in Alberta
06 Décembre 2011 13:00Saskatchewan will be contributing $150,000 to the fight against mountain pine beetle in Alberta. The funding will be provided as part of a multi-year agreement with the Government of Alberta that ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper wins tax appeal
06 Décembre 2011 08:00St. Marys Paper of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario has won a property tax appeal. The company appealed its property assessment for 2006, 2007, and 2008. An assessment board has ruled that the total ... Lire la suite...
Canfor permanently closes Rustad and Tackama operations
05 Décembre 2011 19:00After a lengthy indefinite shut that followed the collapse of the United States residential housing market in 2008, Canfor Corporation has decided to close its historic Rustad Sawmill in Prince George, ... Lire la suite...
Harmac's workers receive their first dividend cheque
05 Décembre 2011 08:00Approximately 300 workers at the Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, British Columbia received their first dividend cheques last week. The workers each invested $25,000 into Nanaimo Forest Products to become part-owners of ... Lire la suite...
Ontario Minister of Natural Resources clarifies Global Sticks and its wood supply issue
03 Décembre 2011 20:00Global Sticks, a manufacturer of value added wood products like popsicle sticks and tongue depressors, recently closed their operation in Thunder Bay, Ontario, laying off most of their employees while ... Lire la suite...
CEP praises Nova Scotia government
02 Décembre 2011 15:00“The Government of Nova Scotia has shown leadership and commitment to the people it represents by stepping up to the plate to save hundreds of jobs at the Bowater ... Lire la suite...
Provincial money for Bowater Mersey – details
02 Décembre 2011 12:00Premier Darrell Dexter is in Liverpool, Nova Scotia this afternoon to make a multi-million dollar announcement for the Bowater Mersey mill. Details that we know so far: 5 year, $26.5 million announcement ... Lire la suite...
Abfam sawmill has new timber supply and moves to year round operation
01 Décembre 2011 21:00The Abfam sawmill, in Port Clements on Haida Gwaii, B.C., will soon be operating year round, thanks to a new timber supply. The family-based operation has only been running ... Lire la suite...
Province of Nova Scotia will be making a Bowater Mersey announcement tomorrow
01 Décembre 2011 20:00Nova Scotia‘s Premier Darrell Dexter is heading to Liverpool, Nova Scotia tomorrow to make an announcement. Dexter has hinted to media that he will be making an announcement of ... Lire la suite...
Another bidder identified for NewPage Port Hawkesbury
30 Novembre 2011 15:00Stern Partners has been identified as a bidder for the NewPage Port Hawkesbury paper mill in Nova Scotia. Stern Partners is a Vancouver based investment company that has invested in ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products issues 2010 Sustainability Report
30 Novembre 2011 09:00Resolute Forest Products has issued its 2010 Sustainability Report, reviewing company performance in key areas such as environmental impact, stakeholder engagement, product stewardship, fiber sourcing, community relations, human resources, and health ... Lire la suite...
Alberta making progress against the mountain pine beetle
30 Novembre 2011 08:00Aerial surveys show Alberta is making progress in its fight against mountain pine beetle infestations in some parts of the province. This year's aerial surveys show about 50% fewer red beetle-killed ... Lire la suite...
NewPage Port Hawkesbury gets timeline extension to sell mill
29 Novembre 2011 10:00This morning the Nova Scotia Supreme Court has approved an extension to NewPage Port Hawkesbury‘s creditor protection period. Now the company has until January 20, 2012 to sell the Cape Breton ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey and NewPage Port Hawkesbury get 3 year power rate break
29 Novembre 2011 09:00It isn’t the 5 year power rate break they had requested, but Bowater Mersey and NewPage Port Hawkesbury in Nova Scotia will be receiving a 3 year break on their power ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek acknowledge's Resolute Forest Product's unsolicited take-over bid
29 Novembre 2011 08:00Overnight, Fibrek Inc. put out a press release acknowledging Resolute Forest Product‘s (formerly known as AbitibiBowater) unsolicited offer to acquire Fibrek. In the release, Fibrek said their Board of ... Lire la suite...
Global Sticks wants a $2 million bailout
28 Novembre 2011 20:00Global Sticks, of Thunder Bay, Ontario, wants a $2 million bailout to stay afloat. The plant uses birch to make value added wood products – like sticks for popsicles, ice cream bars, ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products plans take-over bid for Fibrek
28 Novembre 2011 20:00Resolute Forest Products (previously known as AbitibiBowater) intends to make a formal take-over bid to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Fibrek Inc. “The acquisition of ... Lire la suite...
FPInnovations and Western Forest Products introduce a new green and cost-effective sound reduction product
28 Novembre 2011 18:00A new wood sound abatement system made of B.C. Coastal hem-fir and developed by FPInnovations and Western Forest Products is providing municipalities with a natural, sustainable option to reduce ... Lire la suite...
Canfor to buy Tembec's wood product assets in southern B.C.
28 Novembre 2011 18:00Canfor Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Tembec Industries Ltd.'s southern British Columbia interior wood products assets, for a purchase price including working capital of $60 million. Canfor will ... Lire la suite...
NewPage under bankrupcty protection, but still wants a $3 million payout for 15 executives
28 Novembre 2011 12:00NewPage Corporation may be under bankruptcy protection, but that hasn’t stopped the company from filing a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court asking for approval for $3 million in ... Lire la suite...
UNBC offers free courses for unemployed workers
27 Novembre 2011 20:00The University of Northern British Columbia is offering two free programs through its Employment Skills Access Program, funded by the Canada-British Columbia Labour Market Agreement. The programs offered are: Geographic ... Lire la suite...
Tembec closes sale of hardwood flooring assets
25 Novembre 2011 21:00Tembec has closed the sale of its Toronto, Ontario flooring plant assets and its Muskoka and Vintage brands that was announced earlier this week. A private company, part of Boa-Franc ... Lire la suite...
Fire at NorSask Forest Products
25 Novembre 2011 21:00A fire occurred at the NorSask Forest Products sawmill near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan on November 17. The fire started in the dry kiln control room and caused structural and electrical damage ... Lire la suite...
Dark plume from Northern Pulp caused by tripped boiler
25 Novembre 2011 21:00On Thursday a dark plume of smoke was released from the Northern Pulp mill in Nova Scotia (see photo from the Halifax Media Co-op). Don Breen, vice-president at Northern Pulp, ... Lire la suite...
Poll: Should Provinces be in the financing business?
25 Novembre 2011 15:00This morning we learned that the province of Nova Scotia may be about to provide debtor in possession financing to NewPage Port Hawkesbury to keep the mill in a hot ... Lire la suite...
NewPage Port Hawkesbury seeks extension to creditor protection period
25 Novembre 2011 08:00NewPage Port Hawkesbury filed a motion with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court yesterday asking the court to extend its period of creditor protection. The motion will be heard on Tuesday. ... Lire la suite...
Coast Tsimshian Resources signs contract to sell logs to Chinese company
25 Novembre 2011 08:00Coast Tsimshian Resources has signed a contract to sell 150,000 cubic metres of logs to Fujian Hijong Wood Industry Co. Ltd. of Putian, China. Wayne Drury, Coast Tsimshian's general manager, said ... Lire la suite...
Global Sticks update
25 Novembre 2011 08:00The president of Global Sticks has finally confirmed what was publicly assumed – the company is in trouble. Reggie Nukovic, president of Global Sticks, said the plant near Thunder Bay, Ontario ... Lire la suite...
Resolute Forest Products curtails paper making in Fort Frances for the rest of the year
24 Novembre 2011 11:00Resolute Forest Products, previously known as AbitibiBowater, is curtailing its Fort Frances, Ontario paper machines for the rest of the year. The downtime will start next week. 100 employees will be ... Lire la suite...
Sampson family now owns close to 50% of Harmac pulp mill
24 Novembre 2011 09:00The Sampson Group now owns just less than 50% of the Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, British Columbia, giving the Sampson family the controlling share of the mill. The employees own 25% ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp announces 3 months of downtime
23 Novembre 2011 13:00Terrace Bay Pulp has decided to take 3 months of downtime, starting on November 30. There had been rumours for months that the pulp mill was struggling. Terrace Bay’s mayor, Mike ... Lire la suite...
Canfor's Polar sawmill still down after fire
23 Novembre 2011 08:00Canfor‘s Polar Sawmill in Bear Lake, British Columbia is now expected to be down until Monday after Sunday’s fire at the facility. Initially it was hoped two shifts ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber planning 2 biomass-powered plants in B.C.
23 Novembre 2011 08:00West Fraser Timber Company is considering building identical, biomass-powered generation plants at two of its subsidiaries in British Columbia. The plants are being planned in response to BC Hydro’s “... Lire la suite...
Conifex reports net loss of $2.2 million in third quarter
23 Novembre 2011 08:00Conifex Timber Inc. is reporting a net loss of $2.2 million in its third quarter on sales of $38.2 million. Current quarter net loss improved by $1.4 million over the previous quarter. Net ... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership partners with College of New Caledonia for training opportunities
21 Novembre 2011 19:00Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (CPLP) has entered into a strategic partnership with the College of New Caledonia (CNC) in British Columbia. The agreement means the College of New Caledonia will ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Canfor's Polar Sawmill in Bear Lake, B.C.
21 Novembre 2011 19:00There was a fire yesterday at Canfor‘s Polar Sawmill in Bear Lake, British Columbia. The fire started near a canter line around 5:30pm while welding work was underway. The ... Lire la suite...
Tembec sells hardwood floor assets, closes flooring plant in Huntsville, Ontario
21 Novembre 2011 15:00Tembec has reached an agreement with a private company to sell its Toronto, Ontario flooring plant assets along with its Muskoka and Vintage brands. The closing of this transaction is ... Lire la suite...
Global Sticks of Thunder Bay, ON seems to be short on cash
21 Novembre 2011 10:00Global Sticks seems to be having financial difficulties. Global Sticks, of Thunder Bay, Ontario, uses birch wood to make value added products, like sticks used for ice cream bars, popsicles, ... Lire la suite...
CEP plans court challenge to White Birch Paper closure in Quebec
18 Novembre 2011 20:00The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) believes the recently announced closure of the White Birch Paper Stradacona newsprint mill in Quebec City is a lockout in disguise because the ... Lire la suite...
Wood First commitments in 40 local governments in B.C.
18 Novembre 2011 20:00British Columbia’s Wood Enterprise Coalition (WEC) today congratulated Regional District of Kootenay Boundary on the passage of its new Wood First Resolution in support of the province’s Wood ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia's lumber producers have filed their statement of defense in latest softwood lumber round
18 Novembre 2011 19:00British Columbia‘s lumber producers have filed their statement of defense against the U.S. allegations that Canada is exporting mountain pine beetle lumber at unfairly low prices. Their statement ... Lire la suite...
Kruger's paperboard mill in Montréal receives FSC® Chain of Custody certification
17 Novembre 2011 20:00Kruger Inc. today announced that its Place Turcot paperboard mill in Montréal has been awarded Chain of Custody (CoC) certification by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®). The certificate, issued ... Lire la suite...
Tembec's $190 million investment in cogeneration in Témiscamingue
17 Novembre 2011 13:00Tembec is investing $190 million into a cogeneration project at its Témiscamingue facility in Quebec. The cogeneration project will replace three old boilers with one modern high-pressure unit burning liquors ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey gets tax break
17 Novembre 2011 13:00The Region of Queens Municipality in Nova Scotia has voted today to give the Bowater Mersey mill a moderate tax break of 15%, or approximately $135,000/yr over 10 years. Mayor John Leefe ... Lire la suite...
Conifex proceeds with acquisition of lumber distribution and transportation businesses
16 Novembre 2011 23:00Conifex Timber Inc. has announced that, further to its previously announced letter of intent, it has, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the commodity lumber ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's compensation package for their new Chief Financial Officer
16 Novembre 2011 23:00Jo-Ann Longworth took over the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AbitibiBowater (now Resolute Forest Products) when William G. Harvey stepped down from the position on ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey workers vote in favour of concessions
16 Novembre 2011 20:00The unionized workers of Bowater Mersey have voted ‘Yes’ tonight. The vote was very close. 51.7% voted in favour of the job cuts and concessions. More soon… Posted by ForestTalk.comPosted ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber Corp. posts another loss; Significant doubt company can continue as a going concern
16 Novembre 2011 20:00EACOM Timber Corporation has posted a net loss of $604,000 in its third quarter of 2011, compared to a net loss of $9.2 million in the same quarter in 2010. The improvement over the ... Lire la suite...
White Birch Paper Company idles Stradacona Mill in Quebec City
16 Novembre 2011 18:00White Birch Paper Company has announced that it will cease production temporarily at its Stadacona paper mill, in Quebec City, commencing December 9, 2011. White Birch will review the viability of the ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey vote tonight
16 Novembre 2011 09:00Just two years into their five year contract with their employer, the workers of Bowater Mersey have been asked to vote on a new contract tonight. Resolute Forest Products (formerly ... Lire la suite...
Forest Innovation by Research and Education (FIBRE) unveiled
15 Novembre 2011 17:00FIBRE, or Forest Innovation by Research and Education, is the newly created organization that has been structured to build synergies among eight Forest Sector University R&D Networks funded by ... Lire la suite...
New woodlot license available near Gold River, B.C.
15 Novembre 2011 12:00The province of British Columbia has made a new woodlot license available near Gold River, British Columbia. Woodlot licences are small, area-based tenures that combine private land with up to 800 ... Lire la suite...
Tembec reports net loss of $17 million in its latest quarter
15 Novembre 2011 10:00Tembec has posted a net loss of $17 million on consolidated sales of $421 million. Operating earnings before depreciation, amortization and other specific or non-recurring items (EBITDA) was $19 million for the three-month ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper posts net loss of $205.7 million in third quarter
15 Novembre 2011 08:00Catalyst Paper has posted a a net loss of $205.7 million on sales of $340.3 million during the third quarter of 2011. The net loss was largely due to a $151.0 million impairment charge ... Lire la suite...
Stella-Jones reports net income of $16.6 million in third quarter
11 Novembre 2011 16:00Stella-Jones has reported a net income of $16.6 million in their latest quarter. “Stella-Jones continues to benefit from robust investment in the North American rail and electrical utility infrastructure, which led ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reports net income of $7.6 million in third quarter
11 Novembre 2011 12:00Western Forest Products has announced a $7.6 million net income in its third quarter of 2011. EBITDA was $18.1 million in the quarter which is a significant increase over the $11.8 million achieved in ... Lire la suite...
PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund files last quarterly report
11 Novembre 2011 12:00PRT Growing Services Ltd. has announced third quarter results for the PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund. This is the last quarterly report for the PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund as, ... Lire la suite...
Canada and B.C. Announce Funding for Canada-Tohoku Reconstruction Project
11 Novembre 2011 12:00The Honourable Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Steve Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations for British Columbia, and representatives from Canada’s ... Lire la suite...
Cascades reports net loss of $19 million in third quarter
10 Novembre 2011 09:00Cascades Inc. has reported a loss of $19 million in the third quarter of 2011. In the same quarter last year, Cascades reported a profit of $24 million. Highlights of Cascades third quarter: ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater/Resolute Forest Products works on its environmental reputation
10 Novembre 2011 09:00The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is welcoming Resolute Forest Products (AbitibiBowater) as the the newest member of its prestigious Climate Savers program. The WWF describes Resolute Forest Products as an “... Lire la suite...
FPAC pleased with Government's recent promotion of Canadian wood in Asia
09 Novembre 2011 13:00The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased that the Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, has promoted Canadian wood frame construction as environmentally friendly and energy efficient during ... Lire la suite...
Taan Forest achieves FSC certification on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
09 Novembre 2011 13:00Taan Forest, owned by the Haida Enterprise Corporation of Haida Gwaii, in British Columbia, has successfully achieved Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. “This investment by the Haida people in ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth Lumber records net loss in third quarter
09 Novembre 2011 08:00Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has recorded a net loss from continuing operations of $58.9 million in the third quarter of 2011 compared to net income of $10.5 million in the third quarter of 2010. ... Lire la suite...
Pulp mill closures in Nova Scotia now affecting sawmills and private woodlot owners
09 Novembre 2011 08:00With NewPage Port Hawkesbury closed and for sale, and with the future of Bowater Mersey very uncertain, Nova Scotia’s sawmills and private woodlot owners are feeling the effects. Recent ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp should reopen by the weekend
08 Novembre 2011 10:00Operations are expected to resume at Terrace Bay Pulp by this weekend. The mill has been shut down since the explosion on October 31 of the large blow tank killed one ... Lire la suite...
Logging truck drivers on strike in Fort St. John, B.C.
08 Novembre 2011 09:00Logging truck drivers are on strike and stopped all wood delivery yesterday to the Canfor and Peace Vally OSB plants in Fort St. John, British Columbia. The truck drivers are ... Lire la suite...
Tolko truckers took job action yesterday morning
08 Novembre 2011 09:00Logging truck drivers working for Tolko took job action in British Columbia yesterday morning. Up to 60 drivers that deliver to a number of Tolko’s operations, including White Valley, Lavington, ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater becomes Resolute Forest Products today
07 Novembre 2011 09:00AbitibiBowater is attempting to wipe the slate clean by re-branding itself with a new name and identity today. AbitibiBowater is now known as Resolute Forest Products. “The launch of our ... Lire la suite...
Superior Fine Papers has not removed chemicals from site
05 Novembre 2011 18:00Once again, dangerous chemicals have been left behind in a closed paper mill with no power, no heat, and with winter approaching. This time it is the Cascades/Thunder Bay ... Lire la suite...
Minas Basin Pulp and Paper reduces workforce 8%
04 Novembre 2011 08:00Minas Basin Pulp and Paper in Hantsport, Nova Scotia announced it is reducing its workforce by 8%. “Yesterday we made the tough decision to reduce our workforce in the order of ... Lire la suite...
Interfor posts quarterly results and announces upgrades for Castlegar and Grand Forks
03 Novembre 2011 19:00International Forest Products (Interfor) has reported a net income of $6,000 in the third quarter of 2011. Sales revenue in the third quarter was $200.2 million, up $12.0 million or 6.4% versus the second quarter, ... Lire la suite...
1 pilot, 2 Tembec workers killed in helicopter crash near Kapuskasing, Ontario
02 Novembre 2011 21:00A helicopter crashed near Kapuskasing, Ontario this morning, killing all 3 men on-board. The men have been identified as: Pilot Greg Sawyer, 39, of North Bay, Ontario Dan Simis, 47, of Val Rita, ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater says it will close Bowater Mersey without help from its employees and the province
02 Novembre 2011 12:00AbitibiBowater has delivered an ultimatum. The province of Nova Scotia, and its employees, need to come up with a profitable plan for their Bowater Mersey mill, or it will close. ... Lire la suite...
New toonie will celebrate Canada's boreal forest
02 Novembre 2011 11:00The Royal Canadian Mint is producing a new 2011 two-dollar Canadian coin honouring Canada’s Boreal Forest. This new toonie is the second coin in a 5 coin set celebrating the outdoors. 5 ... Lire la suite...
Update on explosion at Terrace Bay Pulp
02 Novembre 2011 10:00Local residents have identified TJ Berthelot as the victim of Monday’s explosion at Terrace Bay Pulp. TJ Berthelot was from nearby Schreiber, Ontario. In his late twenties, Berthelot leaves ... Lire la suite...
Four bidders still in the running for NewPage Port Hawkesbury
02 Novembre 2011 10:00Ernst & Young, court appointed monitors overseeing the creditor protection period for NewPage Port Hawkesbury, has told a Nova Scotia court this morning that they have only narrowed the list of ... Lire la suite...
Kitwanga sawmill closes temporarily
02 Novembre 2011 09:00The Kitwanga sawmill in northwestern British Columbia just opened in June, but due to a swift decline in lumber demand, the mill is already taking downtime. “We started the ... Lire la suite...
Wrap-up of the Ontario forest fire season for 2011
01 Novembre 2011 19:002011 was a busy fire season for Ontario. Ontario experienced 1,330 fires affecting 632,533 hectares. Much of the area burned in Ontario in 2011 was due to a handful of very large fires. In ... Lire la suite...
Slave Lake wildfires likely arson
01 Novembre 2011 13:00The wildfires that devastated the town of Slave Lake, Alberta in May may have been arson. The Government of Alberta has turned over all information about the fire to RCMP ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey schedules downtime
01 Novembre 2011 12:00Downtime has been scheduled for Bowater Mersey Paper Company Ltd for November 14 – 21, and tentatively for December 19 – January 2. Bowater Mersey employs 278 people and operates two paper machines in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's CEO prepared to forgo his $1.7 million bonus to make a point
01 Novembre 2011 09:00Richard Garneau, CEO of AbitibiBowater, said his top priority is the long-term success of the company and he is “prepared to forgo $1.7 million in personal compensation this year to make [... Lire la suite...
Explosion at Terrace Bay Pulp?
31 Octobre 2011 20:00There are reports tonight that there may have been an explosion at Terrace Bay Pulp, in Terrace Bay, Ontario late this afternoon. Emergency crews are at the scene. This story ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater reports net loss of $44 million in third quarter
31 Octobre 2011 08:00AbiitibBowater has reported a net loss of $44 million in its third quarter of 2011 on sales of $1.2 billion. This compares with a net loss of $829 million on sales of $1.2 billion in ... Lire la suite...
Paper Excellence is one of the bidders for NewPage Port Hawkesbury
29 Octobre 2011 10:00Halifax’s Chronicle Herald is reporting this morning that Paper Excellence Canada is one of the 8 bidders for the NewPage Port Hawkesbury mill. Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Corp., a subsidiary ... Lire la suite...
Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal decides on cleanup responsibilities for Marathon Pulp
28 Octobre 2011 23:00Back in September we learned that the Ontario Ministry of Environment, former mill co-owner Tembec, and other unnamed “parties” reached a tentative settlement regarding the environmental cleanup of the ... Lire la suite...
Acadian Timber reports third quarter loss of $341K
28 Octobre 2011 10:00Acadian Timber Corp. has reported a loss of $341,000 in its third quarter of 2011. Acadian generated net sales of $17.5 million on sales volume of 341 thousand m3, which represents a $0.3 million, or 2%, ... Lire la suite...
Canfor reports net quarterly loss of $9.6 million
28 Octobre 2011 10:00Canfor Corporation has posted a net loss of $9.6 million in the third quarter of 2011, compared to net income of $26.2 million for the second quarter of 2011 and net income of $37.2 million ... Lire la suite...
Why the ‘Occupy' movement? A true story
28 Octobre 2011 08:00Letter to the editor I worked at the Fraser Papers’ mill in Edmundston, New Brunswick for 36 years. On each pay cheque, I contributed a portion of my wages to the ... Lire la suite...
Norbord reports loss of $1 million in third quarter
28 Octobre 2011 08:00Norbord Inc. is reporting a loss of $1 million in the third quarter of 2011 compared to earnings of $1 million in the second quarter of 2011. In the third quarter of 2010, Norbord reported ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper workers give the company until January to restart the mill
28 Octobre 2011 08:00The workers of St. Marys Paper in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario are giving their employer until January 31, 2012 to restart or sell the mill before they plan to launch legal action ... Lire la suite...
$350K for independent woodlot owners in eastern Nova Scotia
27 Octobre 2011 11:00The province of Nova Scotia is following up on a commitment in the province’s new natural resources strategy to help Nova Scotia woodlot owners manage their properties ecologically and ... Lire la suite...
Domtar posts net earnings of $117 million in third quarter
27 Octobre 2011 08:00Domtar Corp. has posted net earnings of $117 million in their third quarter. For comparison, Domtar reported net earnings of $54 million in the second quarter of 2011 and net earnings of $191 million ... Lire la suite...
Who wants to buy NewPage Port Hawkesbury?
26 Octobre 2011 19:00Their identifies are not public, but we do know now that 8 bidders have firmed up their interest for the idled NewPage Port Hawkesbury operation with a $250,000 deposit. The court appointed ... Lire la suite...
Cheslatta Forest Products mill officially closed
26 Octobre 2011 10:00Cheslatta Forest Products Ltd. has officially closed its mill in British Columbia. The mill started full time production back in 2001. The sawmill ceased operations in October 2008. The shutdown was thought ... Lire la suite...
J.D. Irving closing Doaktown and Kedgwick sawmills in New Brunswick
25 Octobre 2011 22:00J.D. Irving is temporarily closing its sawmills in Kedgwick and Doaktown, New Brunswick. Kedgwick will close between December 2 and spring, 2012. Doaktown will close between December 23 and February 23, 2012. There will ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey asks for power rate discount
24 Octobre 2011 18:00Bowater Mersey attended a Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board hearing today in Halifax to plead their case for a special 5 year electricity rate discount. Both Bowater Mersey Paper Company ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber reports net earnings of $6 million in third quarter
24 Octobre 2011 18:00West Fraser Timber has reported its third quarter results today. Net profit for the quarter was $6 million from continuing operations, or $37 million in profit after discontinued operations (sale of the ... Lire la suite...
Northern Pulp works on 3 Green Transformation projects during shutdown
22 Octobre 2011 20:00Northern Pulp will wrap up its scheduled maintenance shutdown on Monday. Starting on October 16, the mill has been busy working on three major Green Transformation projects during this shutdown: A ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia's new Natural Resource Road Act Project
21 Octobre 2011 08:00The Government of British Columbia is inviting its citizens to to comment on a policy project for better regulation of natural resource roads. The Natural Resource Road Act Project aims ... Lire la suite...
First Nations want to dissolve Two Feathers Forest Products initiative
21 Octobre 2011 08:00Two Feathers Forest Products is a partnership formed in 2008 between Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation, Pikangikum First Nation, Eagle Lake First Nation, and the Wood Tech Group from Finland with the ... Lire la suite...
Ontario puts Forestry back in Natural Resources
20 Octobre 2011 21:00In September 2009, the Government of Ontario removed the role of Forestry from its Ministry of Natural Resources and realigned the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines to include Forestry. The ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Domtar's mill in Dryden, Ontario
20 Octobre 2011 13:00CKDR Dryden is reporting that quick work by mill crews and the Dryden Fire Service this morning prevented a major fire at Domtar‘s mill in northwestern Ontario. The fire ... Lire la suite...
Update on injured workers in Thunder Bay
20 Octobre 2011 09:00The two AbitibiBowater workers who were injured in Thunder Bay on Tuesday have been released from the hospital. The workers were injured when a grinder hood fell from a maintenance ... Lire la suite...
Two AbitibiBowater workers injured in Thunder Bay
18 Octobre 2011 21:00Two workers at AbitibiBowater‘s sawmill in Thunder Bay, Ontario were injured today after an overhead crane collapsed. The accident occurred on the third floor of one of the buildings ... Lire la suite...
Emerald ash borer range expanding in Ontario
17 Octobre 2011 20:00An emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) has been found in a trap just 6km south of Bruce County in southern Ontario. Until a beetle is officially found in the twin ... Lire la suite...
Transformative Technology – Pilot Scale Demonstration Program announcements in Quebec
13 Octobre 2011 21:00Today the Government of Canada made two announcements through the Transformative Technology – Pilot Scale Demonstration Program in Quebec. Tembec in Temiscaming, Quebec, is receiving $3.5 million in a joint project ... Lire la suite...
Alberta-Pacific receives $4.5 million through the Forest Industry Transformation Program
13 Octobre 2011 20:00The Government of Canada is providing a $4.5 million investment for Alberta-Pacific in Boyle, Alberta. The investment is coming from the Forest Industry Transformation Program. Alberta-Pacific will use the investment to ... Lire la suite...
Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program investments announced
13 Octobre 2011 20:00The Government of Canada has made $41.9 million in funding announcements through their Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. West Fraser Mills Ltd. of Quesnel, British Columbia is receiving $2 million for ... Lire la suite...
J.D. Irving closes Deersdale sawmill in New Brunswick
13 Octobre 2011 13:00J.D. Irving is closing its Deersdale sawmill near Juniper, New Brunswick on October 28. 65 unionized workers, and 8 staff members, will be on layoff. Irving spokeswoman Mary Keith said “Where we ... Lire la suite...
Cascades decides to close Norampac plant in Le Gardeur, Quebec
12 Octobre 2011 20:00Cascades is continuing to consolidate its operations, by announcing the closure of its Norampac plant in Le Gardeur, Quebec. The Le Gardeur plant is specialized in the conversion of corrugated ... Lire la suite...
Unionized workers of St. Marys Paper schedule meeting to discuss options
12 Octobre 2011 14:00The workers of St. Marys Paper in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario have scheduled a meeting for October 18. The mill hasn’t operated since the spring. The workers are frustrated and ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products to sell Tree Farm Licence 60 to the Taan Forest Limited Partnership
11 Octobre 2011 21:00Western Forest Products Inc. has reached an agreement to sell its Tree Farm Licence 60 and related assets on Haida Gwaii to Taan Forest Limited Partnership, a partnership of the Council ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater appoints Silvana Travaglini as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
11 Octobre 2011 20:00AbitibiBowater Inc. has appointed Silvana Travaglini as vice president and chief accounting officer, effective November 15, 2011. Mrs. Travaglini, age 45, was previously employed with Société générale de financement du ... Lire la suite...
Stella-Jones intends to acquire Thompson Industries
11 Octobre 2011 10:00Stella-Jones Inc. today announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire Thompson Industries, Inc., a provider of treated wood products to the railroad industry. The letter ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Changing Name to Resolute Forest Products
11 Octobre 2011 09:00AbitibiBowater announced today that it will change the company name to Resolute Forest Products as of November 7, 2011. “We are changing our name to Resolute Forest Products to better reflect the ... Lire la suite...
Tembec sells its closed Pine Falls mill in Manitoba
07 Octobre 2011 13:00Tembec announced today that Pine Falls Development Corporation (PFDC) has acquired the Tembec Pine Falls, Manitoba mill property and assets. PFDC is an investment project of NRI Global Inc., a ... Lire la suite...
Conifex Timber amends schedule for energy supply contract in B.C.
06 Octobre 2011 13:00Conifex Timber Inc. has announced that it has entered into an agreement modifying certain terms of its Electricity Purchase Agreement with BC Hydro from its bioenergy operation in Mackenzie, British ... Lire la suite...
List of bidders for NewPage Port Hawkesbury reduced from 21 to 14
05 Octobre 2011 12:00A few NewPage Port Hawkesbury updates: List of bidders has been further reduced from 21 to 14 NewPage Port Hawkesbury has had their court protection from creditors extended until December 9 Nova Scotia ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater reduces their debt by $85 million
04 Octobre 2011 20:00AbitibiBowater Inc. has announced that the company would take advantage of its strong liquidity position to redeem an additional $85 million of its debt. The redemption will reduce AbitibiBowater’s total ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers retirees launch Victims of Brookfield Association
04 Octobre 2011 12:00On Thursday (October 6th), workers of the former Fraser Papers plant will hold a news conference in Edmundston, New Brunswick to officially launch the Victims of Brookfield Association as part ... Lire la suite...
Ligni Bel lumber mill hit with $85K penalty from Nova Scotia Power
04 Octobre 2011 10:00The Ligni Bel Ltd. lumber mill in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, has been hit with a $85,000 penalty tacked on to their power bill from Nova Scotia Power. The fine relates ... Lire la suite...
Meadow Lake Tribal Council plan biomass power plant in Saskatchewan
04 Octobre 2011 09:00The Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) plans to construct a $150 million biomass power plant in northern Saskatchewan. The power plant will run on bark, branches, sawdust, wood chips and other ... Lire la suite...
21 potential purchasers interested in the NewPage Port Hawkesbury mill
04 Octobre 2011 08:00Ernst & Young have released their second report as monitor over the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement act (CCAA) proceedings for NewPage Port Hawkesbury in Nova Scotia. In the report, the company said ... Lire la suite...
Grant Forest Products OSB mill in Timmins, Ontario is being demolished
02 Octobre 2011 18:00The Grant Forest Products OSB mill in Timmins, Ontario is currently being demolished. It’s been 5 years since the mill operated. On September 9, 2006, Grant Forest Products locked the plant’s ... Lire la suite...
Winton Global Lumber's permanent closure announced
30 Septembre 2011 11:00Sinclar Group Forest Products has announced it will not resume operations at its Winton Global Lumber plant sites. “As a long-standing, family-run company that has been operating in Prince ... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp announces 2 week delay to start up Northwood Pulp in Prince George, B.C.
29 Septembre 2011 21:00Canfor Pulp Products Inc., which owns 49.8% of Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership, has announced that the start-up of one line of its two-line Northwood Pulp Mill in Prince George, British Columbia ... Lire la suite...
Forest workers protest B.C.'s continued export of raw logs
29 Septembre 2011 10:00Forest workers protested in Nanaimo, British Columbia yesterday afternoon over the province’s continued export of raw logs. Hundreds of workers and their supporters gathered for a march and rally ... Lire la suite...
Brinkman and Associates Reforestation fined in connection to drowning deaths
28 Septembre 2011 11:00WorkSafe BC has fined Brinkman and Associates Reforestation $2,593.85 in connection with the drowning death of two of it workers on October 30, 2008. Seven of Brinkman and Associates’s workers were travelling ... Lire la suite...
Lessons learned from the 2010 Nisbet fire in Saskatchewan
26 Septembre 2011 12:00The Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Wildfire Management Branch has released the results of a study completed on a wildfire, the “Nisbet fire”, that occurred near the City of Prince Albert ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater might restart Dolbeau mill, after workers agree to change their contracts
23 Septembre 2011 21:00AbitibiBowater is consideirng restarting their Dolbeau paper mill in Quebec after its unionized workers unanimously agreed to change their contracts. AbitibiBowater idled the Dolbeau mill in June 2009, putting 240 workers out ... Lire la suite...
University of British Columbia receives $32.6 million for genomic-based forestry research
23 Septembre 2011 17:00The University of British Columbia welcomed the announcement of $32.6 million in funding from Genome Canada and Genome BC for four research projects aimed at making Canada's forests healthier and more ... Lire la suite...
Update on the Boundary Sawmill in Midway, B.C.
23 Septembre 2011 15:00Everything has finally come together for the reopening of the Boundary Sawmill in Midway, British Columbia. The mill was closed in 2007 when its owner, Pope & Talbot, went bankrupt. There was ... Lire la suite...
Judge approves reserve funds for payments to NewPage Port Hawkesbury's wood suppliers and contractors
23 Septembre 2011 14:00A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has approved the plan today to see the NewPage Port Hawkesbury‘s wood suppliers and forest contractors get paid. Two funds are now in ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia launches online Network of Stewardship Woodlots database
23 Septembre 2011 13:00The Government of Nova Scotia is moving forward with a new online tool that promotes sustainable woodlot management by helping woodland owners network with each other. The Network of Stewardship ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia's Forest Community launches online Wood Network
23 Septembre 2011 12:00British Columbia is about to have its own online wood marketplace. The creation of an interactive website designed to connect buyers and sellers of BC forest products will help BC ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia taxpayers to pay $988,200 of NewPage Port Hawkesbury's debt
22 Septembre 2011 09:00Taxpayers in Nova Scotia are now on the hook for almost a million dollars of NewPage Port Hawkesbury‘s debt. The province of Nova Scotia has decided to cover the $998,200 ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber has completed its sale of the Big River Sawmill in Saskatchewan to Carrier Forest Products
21 Septembre 2011 10:00EACOM Timber Corporation has announced the completion of the sale of the Big River Sawmill in Saskatchewan to Carrier Forest Products Ltd.. On January 5, 2010 EACOM acquired the mill, which was ... Lire la suite...
Cascades announces closure of its Burnaby container mill
21 Septembre 2011 10:00Cascades Inc., a leader in the recovery of recyclable materials and the manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, has announced that its Norampac division will close its containerboard ... Lire la suite...
Tentative deal reached over Marathon Pulp's environmental clean-up
20 Septembre 2011 08:00For two years there has been an ongoing dispute as to who is responsible for the environmental clean-up at the dormant pulp mill in Marathon, Ontario. The Chronicle Journal is ... Lire la suite...
List of NewPage Port Hawkesbury's creditors
20 Septembre 2011 00:00Ernst & Young, acting the CCAA Monitor for NewPage Port Hawkesbury, has released a list of the company’s creditors. The document is 11 pages long and lists both the secured and ... Lire la suite...
It's National Forest Week
19 Septembre 2011 09:00A statement from the Honourable Joe Oliver, P.C., M.P., Minister of Natural Resources, on National Forest Week: “Forests are fundamental to our well-being. They play a major ... Lire la suite...
Lecours Lumber receives FSC certification
16 Septembre 2011 22:00Lecours Lumber Co. Limited, a privately-owned company, based in Calstock Ontario, has earned Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®) Chain-of-Custody certification from the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program (FSC® C107217). Lecours Lumber is ... Lire la suite...
What has happened in Powerview-Pine Falls, Manitoba since the Tembec mill closed?
16 Septembre 2011 15:00It has been two years since the Pine Falls Tembec paper mill in Manitoba made paper. On the Labour Day weekend in 2009, Tembec locked out its workers after they rejected ... Lire la suite...
NewPage Port Hawkesbury idled today
16 Septembre 2011 09:00The second paper machine is being idled today at NewPage in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. Last week the newsprint machine was shut down, and today the super calendar paper machine ... Lire la suite...
Cascades invests $3.7 million in upgrades at its Breakeyville, Quebec mill
16 Septembre 2011 09:00Cascades has recently added new deinking equipment to their Breakeyville, Quebec plant, and the cost of $3.7 million. Strategically focused on producing deinked kraft pulp of the highest quality, this strategic ... Lire la suite...
Ligni Bel Ltd. reduces workforce at its Scotsburn mill due to NewPage Port Hawkesbury closure
14 Septembre 2011 09:00Ligni Bel Ltd. has laid off 80 employees, half of its workforce, at its Scotsburn lumber mill in Nova Scotia due to the shutdown at NewPage Port Hawkesbury. The Ligni Bel ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater voices concern over new forest management approach in Abitibi River Forest
13 Septembre 2011 18:00AbitibiBowater Inc. is echoing the concerns of Ontario Northeastern municipal leaders with regards to the newly proposed forest management approach on the Abitibi River Forest that would result in the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater fire in Thunder Bay sends 5 to hospital
13 Septembre 2011 12:00Last night a structural fire broke out in AbitibiBowater‘s No. 5 paper machine in Thunder Bay, Ontario. 5 people were sent to hospital. 4 of them were suffering from smoke inhalation, and 1 ... Lire la suite...
Taiga Building Products reports net earnings of $3.6 million in latest quarter
12 Septembre 2011 19:00Taiga Building Products has reported a net profit of $3.6 million in its latest quarter ending June 30, 2011. This result can be compared to a $5.3 million net profit reported over the same ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth Lumber's President and CEO Richard Huff announces retirement
09 Septembre 2011 14:00Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. President and CEO Richard Huff announced his retirement today. In his place the Board of Directors of Ainsworth has appointed Jim Lake, currently Vice President, Operations ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia's $15 million plan to keep NewPage contractors afloat for 3 months
09 Septembre 2011 11:00Nova Scotia‘s Premier, Darrell Dexter, has released a 7 point plan for keeping the supply chain for the NewPage Port Hawkesbury mill ready for if/when the mill is sold ... Lire la suite...
Ontario moves to reduce harvestable timber levels in Abitibi River Forest for caribou conservation
09 Septembre 2011 09:00Ontario has released its management plan for the Abitibi River Forest in Northeastern Ontario. The plan would see an immediate 25% reduction in harvestable timber, with a 65% reduction in less than 30 ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's Gatineau workers vote in favour of new contract
09 Septembre 2011 08:00The workers of AbitibiBowater‘s Gatineau mill have voted 97% in favour of a new labour agreement. This may lead to the company restarting one paper machine at the mill. AbitibiBowater ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater might restart a Gatineau paper machine, IF the workers agree to a new labour agreement
08 Septembre 2011 19:00AbitibiBowater is considering restarting one of the paper machines at its Gatineau, Quebec mill – a year after they were shut down. But only if the workers agree to a new ... Lire la suite...
Conifex intends to acquire lumber distribution and transportation businesses
08 Septembre 2011 14:00Conifex Timber Inc. has announced that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire the commodity lumber distribution business owned and operated by Welco Lumber Corp. and ... Lire la suite...
Wilderness Vegetation Mangement's assets to be auctioned this month
08 Septembre 2011 14:00The assets of Wilderness Vegetation Management will be auctioned off this month. Wilderness operated out of Wawa and Heyden, Ontario. The company had been involved in treeplanting, right-of-way clearing, roadside & ... Lire la suite...
Tembec receives $75 million loan to upgrade Temiscaming boilers
07 Septembre 2011 18:00Tembec is receiving a loan for $75 million from the Quebec Government – through Investissement Quebec – to upgrade a boiler at their mill in Temiscaming. The money will be used to upgrade ... Lire la suite...
So what happens now to the plan to burn wood for power in Port Hawkesbury?
07 Septembre 2011 09:00Remember the plan to burn wood in Port Hawkesbury to create power for Nova Scotia Power? You may have been thinking that plan was dead now that the NewPage mill ... Lire la suite...
NewPage files for creditor protection
07 Septembre 2011 07:00NewPage Corporation announced today that, to facilitate an orderly debt restructuring and position the overall business for long-term success, its corporate parent, NewPage Group Inc., and certain of its U.... Lire la suite...
West Kelowna wildfire forces evacuation of 550 residents
06 Septembre 2011 21:00A wildfire on the west side of Okanagan Lake led to the evacuation of at least 550 residents and campers in British Columbia last night. Strong down slope winds and aggressive ... Lire la suite...
Canfor restarts Vavenby sawmill
06 Septembre 2011 21:00Canfor Corporation is pleased to announce the successful restart of the Corporation’s Vavenby sawmill. The September 6, 2011 restart follows a $24 million capital investment which included a new canter line, a ... Lire la suite...
According to the Premier of Nova Scotia, NewPage has filed for creditor protection
06 Septembre 2011 21:00It has been 2 weeks since the Mayor of Port Hawkesbury, Billy Joe MacLean, announced that NewPage Corp. had filed for creditor protection. Today, Darrell Dexter, Premier of Nova Scotia is ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater receives FSC certification for Black Spruce and Dog River-Matawin Forests
06 Septembre 2011 18:00AbitibiBowater announced today that it has received Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) certification for the Black Spruce and Dog River-Matawin Forest areas, north of Thunder Bay, Ontario. This area covers approximately 2.5 ... Lire la suite...
$6.5 million given to New Brunswick mills through Pulp & Paper Green Transformation Program
06 Septembre 2011 18:00Two pulp and paper mills in New Brunswick, AV Nackawic and Twin Rivers, received funding for three projects through the Canadian Government’s $1-billion Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. ... Lire la suite...
Grand Council Treaty #3 calls for judicial review of AbitibiBowater's hydroelectric dam sale
02 Septembre 2011 22:00Earlier this year, AbitibiBowater sold their 75% stake of their 8 hydroelectric assets in Ontario for $300 million (Cdn). Yesterday, the Grand Council Treaty #3 filed an application for a judicial review with the ... Lire la suite...
Ontario helps Ainsworth Lumber (Barwick) & AbitibiBowater (Fort Frances & Iroquois Falls) with their power rates
02 Septembre 2011 19:00Through their Northern Industrial Electricity Rate program, the Government of Ontario is helping 3 more companies with their power rates. Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. in Barwick, Ontario will be receiving $1 million ... Lire la suite...
NewPage Port Hawkesbury misses 2 scheduled payments to contractors
02 Septembre 2011 14:00NewPage Port Hawkesbury has now missed 2 scheduled payments to its contractors, trucking companies, and road builders. One operator estimates they are currently owed about $4 million. Claude Bourgeouis, president of the ... Lire la suite...
Concern that Brown Spruce Longhorn presence in New Brunswick could close borders
02 Septembre 2011 10:00Andrew Fedora, executive director of the Federation of Nova Scotia Woodland Owners, who also is on the steering committee of the National Task-force set up for the pest, is expressing ... Lire la suite...
Free Offer: Publications available this month
02 Septembre 2011 09:00There are many free subscription offers available to us this month. Here are a few you may be interested in, or you can browse through more free publications. Chemical Engineering ... Lire la suite...
Brown spruce longhorn beetle found in New Brunswick
01 Septembre 2011 13:00The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of the brown spruce longhorn beetle (BSLB) near a campground within the Kouchibouguac National Park in New Brunswick. This is ... Lire la suite...
Alberta Forest Products Association members see value of shipments slide in latest quarter
01 Septembre 2011 13:00Shipments of lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper manufactured by Alberta Forest Products Association-member companies totaled approximately $550 million for the 2nd quarter of 2011. These numbers represent a significant decrease of $43 million ... Lire la suite...
Atikokan Forest Products & Northern Wood Products equipment to be auctioned off
01 Septembre 2011 09:00The equipment of the Atikokan Forest Products and Northern Sawmills will be auctioned off this month. Both sawmills were formerly owned by the Buchanan Group. Atikokan Forest Products Auction – September 27 & 28, ... Lire la suite...
Interfor certifies 700,000 ha to SFI Forest Standard
30 Août 2011 21:00As part of its broad commitment to sustainable forest management, Interfor announced today it has achieved third-party certification to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standard for its recently acquired Grand ... Lire la suite...
Southern Ontario County fines landowners for cutting down their own trees
30 Août 2011 20:00Don and Donna Kowaluk live in a rural, agricultural area of southern Ontario, near Strathroy. About 15 years ago, 22,500 trees were planted on the Kowaluk’s property. Last winter, the Kowaluk’... Lire la suite...
Northern Pulp shut down for 4 days last week for repairs
30 Août 2011 09:00Northern Pulp, of Abercrombie, Nova Scotia, took 4 days of downtime last week to make repairs to one of its boilers. A tube leak was discovered in relation to one of ... Lire la suite...
NewPage Port Hawkesbury stops accepting wood
30 Août 2011 09:00NewPage Port Hawkesbury announced last week that it would not be accepting wood from private land owners after Sunday. Contractors who work for NewPage were told to stop cutting and ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater announces plan to restart Ignace, ON sawmill
29 Août 2011 13:00AbitibiBowater announced today a capital investment plan that will lead to the restart and upgrade of its currently idled sawmill located in Ignace, Ontario. The C$32 million investment includes the ... Lire la suite...
Sino-Forest executives ordered to resign
26 Août 2011 10:00The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has ordered the senior officers and directors of Sino-Forest Corporation to resign. The OSC has also stopped trading the company’s shares. The OSC believes ... Lire la suite...
NewPage is in talks to obtain debtor-in-possession financing
26 Août 2011 09:00The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that NewPage Corp. is in talks with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. to obtain roughly $600 million in so-called ... Lire la suite...
New school in Fredericton to be heated with wood pellets
25 Août 2011 21:00A new school being constructed in Fredericton, New Brunswick will be the first in the province to be heated with wood pellets. The school will be equipped with a wood ... Lire la suite...
Louisiana-Pacific curtails OSB production in Dawson Creek, B.C.
24 Août 2011 20:00Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP) has announced that its Dawson Creek, B.C., mill will curtail press production of oriented strand board (OSB) beginning Aug. 25. The mill will continue to manufacture LP ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater to invest in Iroquois Falls mill
24 Août 2011 14:00AbitibiBowater has announced a reconfiguration and capital spending program for its paper mill located in Iroquois Falls, Ontario. The investments will improve overall product quality and the mill’s competitive ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia commits to keeping forestry contractors working when NewPage idles its mill
24 Août 2011 13:00Darrell Dexter, Premier of Nova Scotia, is saying this afternoon that the province will commit to a program that will see forestry contractors in the woodlands continue to work in ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Ainsworth 100 Mile House OSB plant damaged equipment
24 Août 2011 13:00On August 20th, a fire broke out at Ainsworth‘s 100 Mile House OSB plant in British Columbia. The fire appears to have been started when flakes from a sheet of ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber doubles loss in second quarter
24 Août 2011 09:00EACOM Timber Corp. has recorded a negative EBITDA of $10,026 ($3,238 for the quarter ended March 31, 2011). The net loss and comprehensive loss for the quarter amounted to $13,662 ($6,132 for the preceding quarter). EACOM ... Lire la suite...
Sault Ste. Marie's St. Marys Paper and Flakeboard Company receive power rebates
24 Août 2011 08:00Both St. Marys Paper and Flakeboard Company Ltd. of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario will be receiving help with their electricity rates from the Government of Ontario. The Northern Industrial Electricity ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia's Premier offers help to NewPage Port Hawkesbury
23 Août 2011 12:00The Premier of Nova Scotia, Darrell Dexter, met with NewPage Port Hawkesbury‘s top mill managers this morning. Dexter has offered the province’s assistance for marketing the mill’s ... Lire la suite...
Could Catalyst Paper merge with AbitibiBowater?
23 Août 2011 10:00Catalyst Paper is seeking to merge with another company, and AbitibiBowater may be the most likely possibility. That is the topic of Gordon Hamilton‘s analysis of Catalyst Paper in ... Lire la suite...
Reactions to NewPage Port Hawkesbury's indefinite closure
23 Août 2011 09:00Reactions of shock and despair are being heard in Nova Scotia today, after NewPage‘s decision to indefinitely closing the Port Hawkesbury mill. The mayor of Port Hawkesbury, Billy Joe ... Lire la suite...
Downtime at NewPage Port Hawkesbury
22 Août 2011 11:00NewPage Corporation today announced that, based on its assessment of current market and economic conditions, it has decided to take downtime on both paper machines at its Port Hawkesbury mill ... Lire la suite...
Ontario's fire update: 953 forest fires have burned 618,187 hectares of forest
19 Août 2011 22:0020 new fires were reported in the province of Ontario on Thursday August 18, most of them caused by lightning in both the northeast and the northwest regions of Ontario. Numerous lightning ... Lire la suite...
Red Rock Mill Inc. and its president hit with hefty fines under the Environmental Protection Act
19 Août 2011 20:00Red Rock Mill Inc., and its president Robert Van Patten, have been hit with hefty fines by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. The course case against the mill and ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater receives power rebate in Thunder Bay, Ontario
19 Août 2011 11:00Through the Northern Industrial Electricity Rate (NIER) program, Abibow Canada Inc. will receive energy rebates of two cents per kilo-watt hour (kWh) to help manage electricity costs and improve energy ... Lire la suite...
Conifex posts net quarterly loss of $3.6 million
19 Août 2011 08:00Conifex Timber Inc. is reporting a net loss of $3.6 million in their second quarter. EBITDA improved by $0.5 million compared to the previous quarter and $0.1 million compared to the same quarter ... Lire la suite...
Enligna Canada in receivership; Pellet mill closes in Nova Scotia
18 Août 2011 21:00Enligna Canada closed its wood pellet mill in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia several days ago. Today comes the news that the company has formally been placed in receivership and 50 people ... Lire la suite...
Granisle and Lake Babine Nation get their own community forest licence in British Columbia
18 Août 2011 14:00The Government of British Columbia has granted a community forestry license for the Village of Granisle and the Lake Babine Nation. A community forest agreement will diversify the local economy ... Lire la suite...
Dog trained to sniff out Asian Longhorned Beetles in trees
18 Août 2011 11:00The United States Department of Agriculture has a blog post online about how a homeless beagle was trained to sniff out Asian Longhorned Beetles in trees. The Asian Longhorned Beetle ... Lire la suite...
Tembec reaches settlement with its workers at Matane, Quebec pulp mill
18 Août 2011 11:00Tembec reached a settlement with its Matane, Quebec high-yield pulp mill employees who, last night, voted to end the strike. Employees will return to work gradually as of August 22 and ... Lire la suite...
Peter Lineen appointed as new CEO of BC Forest Safety Council
18 Août 2011 09:00The BC Forest Safety Council's board of directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Lineen as the new CEO of the forest sector's health and safety association. Lineen, ... Lire la suite...
Burns Lake Community Forest fined for visual quality objectives infraction
17 Août 2011 11:00Recently, the Burns Lake Community Forest in British Columbia was fined $7,500 by the Ministry of Forest Lands and Natural Resource Operations for clearcutting a forest that was determined by the ... Lire la suite...
Grassy Narrows First Nation win legal battle that may end clearcut logging in their Territory
17 Août 2011 10:00The Grassy Narrows First Nation (Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek) won a major victory yesterday in their more than decade long battle to stop clearcut logging in Grassy Narrows' traditional territory in ... Lire la suite...
Greenstone and Ginoogaming First Nation push to reopen idled mills
16 Août 2011 21:00Back in 2009, a consortium formed in Northern Ontario with the goal of reopening the wafer-board facility and plywood plant in Greenstone, Ontario. (Greenstone is a new town that was formed ... Lire la suite...
Former Acton Plywood mill sold in New Brunswick
16 Août 2011 13:00The former Acton Plywood Inc. mill in the Miramichi area of New Brunswick, has been sold for more than $5.2 million to Quebec businessman Pierre Seguin. Seguin placed his bid for ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia releases new Natural Resources Strategy
16 Août 2011 12:00Nova Scotia has released its new, long-awaited, Natural Resources Strategy. Read the new strategy: The Path We Share: A Natural Resources Strategy for Nova Scotia, 2011-2020 Read the Action Plan: ... Lire la suite...
NewPage reports net quarterly loss of $132 million; Costs increasing at NewPage Port Hawkesbury
15 Août 2011 09:00NewPage Corporation has posted a net loss of $132 million in the second quarter of 2011 on net sales of $888 million. Higher average paper sales prices were offset by lower sales volume ... Lire la suite...
Alberta accepting applications for FireSmart community grants
15 Août 2011 08:00The Alberta government is helping municipalities located in the province’s Forest Protection Area reduce the risk of wildfires to their communities. Alberta’s more than 300 at-risk forest-area communities can ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's sawmill workers in Thunder Bay vote to join the CEP
13 Août 2011 10:00Maintenance and production workers, 150 in total, at AbitibiBowater‘s sawmill in Thunder Bay, Ontario have voted to join the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP). CEP conducted a 6 ... Lire la suite...
Ontario has spent $107 million fighting forest fires so far this year
13 Août 2011 08:00Fighting Ontario’s forest fires has already cost about $107 million this year. This number is expected to increase over the next few weeks, with the end of the fire season ... Lire la suite...
Domtar's Kamloops mill loses power in storm
12 Août 2011 08:00On Wednesday evening, an intense thunderstorm shut down the operations at Domtar‘s pulp mill in Kamloops, British Columbia. During the storm, the mill’s backup system kicked in when ... Lire la suite...
Howe Sound Pulp & Paper's boiler upgrade nears completion
12 Août 2011 08:00The $37 million dollar upgrade of the boiler at Howe Sound Pulp and Paper in British Columbia is nearing completion. During the upgrade, the bottom one-third of the boiler was removed ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia's long awaited Natural Resources Strategy to be released next week
11 Août 2011 23:00Nova Scotia is finally going to release its new Natural Resources Strategy next week. The process begin in 2007 with a citizen engagement phase, followed by a phase of technical expertise ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater announces closure of its Saint-Prime, Quebec remanufactured wood mill
11 Août 2011 18:00AbitibiBowater has announced the closure of its re-manufactured wood mill in Saint-Prime, Quebec. The closure is being blamed on current economic conditions, and the decline in U.S. housing starts. ... Lire la suite...
Firefighters catch a break in Ontario; New restricted fire zone in B.C.
11 Août 2011 14:00Ontario’s Fire Conditions Ontario‘s fire conditions are easing thanks to the weather. A slow-moving system has brought cloud and rain to Ontario. The improving situation has allowed the ... Lire la suite...
Domtar's emissions in Kamloops narrowly pass air quality test
11 Août 2011 09:00The air in Kamloops, British Columbia had been improving around Domtar‘s pulp mill, but that trend suffered a set back in July. The British Columbia Ministry of the Environment ... Lire la suite...
Stella-Jones reports quarterly net income of $17.3 million
11 Août 2011 08:00Stella-Jones Inc. has reported a net income of $17.3 million in its second quarter on sales of $180.3 million. Sales were up $13 million, or 7.8%, over last year’s second quarter results. Stella-Jones ... Lire la suite...
Rumours persist that NewPage Port Hawkesbury is about to be sold
10 Août 2011 20:00The Cape Breton Post is reporting today that the streets of Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia are buzzing with rumours that the NewPage Port Hawkesbury paper mill is about to be ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia Lumber Trade Council comments on latest softwood lumber case
10 Août 2011 20:00The British Columbia Lumber Trade Council (BCLTC) commented today on the filing of the U.S. Statement of Case in the arbitration under the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) on BC ... Lire la suite...
Global Sticks of Thunder Bay, ON relying on Minnesota for 95% of its wood supply
10 Août 2011 20:00Global Sticks opened its value-added operation in Thunder Bay, Ontario in May. The company makes wooden sticks for many uses, including: food industry, e.g. apple sticks, corn dog sticks, ... Lire la suite...
Cascades posts net quarterly profit of $117 million
10 Août 2011 09:00Cascades Inc. has posted its second quarter results, showing a net profit of $117 million, compared to a net profit of $28 million in the same quarter of 2010. Commenting on the second ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater reports a net quarterly income of $61 million
10 Août 2011 08:00AbitibiBowater Inc. today reported net income for the second quarter of 2011 of $61 million on sales of $1.2 billion. These results compare with a net loss of $297 million on sales of $1.2 billion ... Lire la suite...
Another AbitibiBowater mill sold for scrap
09 Août 2011 13:00AbitibiBowater has sold its former newsprint mill in the state of Alabama to a scrap metal firm. The mill stopped making paper in December, 2008. Unlike the Canadian mills that have ... Lire la suite...
The latest fire update from Ontario
09 Août 2011 13:00Over 26,000 lightning strikes caused the start of 81 new fires across the province between August 2nd and 4th. There have been 24 times more hectares burned in Ontario compared to this time ... Lire la suite...
Norampac workers in Trenton temporarily back to work
06 Août 2011 13:00Back in June, the workers at Norampac in Trenton, Ontario were given indefinite layoff notices. However, 137 employees have just been called back to work. The re-opening is said to be ... Lire la suite...
New Brunswick needs to build a new market for its lumber
06 Août 2011 11:00New Brunswick‘s lumber producers have been too focused on the American market, and have suffered for it. In 2001, exports to the U.S. were worth more than $599 million and ... Lire la suite...
Softwood lumber dispute's next round set to begin August 9
06 Août 2011 11:00On August 9, the United States will makes its case to the London Court of International Arbitration that British Columbia is subsidizing timber prices for pine-beetle damaged trees. The London Court ... Lire la suite...
Weyerhaeuser receives electricity rebate in Kenora, Ontario
05 Août 2011 22:00Weyerhaeuser Company Limited, in Kenora will receive electricity rebates of two cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to help manage their electricity costs and improve their energy efficiency and sustainability. The province ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth records net loss of $13 million in its second quarter
05 Août 2011 22:00Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. is reporting a net loss of $13 million in its second quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2011 was $2.7 million compared to $35.1 million in the same ... Lire la suite...
PRT sees 41% increase in seedling order volume over last year
05 Août 2011 22:00PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund has seen a 41% increase in seedling order volume over 2010, mainly attributable to improving forestry markets due to stabilization of the US housing market and growth ... Lire la suite...
Interfor reports net quarterly loss of $5.3 million
05 Août 2011 21:00International Forest Products Limited (“Interfor”) has posted a net loss of $5.3 million for the second quarter of 2011. Lumber production in the second quarter was 325 million board feet, down 7 million board ... Lire la suite...
Kenora Forest Products accepts wood supply offer
05 Août 2011 15:00Kenora Forest Products has accepted a wood supply offer from the province of Ontario. The offer is for 101,000 cubic metres per year of merchantable spruce, pine and fir. The company’... Lire la suite...
DuPont volunteers to suspend sales of its herbicide Imprelis®
05 Août 2011 15:00DuPont Chemical produces a herbicide, called Imprelis®, that was developed by its scientists to be “a post-emergent broadleaf weed control product that provides turf professionals with an innovative solution to ... Lire la suite...
Millar Western aims to turn organic matter in their wastewater into electricity
05 Août 2011 15:00Millar Western Forest Products plans to pre-treat their waste water at their Whitecourt mill, to collect a biogas, to generate electricity. An anaerobic hybrid digester will be installed to pre-treat ... Lire la suite...
Tolko's Lakeview mill will restart on Monday
05 Août 2011 09:00Tolko Industries shut down its Lakeview division in Williams Lake, British Columbia on July 25th because the wet weather conditions were making it impossible to move logs from the wood ... Lire la suite...
B.C.'s cool, wet summer means a break from fighting costly wildfires
05 Août 2011 08:00The taxpayers of British Columbia are having a bit of a vacation from the high cost of fighting the province’s wild fires. The summer has been mainly cool and ... Lire la suite...
Carrier Forest Products to re-start sawmill & planer near Big River, Saskatchewan
04 Août 2011 13:00Carrier Forest Products Ltd. plans to re-establish the mill complex near Big River, Saskatchewan. The sawmill and planer mill development will employ up to 110 people directly when running at capacity ... Lire la suite...
Prince Albert mill reopens, work underway to retrofit the mill
04 Août 2011 09:00Yesterday, the new Prince Albert Pulp Incorporated sign was unveiled in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Ed Roste, Paper Excellence vice president in charge of the mill, held a press conference to ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products records net quarterly income of $12.1 million
04 Août 2011 08:00Western Forest Products Inc. has posted a net income of $12.1 million in its second quarter of 2011, on sales of $218.7 million, which compared to a net income reported in the second ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek posts net quarterly earnings of $5.6 million
04 Août 2011 08:00Fibrek Inc. has recorded net earnings of $5.6 million in the second quarter of 2011, compared with net earnings of $10.3 million in the corresponding period of 2010. Commenting on these results, Pierre Gabriel ... Lire la suite...
Timberwest appoints Bev Park to the role of Interim President and CEO
03 Août 2011 08:00The Board of Directors of TimberWest Forest Corp. has announced the appointment of Bev Park to the role of Interim President and CEO effective September 8, 2011 following the resignation of Paul ... Lire la suite...
Ontario calls in help from the U.S. to fight fires
02 Août 2011 21:00Fire burns on the ground as fire 'RED 84' starts to flare up under hot, dry and windy conditions PHOTO: MITCH MILLER / ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES 140 forest fires continue ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper posts net loss of $47.4 million in second quarter
01 Août 2011 09:00Catalyst Paper has posted a net loss of $47.4 million on sales of $297.8 million during the second quarter of 2011. The net loss increased from $12.9 million on sales of $303.6 million during the ... Lire la suite...
Canfor reports net income of $26.2 million in latest quarter
30 Juillet 2011 19:00Canfor Corporation has reported net income of $26.2 million for the second quarter of 2011, compared to $32.3 million for the first quarter of 2011 and $43.7 million for the second quarter of 2010. For the ... Lire la suite...
Norbord records net earnings of $1 million in its second quarter
30 Juillet 2011 19:00Norbord Inc. has recorded earnings of $1 million in the second quarter of 2011. These results can be compared to the company’s $2 million loss in its first quarter of 2011, and net ... Lire la suite...
Canfor proceeding with capital improvements in Grande Prairie and Prince George
29 Juillet 2011 07:00Canfor Corporation has announced that, following a review with its Board of Directors, Canfor will be proceeding with capital improvement projects totaling $46.7 million at its Grande Prairie, Alberta facility and ... Lire la suite...
BC Forest Safety Council releases report reviewing the Khaira Enterprises situation
28 Juillet 2011 09:00Roger Harris, the BC Forest Safety Ombudsman, has released a report titled, “If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it… Review of failures ... Lire la suite...
Domtar reports net earnings of $54 million in second quarter
28 Juillet 2011 08:00Domtar has posted its second quarter results, showing net earnings of $54 million compared to net earnings of $133 million for the first quarter of 2011 and net earnings of $31 million for the ... Lire la suite...
Acadian Timber reports net quarterly loss of $261 million
28 Juillet 2011 08:00Acadian Timber has reported a net loss of $261 million in its second quarter ending on June 25, 2011, on net sales of $11.7 million on sales volume of 243 thousand m3. “The market for ... Lire la suite...
Conifex Timber joins the Forest Products Association of Canada
27 Juillet 2011 10:00The Chairman of the Board of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), Jim Lopez, today announced that Conifex Timber Inc. has become the newest member of FPAC. The Association ... Lire la suite...
Khaira Enterprises still hasn't paid its workers from last summer
27 Juillet 2011 08:00Last summer, an investigation found that Khaira Enterprises Ltd.‘s silviculture camps in Golden, Revelstoke, Texada Island, Powell River, Salmon Arm and Kamloops, British Columbia were imposing poor living and ... Lire la suite...
Latest update on Northwestern Ontario's forest fires
26 Juillet 2011 20:00The members of the Mishkeegogamang First Nation who were evacuated last week have returned to their community from Dryden and Sioux Lookout. The 153 residents are the first to come home ... Lire la suite...
Tembec posts net quarterly earnings of $19 million
26 Juillet 2011 12:00Tembec has posted net earnings of $19 million in the June 2011 quarter compared to net earnings of $59 million in the June 2010 quarter. Operating earnings before depreciation, amortization and other specific or ... Lire la suite...
Kimberly-Clark posts record net sales in second quarter
25 Juillet 2011 20:00Kimberly-Clark Corporation posted their second quarter results today, showing a net income of $408 million, down from $498 for the same quarter in 2010. The company’s second quarter’s net sales were ... Lire la suite...
Friday's Ontario forest fire update
22 Juillet 2011 16:00Current Status of Fires: Current number of fires burning in Ontario: 111 Hectares covered by fire, to date: 493,000 Cloud cover and some precipitation over parts of Northwestern Ontario slowed the fires ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber reports quarterly earnings of $10 million
22 Juillet 2011 12:00West Fraser Timber has reported earnings of $10 million and a diluted loss per share of $0.09 on sales of $720 million in the second quarter of 2011. “Historic low housing starts and economic ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Appoints Jo-Ann Longworth as Chief Financial Officer
20 Juillet 2011 21:00AbitibiBowater Inc. today announced that Jo-Ann Longworth will become Chief Financial Officer, effective August 31st, 2011. Ms. Longworth succeeds William G. Harvey, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Harvey ... Lire la suite...
Latest update on forest fire evacuations in Ontario
20 Juillet 2011 18:00Emergency Management Ontario (EMO), the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), the Canadian Forces and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada are working closely with threatened First Nations communities and host ... Lire la suite...
Canfor's Vavenby mill to reopen Sept. 6
18 Juillet 2011 21:00Canfor‘s Vavenby mill, in British Columbia, is scheduled to reopen on September 6. Approximately 50 people will return to work at the mill in September. The Vavenby mill was indefinitely closed ... Lire la suite...
Latest update on evacuations in Ontario due to forest fires
18 Juillet 2011 10:00Smoke caused by numerous forest fires continues to cause concerns in many First Nations communities in Northwestern Ontario. First Nations officials in Cat Lake and Keewaywin have decided to evacuate ... Lire la suite...
B.C. lumber exports to China surpass exports to U.S. for first time
17 Juillet 2011 19:00In May, softwood lumber exports from British Columbia to China amounted to 746,000 cubic metres – up 157% by volume over the same month last year. Pat Bell, former B.C. Forests minister ... Lire la suite...
Tolko employees return to work on Monday
16 Juillet 2011 14:00Laid off Tolko workers in Lumby, Armstrong, and Heffley Creek will be returning to work on Monday. These workers were the 260 employees who were laid off two weeks ago when ... Lire la suite...
Crown Fibre Tube Inc. receives $120K from Nova Scotia
16 Juillet 2011 14:00Crown Fibre Tube Inc., of Kentville, Nova Scotia, will be receiving $120,000 from the province to increase productivity, efficiency and lower the cost of its goods. The company will use the ... Lire la suite...
Northwestern Ontario is now a restricted fire zone
16 Juillet 2011 14:00A Restricted Fire Zone Order has been declared for Northwestern Ontario in an area bounded by the CNR rail line, just north of Opasquia Provincial Park, west of Wabakimi Provincial ... Lire la suite...
AbiBow Canada Inc. signs an exclusivity agreement to sell forested properties near Timmins, ON
15 Juillet 2011 10:00AbiBow Canada Inc., a subsidiary of AbitibiBowater Inc., has entered an agreement with Ring of Fire Resources Inc. to provide an exclusive right to sell a 100% title and interest in ... Lire la suite...
Government of Canada extends FPInnovations' transformation program with a $25 million commitment
15 Juillet 2011 09:00Canada’s forestry innovation hub, FPInnovations, has welcomed Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver‘s announcement of $25.5-million towards the 2011-2012 Transformative Technologies Research Program (TTP). This program focuses on ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber's dormant Eurocan mill in Kitimat, B.C. sold to Kitimat LNG
15 Juillet 2011 09:00West Fraser Timber‘s dormant Eurocan linerboard mill in Kitimat, B.C. has ben sold to Kitimat LNG. The industrial site will be used as a work camp and lay-down ... Lire la suite...
Tembec invests $6 million in its Béarn, Québec sawmill
14 Juillet 2011 19:00Tembec today announced a $6-million investment in its Béarn sawmill, located in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, in Québec. Support from the Province of Québec in the amount ... Lire la suite...
Local 74 in Espanola, ON ratifies 5-year deal with Domtar
14 Juillet 2011 13:00CEP‘s Local 74, in Espanola, Ontario, has voted 80.9% in favour of ratifying a 5-year deal with Domtar. Details of the deal: 5 year deal retro-active to May 1, 2009 0% increase in first 3 years ... Lire la suite...
B.C. logging company wins First Nation Entrepreneurial Award
14 Juillet 2011 10:00The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) are pleased to announce that Percy Guichon, the Chief of the Alexis Creek Indian Band, and ... Lire la suite...
Tentative agreement at Domtar's mill in Espanola
13 Juillet 2011 09:00A tentative agreement has been reached in Espanola, Ontario between Domtar and Local 74 of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. A ratification vote will be held today. In ... Lire la suite...
Video: Building Firewise communities
11 Juillet 2011 09:00The National Fire Protection Association in the United States, has a Firewise Communities program that encourages local solutions for wildfire safety by involving homeowners, community leaders, planners, developers, firefighters, and ... Lire la suite...
Photos of Northwestern Ontario's RED 74 fire
10 Juillet 2011 09:00Here are some photos from the fireline with Ontario MNR FireRangers on fire “Red 74″, located 128 km north of the town of Red Lake, Ontario. Helicopter lands to drop of firefighters ... Lire la suite...
J.D. Irving holding job fair to fill 200 positions in NB. Free training to chosen candidates
09 Juillet 2011 14:00J.D. Irving is looking to hire 200 workers in New Brunswick, and with the cooperation of the provincial government, the company will be covering the costs of training the new ... Lire la suite...
New ‘Ontario Wood' program announced
07 Juillet 2011 20:00Ontario has introduced a new “Ontario Wood” logo that will make it easier for the people of Ontario to choose and purchase wood from their own province to support their ... Lire la suite...
Winter survival rates of mountain pine beetle in Alberta
07 Juillet 2011 20:00Mountain pine beetle populations experienced varying degrees of over-winter survival in Alberta in 2010-11, ranging from moderate to high survival in the northwest and central parts of the province to ... Lire la suite...
Ontario evacuating some residents from Deer Lake
07 Juillet 2011 07:00Emergency Management Ontario (EMO) is working with First Nations officials, provincial ministries, federal departments and the Canadian Forces to evacuate Deer Lake residents who are most at risk from nearby ... Lire la suite...
New nano material developed from wood and straw pulp is stronger than steel
06 Juillet 2011 20:00It's super strong, it's green and it's providing new opportunities for business in Alberta. It's called nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) and Alberta is about to become a leader in its production ... Lire la suite...
Tuesday's lightning keeping Northwestern Ontario fire crews busy
06 Juillet 2011 13:00Fire crews in Northwestern Ontario have been very busy this week dealing with new fires. On Tuesday, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources recorded over 7,100 lightning strikes in a 24-hour ... Lire la suite...
Last call for proposals for Forest Industry Transformation Funding
06 Juillet 2011 12:00The Government of Canada today officially launched the second and last Call for Proposals under the Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) program. The IFIT program aims to support Canada's ... Lire la suite...
Save Dubreuilville & Wawa initiatives
06 Juillet 2011 10:00Northern forestry towns, across our country, are facing unknown futures with the downturn in the forest industry. These towns grew and thrived around a central employer – a lumber or pulp ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper pays over $10.7 million in tax payments to North Cowichan
05 Juillet 2011 08:00Property taxes were due yesterday in North Cowichan, British Columbia. Catalyst Paper made a big payment to North Cowichan, paying over $10.7 million of its outstanding property tax bill. This leaves ... Lire la suite...
Red Rock Mill Inc. court case put over until August
03 Juillet 2011 12:00The environmental charges against Red Rock Mill Inc. and the president of the company, Robert Van Patten, will be heard in a Thunder Bay, Ontario courtroom on August 16. The company ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater announces debt reduction initiatives
01 Juillet 2011 11:00AbitibiBowater has announced that, with the proceeds from the sale of its 75% indirect interest in ACH Limited Partnership, the company recently redeemed approximately $270 million of its debt. With these disbursements, ... Lire la suite...
New Brunswick delays Crown land logging plan for another 6 months
29 Juin 2011 19:00The New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources is delaying the release of the next 5-year Crown land logging plan for another 6 months. Minister Bruce Northrup already delayed releasing this plan ... Lire la suite...
Ontario adds a new provincial park, and increases the size of 2 others
29 Juin 2011 19:00Ontario announced the creation of a new Ontario Provincial Park today, called DuPont. DuPont Provincial Park is on the St. Lawrence River near Morrisburg. The park includes a mature hardwood ... Lire la suite...
New satellite imagery of forest fires burning in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories
29 Juin 2011 12:00Here is a satellite image from June 26 of the forest fires currently burning in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. (click to download a larger image) The image was taken ... Lire la suite...
Tolko wrapping up short curtailment after wet weather slows log deliveries
28 Juin 2011 20:00Tolko‘s Soda Creek division in British Columbia reopened on Monday after a six day curtailment due to weather-related harvesting curtailments. “With the wet weather we've had we just ... Lire la suite...
Niska North Inc. accepts wood supply offer
27 Juin 2011 21:00Niska North Inc. of Chapleau, Ontario has accepted a wood supply offer from the province for 97,800 cubic metres per year of white birch, poplar, red and white pine, and other ... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp invests $10 in innovation
27 Juin 2011 08:00Canfor Pulp Products Inc., which owns 49.8% of Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (CPLP), has announced three major new investments in innovation for the company in a ceremony on Friday, opening the ... Lire la suite...
Cause of North Enderby Timber fire still unknown
26 Juin 2011 18:00Officials have spent a week sifting through the damage a fire caused at North Enderby Timber on June 17, but have been unable to pinpoint the cause of the fire. A ... Lire la suite...
Taiga Building Products reports net quarterly loss of $1.8 million
26 Juin 2011 18:00Taiga Building Products has reported a fourth quarter net loss of $1.8 million compared to net earnings of $1.1 million in the same quarter last year. For the company’s fiscal year ... Lire la suite...
Rosko Forestry Operations accepts wood supply offer
24 Juin 2011 13:00Rosko Forestry Operations Ltd. in Kirkland Lake has accepted a wood supply offer from the province of Ontario for 138,500 cubic metres per year of merchantable cedar, spruce, pine, fir, white ... Lire la suite...
Umoe Solar creates 0 jobs, take government grants, exports Crown lumber, and now costs taxpayers another $11 million
24 Juin 2011 09:00Norway’s Umoe Solar cancelled their plans to build a solar cells plant on the site of the former UPM Kymmene paper mill site in Miramichi, New Brunswick in 2010. THE ... Lire la suite...
Don Demens named Western Forest Products's new Chief Operating Officer
24 Juin 2011 09:00Western Forest Products Inc. has announced that it has appointed Don Demens as Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation. Mr. Demens has been Western’s Senior Vice President of Sales ... Lire la suite...
White Birch Paper schedules downtime in Quebec
23 Juin 2011 14:00White Birch Paper Company is halting production at its 3 Quebec mills during the last week in June. The 3 mills are: Quebec City Masson Angers Riviere de Loup Production of newsprint ... Lire la suite...
Tolko announces temporary curtailment of veneer & plywood production
23 Juin 2011 08:00Tolko Industries Ltd. has announced that due to continuing poor market conditions, it will temporarily curtail panel production. White Valley Division's veneer operation at Lumby, BC, and Armstrong Division's plywood ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater, Weyerhaeuser, and Wincrief Forestry Products accept wood supply offers
22 Juin 2011 13:00Ontario has announced 3 more wood supply offers. The latest offers go to: AbitibiBowater in Fort Frances, has accepted a wood supply offer for 317,500 cubic metres per year of merchantable and ... Lire la suite...
Alberta's climate corporation distributes $15 million to 3 renewable-energy projects
22 Juin 2011 11:00The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. (CCEMC) is an arm’s-length corporation created by the Alberta province government. CCEMC collects money in from emissions violations and invests the money ... Lire la suite...
Kruger schedules downtime at 3 paper mills in Quebec
22 Juin 2011 11:00Kruger Inc. has scheduled a production shutdown for three of its Quebec paper mills: Trois-Rivières Brompton Wayagamack These mills will be shut down between June 23 and June 28, 2011. This temporary ... Lire la suite...
Fire destroys planer at North Enderby Timber
21 Juin 2011 20:00On Friday a fire destroyed a planer at North Enderby Timber in Enderby, British Columbia. Close to 30 people work at the planer. Eight of the workers have been temporarily laid ... Lire la suite...
Toronto's Ash tree removal plans
21 Juin 2011 11:00Due to the Emerald Ash Borer invasion, the city of Toronto estimates that by 2017, all of the ash trees in the city will be dead or dying. The emerald ash ... Lire la suite...
Wilderness Committee files legal action against Manitoba to clarify logging ban
20 Juin 2011 19:00The Wilderness Committee has filed a legal action against the Manitoba government, with the intent of clarifying the recent ban on logging in Manitoba provincial parks. Despite bringing in a ... Lire la suite...
TimberWest receives final court approval for acquisition by BCIMC and PSP Investments
20 Juin 2011 08:00TimberWest Forest Corp. has announced that the British Columbia Supreme Court has issued a final order approving the statutory plan of arrangement under which British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and ... Lire la suite...
Official announcement for the addition of CWP's Hardwood team
20 Juin 2011 00:00We are pleased to announce the addition of Bruce Oliver and Mike Greetham to the CWP family. Mike and Bruce have been selling North American hardwoods to the Middle East ... Lire la suite...
4 new wood supply offers accepted in Thunder Bay
17 Juin 2011 21:00Four new wood supply offers have been accepted in the Thunder Bay, Ontario area. The government of Ontario has offered a wood supply to: AbitibiBowater has accepted two offers totalling 621,600 ... Lire la suite...
Updates from Miramichi
17 Juin 2011 10:00The Miramichi region of New Brunswick was hit hard when the forestry sector collapsed. For a time last year, there wasn’t a single mill left operating on the Miramichi. ... Lire la suite...
Biomass Secure Power announces approval of new pellet plant in B.C.
16 Juin 2011 14:00Biomass Secure Power Inc.has announced a Project start date of July 1st 2011 for the construction of their first 500,000 tonne/yr whitewood pellet plant has been accepted by its Board ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber announces first quarter results
16 Juin 2011 11:00EACOM Timber Corporation has announced its first quarter results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2011. On June 30, 2010, EACOM completed the acquisition of the Domtar forest products business, which transformed EACOM ... Lire la suite...
Alberta firefighters fighting biggest fire they've ever fought
16 Juin 2011 08:00The Richardson fire in Alberta, is the biggest wildfire that firefighters have ever fought in the province. The fire is located roughly 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, and has burned 595,000 ... Lire la suite...
Short curtailment at Tolko's Lakeview mill
15 Juin 2011 08:00Tolko‘s Lakeview mill, in British Columbia, is undergoing a “short-term closure” starting today, due to weather-related harvesting curtailments. 185 employees are temporarily laid off. It has been a long wet ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper achieves company-wide FSC certification
15 Juin 2011 08:00Catalyst Paper has achieved Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) controlled wood and chain-of-custody certifications at its three Canadian manufacturing operations. Catalyst had already implemented FSC chain-of-custody at its recycle mill in ... Lire la suite...
TimberWest acquisition approved by company unitholders and optionholders
14 Juin 2011 21:00TimberWest Forest Corp. has announced that the company’s unitholders and optionholders have approved the proposed acquisition of TimberWest by British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and the Public Sector Pension ... Lire la suite...
Domtar's new Paper Trail
14 Juin 2011 20:00Domtar has created an online tool called the “Paper Trail” that allows customers to see the environmental impacts of Domtar’s specific paper grades. The reports that are produced for ... Lire la suite...
Nominations are open for a joint FPAC-AFN Business Leadership Award
14 Juin 2011 08:00The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) today announced that nominations are open for a joint FPAC-AFN Business Leadership Award. The award recognizes ... Lire la suite...
Formaldehyde, widely used in engineered wood products, declared a human carcinogen by the U.S.
14 Juin 2011 08:00The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has added formaldehyde to a list of carcinogens. In addition to being used in medical laboratories and mortuaries as a preservative, ... Lire la suite...
Conifex and B.C. Hydro reach a deal for energy purchase in Mackenzie, B.C.
14 Juin 2011 08:00Conifex Timber Inc. has finalized an Electricity Purchase Agreement (EPA) and a Load Displacement Agreement (LDA), through a subsidiary company, with BC Hydro in connection with the company’s planned ... Lire la suite...
Ontario Minister of Northern Development, Mines & Forestry responds to Dubreuilville
13 Juin 2011 19:00From Michael Gravelle – Ontario’s Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry, in response to Dubreuilville, Ontario fights to save their mill… and their town The wood supply competitive process ... Lire la suite...
Dubreuilville, Ontario fights to save their mill… and their town
13 Juin 2011 14:00The Corporation of the Township of Dubreuilville, Ontario, has issued a press release today: Dalton McGuinty Liberals Continue to Destroy Northern Towns Dubreuilville, the most forest dependent community in Ontario ... Lire la suite...
Forestry sector training in Dryden, Ontario
12 Juin 2011 19:00240 residents of Northern Ontario will begin training this year in Dryden, Ontario for jobs in the forest sector. With $3.6 million support from the Northern Training Partnership Fund, the Two Feathers ... Lire la suite...
Layoffs at Tembec's sawmill in Cochrane, ON expected to end soon
10 Juin 2011 21:00There are 120 unionized Tembec employees on lay off from the company’s sawmill in Cochrane, Ontario. This is the fourth layoff at the sawmill in the past 2 years. Jamie Klomp, ... Lire la suite...
Olav Haavaldsrud Timber Company Ltd. receives wood supply offer in Ontario
10 Juin 2011 21:00Olav Haavaldsrud Timber Company Limited has received a wood supply offer for their sawmill in Hornepayne, Ontario. The company has accepted the offer of 220,000 cubic metres per year of wood ... Lire la suite...
Satellite imagery of Alberta and Saskatchewan wildfires
10 Juin 2011 08:00This is a satellite image from NASA‘s Earth Observatory, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on June 8, 2011. The area shown is northeastern Alberta ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater shares audio recording of Richard Garneau's address at annual meeting
09 Juin 2011 20:00After closing its doors to the media this morning, AbitibiBowater has released an audio recording of President and CEO Richard Garneau‘s address to the annual meeting today, without Garneau’... Lire la suite...
Domtar workers schedule strike vote in Espanola, ON for next week
09 Juin 2011 19:00The largest union local at Domtar‘s mill in Espanola, Ontario has schedule a strike vote for next Thursday, June 16. The local, The Communication, Paper and Energy Union of Canada, ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater keeps public and media out of its annual meeting
09 Juin 2011 11:00AbitibiBowater is not letting the public, nor the media, into their annual meeting today in Montreal. Annual meetings are usually open to the public in Canada, but AbitibiBowater said their ... Lire la suite...
FREE: Leafsnap tree species identification for iPhone & iPad
09 Juin 2011 09:00Leafsnap is a revolutionary new electronic field guide for identifying trees. Unlike any other tree identification app, Leafsnap requires you to use your iPhone or iPad to take a photo ... Lire la suite...
Partners in Protection wants $1 million to promote a National FireSmart initiative
08 Juin 2011 08:00Partners in Protection is a non-profit group made up of volunteers from: Canadian Forest Service Parks Canada provincial & territorial governments industry some municipalities in Western Canada The group is seeking $1 ... Lire la suite...
Kitwanga mill opening pushed back one week due to wet weather
08 Juin 2011 08:00The opening of the Kitwanga sawmill in British Columbia is being pushed back from June 6 to June 13 due to the wet weather. The management of the mill hopes the extra ... Lire la suite...
Is the sale of Atikokan Forest Products still possible?
07 Juin 2011 10:00In early May, EACOM Timber Corp. announced it had entered into asset purchase agreements with PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., in its capacity as court-appointed receiver of each of Northern Sawmills Inc. and ... Lire la suite...
TimberWest's “go-shop” process has not resulted in a superior proposal
07 Juin 2011 10:00TimberWest Forest Corp. has announced that its 60-day “go-shop” solicitation process has not yielded a superior proposal, indicating that the proposed acquisition of the Company by two leading Canadian pension ... Lire la suite...
Forest Products Association of Canada gives a thumbs up to the federal budget
06 Juin 2011 20:00The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is welcoming the budgetary measures contained in today’s Federal Budget that support the industry and the 240,000 Canadians who work in the sector. “... Lire la suite...
Sino-Forest responds to allegations that caused their stock to drop 71% last week
06 Juin 2011 10:00Last week, a short-seller, Carson Block, and his investment firm, Muddy Waters Research, who were never heard of before, made allegations against Sino-Forest Corporation that caused Sino-Forest’s stock to ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater receives 1,400 suggestions for its new name
05 Juin 2011 20:00AbitibiBowater is eager to re-brand their company with a new name. In a letter to their customers, AbitibiBowater said, “Following the challenging period of our restructuring, it is important to ... Lire la suite...
CelluForce – a joint venture between Domtar and FPInnovations
05 Juin 2011 20:00Domtar and FPInnovations are pleased to announce CelluForce, the corporate identity chosen for their new joint venture, launched in July 2010. CelluForce will manufacture nanocrystalline cellulose, a recyclable and renewable nanomaterial, ... Lire la suite...
Forest fire threat evacuates 2 northern Saskatchewan communities
02 Juin 2011 09:00The residents of Wollaston Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nations are “facing imminent danger” due to a major forest fire in northern Saskatchewan. Smoke and shifting winds were hampering the ... Lire la suite...
Bark fire at AbitibiBowater in Thunder Bay
01 Juin 2011 08:00Last evening a fire broke out in a pile of bark at AbitibiBowater‘s mill in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Winds were strong, and smoke was blown from the fire through ... Lire la suite...
Kruger obtains FSC Chain of Custody certification for several of its Quebec mills
31 Mai 2011 13:00Kruger Inc., Industrial Products Division, today announced that its three Québec paper mills and its three sawmills have been awarded Chain of Custody (CoC) certification by the Forest Stewardship ... Lire la suite...
15 Southern Ontario high school students are travelling to Northwestern Ontario to learn about forest management
30 Mai 2011 21:00Fifteen high school students from southern Ontario high schools will be joining northwestern Ontario high school students for a three day course in forest conservation in Dryden from May 31 – June 2, 2011. ... Lire la suite...
Wet'suwet'en win harvesting injunction against Canfor in B.C.
30 Mai 2011 21:00The British Columbia Supreme Court has granted an injunction which restrains Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (“Canfor”) from engaging in timber harvesting activities within a culturally vital portion of Ilk K’... Lire la suite...
Interfor gets a new logo
30 Mai 2011 19:00Today, International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) introduced a new corporate identity as part of its plan to reposition the company’s global brand. The implementation of a new integrated brand ... Lire la suite...
Aftermath of a forest fire: Slave Lake
28 Mai 2011 20:00The Edmonton Journal has excellent coverage this weekend of Slave Lake, Alberta, as the residents begin to re-populate the town. At least 430 homes were destroyed by a forest fire almost 2 ... Lire la suite...
Pilot killed in helicopter crash has been identified
28 Mai 2011 20:00The pilot of the helicopter that crashed near Slave Lake, Alberta last week while fighting the forest fires, has been identified as Jean-Luc Deba, 54, of Montreal. Deba worked for Campbell ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater closes sale of its 75% interest in Ontario Hydro Assets
27 Mai 2011 18:00AbitibiBowater announced today the closure of the sale of its 75% indirect interest in ACH Limited Partnership to a consortium formed by a major Canadian institutional investor and a private Canadian ... Lire la suite...
Howe Sound Pulp and Paper's boiler upgrades begin next week
27 Mai 2011 08:00Howe Sound Pulp and Paper is notifying the town of Gibsons, British Columbia, that there is a chance they may catch a whiff of rotten eggs next week when the ... Lire la suite...
Conifex reports net quarterly loss of $3.6 million
26 Mai 2011 19:00Conifex Timber Inc. has reported a net loss of $3.6 million in its latest quarter. A year ago, Conifex reported a net loss of $1.6 million in the first quarter of 2010. First ... Lire la suite...
Previous owners are responsible for cleaning up Thunder Bay Fine Papers site
26 Mai 2011 09:00An environmental review tribunal has decided that the environmental concerns of the idled Thunder Bay Fine Papers mill are the responsibility of its former owners: Superior Fine Papers and Cascades ... Lire la suite...
Introducing the new Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation
26 Mai 2011 08:00Communities in the Marathon, Ontario area, including the First Nations and partners from the forest industry, have come together and are proposing a new body called the Nawiinginokiima Forest Management ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek and the Saint-Félicien mill employee union sign new collective agreement
25 Mai 2011 18:00The members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP, local 24-Q) have voted in favour of a new collective bargaining agreement based on the agreement in principle ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper updates downtime schedule for its Powell River and Snowflake mills
25 Mai 2011 09:00Catalyst Paper has indicated that total downtime at its Powell River and Snowflake mills in the second quarter is expected to be 25 days rather than 14 days as previously announced. In ... Lire la suite...
“Asia's worst environmental criminals” taking over Canadian pulp mills
25 Mai 2011 08:00A scathing article was published yesterday about Paper Excellence and the horrible financial and environmental track record of its parent company, Asia Pulp and Paper – the forestry arm of the ... Lire la suite...
TimberWest posts improved quarterly results
21 Mai 2011 22:00Higher volumes and prices in Asia and lower costs resulted in much stronger operating results for TimberWest in the first quarter of 2011. TimberWest reported EBITDA of $16.2 million for the quarter, ... Lire la suite...
Helicopter pilot dies in crash near Slave Lake, Alberta
20 Mai 2011 22:00A helicopter pilot was killed today when his Bell 212 crashed near Canyon Creek – near Slave Lake, Alberta. The pilot was working in Alberta as part of the fire fighting effort. ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater files tax appeal in Fort Frances, Ontario
20 Mai 2011 15:00AbitibiBowater has filed an appeal with the Municipal Property Assessment Corp.’s Assessment Review Board for its mill property in Fort Frances, Ontario. The appeal covers the years: 2009, 2010, 2011 AbitibiBowater wants ... Lire la suite...
KD Quality Pellets of New Liskeard, Ontario accepts a wood supply offer
19 Mai 2011 15:00KD Quality Pellets, a logging company of New Liskeard, Ontario, has accepted a new wood supply offer from the Province of Ontario. The offer is for 90,000 cubic metres per year ... Lire la suite...
Canadian Wood Council releases statement about fire safety of wood buildings
19 Mai 2011 08:00The following has been written by By Michael Giroux, President, Canadian Wood Council In the last few weeks, including just today in B.C., there have been many outrageous comments ... Lire la suite...
BCGEU releases B.C. forest sector crisis report
19 Mai 2011 08:00A new report prepared by the British Columbia Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU), with contributions from residents of forest-dependent communities, finds B.C. forests are in crisis due to ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek posts profit of $3.5 million in first quarter of 2011
18 Mai 2011 20:00Fibrek Inc. has posted a net profit in its first quarter of $3.457 million. This can be compared to the net loss of $1.7 million the company reported in the first quarter ... Lire la suite...
Meet our new Minister of Natural Resources – Joe Oliver
18 Mai 2011 12:00MP Joe Oliver was selected today to head Canada’s Natural Resources portfolio. Joe Oliver, MP for Toronto’s riding of Eglinton-Lawrence, is a new Member of Parliament. Joe Oliver’... Lire la suite...
Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement celebrates 1st anniversary
18 Mai 2011 11:00Environmental groups and forest products companies that signed the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) say significant strides have been made in the past year to turn the landmark agreement into ... Lire la suite...
Interfor reports net quarterly loss of $1.7 million
18 Mai 2011 08:00International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) has reported a net loss of $1.7 million in the first quarter of 2011. Included in the company’s accounts for the quarter was the effect of ... Lire la suite...
Transportation bottleneck in British Columbia
17 Mai 2011 21:00Wood products from British Columbia traditionally have moved south to the United States by way of rail or truck, and to a lesser degree, by sea. Now with the demand ... Lire la suite...
Ontario passes Ontario Forest Tenure Modernization Act
17 Mai 2011 19:00Ontario passed its Ontario Forest Tenure Modernization Act (Bill 151) in its legislature today. The Act changes the forest tenure system and provides a more competitive market environment in the allocation ... Lire la suite...
Firefighting assistance on its way to Alberta
17 Mai 2011 09:00To keep up to date with the fire situation in Alberta, use these helpful links from the Government of Alberta: On the Web On Twitter On Facebook The Canadian Interagency ... Lire la suite...
TimberWest releases comments on “Hul'qumi'num matters”
17 Mai 2011 09:00TimberWest Forest Corp. has released comments on matters raised by the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group regarding the proposed purchase of TimberWest’s stapled units by two leading Canadian pension ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater posts net quarterly income of $30 million
16 Mai 2011 20:00AbitibiBowater has posted a net income of $30 million in its first quarter of 2011 on sales of $1.185 billion. The first-quarter result marks the company’s strongest operating performance in 4 years and ... Lire la suite...
Fires devastate Slave Lake, Alberta
16 Mai 2011 08:00A fast moving wildlife has moved into Slave Lake in Northern Alberta. The truth of the devastation is not yet fully known. Here is what we know so far: around 6... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber acquires remaining stake of Elk Lake sawmill
14 Mai 2011 15:00EACOM Timber Corporation has announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Liskeard Lumber Limited to acquire the remaining one-third of the Elk Lake sawmill, near Elk ... Lire la suite...
Will a power hike in Nova Scotia close Bowater Mersey?
14 Mai 2011 09:00Nova Scotia Power has just applied for yet another rate hike. This time they are requesting a hike of 13.5% from their two largest customers – Bowater Mersey and NewPage Port Hawkesbury. ... Lire la suite...
Kruger and Industries Perron partner to restart two lumber mills in Mauricie, Quebec
13 Mai 2011 14:00Kruger Publication Papers Inc. (KPPI) and Industries Perron today announced the formation of a partnership to create a new commercial entity that will manufacture value-added lumber products. The announcement was ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth posts net income of $77.7 million in its first quarter of 2011
13 Mai 2011 10:00Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has posted a net income of $77.7 million on sales of $71.5 million in its first quarter. These results can be compared the net income of $16.4 million Ainsworth ... Lire la suite...
PRT plans to convert to a corporation
13 Mai 2011 10:00PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund has announced that, in accordance with its previously announced intention to convert to a corporation, it has entered into an arrangement agreement under which the ... Lire la suite...
Sale of Northern Pulp to Paper Excellence complete
12 Mai 2011 14:00Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC and Atlas Holdings LLC completed the sale of Northern Resources Nova Scotia Corporation to Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Corp of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, the ... Lire la suite...
Cascades posts net loss of $8 million in its first quarter
12 Mai 2011 10:00Cascades Inc. has posted a net loss of $8 million in its first quarter on sales of $774 million. By comparison, in the first quarter of 2010, Cascades posted a net profit of $1 ... Lire la suite...
NewPage posts net quarterly loss of $88 million
12 Mai 2011 09:00NewPage Corporation has posted a net loss of $88 million in its first quarter on net sales of $904 million. Sales are up 11% over the first quarter of 2010. The increase was primarily ... Lire la suite...
McKenzie Forest Products files for bankruptcy protection
12 Mai 2011 08:00After learning their Hudson sawmill had not received a wood supply from the province of Ontario, McKenzie Forest Products filed for bankruptcy protection on April 26. Except for a brief opening ... Lire la suite...
Update on lignin production in Thunder Bay
11 Mai 2011 19:00FPInnovations in partnership with the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio Economy (CRIBE), Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), and AbitibiBowater is now producing its first batches of operational lignin ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia: The Woodbridge Report
11 Mai 2011 09:00The much anticipated Woodbridge Report was released in Nova Scotia yesterday. The Nova Scotia Government has decided to reduce clearcutting in the province by 50% over the next 5 years. Peter Woodbridge ... Lire la suite...
Workers on strike at Tembec's pulp mill in Matane, Quebec
10 Mai 2011 15:00Following a breakdown in labour discussions between Tembec representatives and the union representatives at the Tembec high-yield pulp mill located in Matane, Quebec, unionized employees did not report to work ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia invests $5 million into reducing clearcutting
10 Mai 2011 12:00Nova Scotia is making a $5-million investment will help the province achieve its target of reducing clearcutting to 50% of the total harvest over the next five years. The funding, announced ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reports net loss of $1 million in its first quarter
10 Mai 2011 11:00Western Forest Products is reporting a net loss of $1 million in its first quarter of 2011, on sales of $180.8 million, compared to a net income of $9.1 million a year earlier. Highlights ... Lire la suite...
Springer Creek Forest Products mill soon to be indefinitely idled
09 Mai 2011 18:00Springer Creek Forest Products in Slocan, British Columbia will be indefinitely idling its mill in the next few weeks. The mill was restarted last June after a 14 month closure. General ... Lire la suite...
Canfor announces its new executive team
07 Mai 2011 17:00Canfor Corporation is announcing the membership of its new executive team. David Calabrigo – Senior VP, Corporate and Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary Alistair Cook – Senior VP, Wood Products Operations – ... Lire la suite...
Jet fuel will be made from wood in White River, Ontario
06 Mai 2011 12:00Rentech Inc. has accepted a wood supply offer from Ontario and has big plans for White River, Ontario. Rentech is a leading-edge clean-energy solutions company that plans to use its ... Lire la suite...
Canfor reports net income of $32.3 million in first quarter
05 Mai 2011 08:00Canfor Corporation has posted a net income of $32.3 million for the first quarter of 2011, compared to $55.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2010 and $35.5 million for the first quarter of 2010. Lumber ... Lire la suite...
First wood framed housing project in Richmond, B.C. lost in massive fire
04 Mai 2011 10:00A massive fire destroyed the controversial wood-framed housing project being constructed in Richmond, British Columbia last night. The building was taking advantage of British Columbia’s Wood First initiative and ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber posts profit of $19 million in first quarter
03 Mai 2011 20:00West Fraser Timber has posted a profit of $19 million in its first quarter of 2011 on sales of $687 million. “We are pleased with our operating performance which produced another quarter of ... Lire la suite...
Why isn't St. Marys Paper restarting operations after repairs? Because it has no orders
03 Mai 2011 19:00The Sault Star is reporting that St. Marys Paper has isolated the mechanical problem with its paper machine #5, but because of the downtime caused by the repair, their customers have ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's Fort Frances mill to get new general manager
03 Mai 2011 19:00Andre Bernier will begin his job next week as the new General Manager at AbitibiBowater‘s Fort Frances mill in Ontario. Bernier will bring more than 30 years of experience working ... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp Products Inc. and Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership report first quarter results
03 Mai 2011 08:00Canfor Pulp Products Inc. (CPPI) have announced its first quarter 2011 results as well as the results of Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (the Partnership) in which CPPI has a 49.8% ownership. The ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber to purchase assets of Northern Sawmills and Atikokan Forest Products
03 Mai 2011 08:00EACOM Timber Corporation has announced that it has entered into asset purchase agreements with PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., in its capacity as court-appointed receiver of each of Northern Sawmills Inc. and Atikokan ... Lire la suite...
Newfoundland and Labrador gives $4.3 million to improve workers' skills at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper
02 Mai 2011 11:00The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is providing $4.3 million dollars to help the 450 workers at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper upgrade their skills. The hope is the training will improve ... Lire la suite...
Luc Langevin is the new President and Chief Operating Officer of Cascades Specialty Products Group
02 Mai 2011 10:00Cascades Inc. has announced the appointment of Luc Langevin as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Cascades Specialty Products Group (SPG). Since 1995, Luc Langevin has occupied management positions within ... Lire la suite...
Forest Fire Links to Bookmark
02 Mai 2011 07:00Today, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre begins its daily national fire situation reporting for the year. View the latest National Forest Fire Situation Report: Daily situation report Provincial/Territory ... Lire la suite...
All of St. Marys Paper employees indefinitely laid off
30 Avril 2011 16:00St. Marys Paper in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario has laid off all of its employees, just 4 months after restarting operations. Two weeks ago the company laid off half of its ... Lire la suite...
Domtar and Wagner accept wood supply offers in Ontario
29 Avril 2011 12:00Domtar and Wagner Ontario Forest Management Limited have accepted wood supply offers in Ontario. Domtar Inc. has accepted an offer of 626,000 cubic metres per year of merchantable and unmerchantable wood ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia Power's rate projections will hurt Newpage and Bowater Mersey
28 Avril 2011 09:00Nova Scotia Power has provided a projection of the electricity rates for the upcoming years. And the news isn’t good for the province’s biggest consumers – namely Newpage Port ... Lire la suite...
Domtar posts first quarter net earnings of $133 million
28 Avril 2011 08:00Domtar Corporation has reported net earnings of $133 million in its first quarter of 2011, compared to net earnings of $58 million in the first quarter of 2010. Sales for the first quarter amounted ... Lire la suite...
International Paper posts quarterly net earnings of $342 million
28 Avril 2011 08:00International Paper has posted first quarter earnings attributable to common shareholders totaling $342 million compared with net earnings of $316 million in the fourth quarter of 2010 and a loss of $162 million in ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper posts net quarterly loss of $12.9 million
27 Avril 2011 20:00Catalyst Paper has posted a net loss of $12.9 million on sales of $303.6 million in the first quarter of 2011, reflecting a post-holiday season plateau in paper markets. Sales revenues were negatively ... Lire la suite...
Prince Albert pulp mill deal complete – Restart possible in 12 months
27 Avril 2011 20:00Paper Excellence‘s purchase of the Prince Albert pulp mill in Saskatchewan has been finalized. The mill has been closed for 5 years. Paper Excellence plans to invest $200 million into the ... Lire la suite...
Ronald J. Arling is NewPage's newest Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
27 Avril 2011 19:00NewPage Corporation has announced the appointment of Ronald J. Arling to the position of controller and chief accounting officer, effective April 25, 2011. Arling will report to the senior vice president and ... Lire la suite...
Tembec posts net quarterly earnings of $7 million
27 Avril 2011 10:00Tembec has reported net earnings of $7 million on consolidated sales of $452 million in its second quarter ending March 26, 2011. Operating earnings before depreciation, amortization and other specific or non-recurring items (EBITDA) ... Lire la suite...
Smurfit-Stone posts net quarterly income of $54 million
26 Avril 2011 19:00Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation has recorded a net income of $54 million in its first quarter. In its previous quarter, the company recorded a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $91 million. ... Lire la suite...
Mr. Jean-François Mérette leaving EACOM Timber
26 Avril 2011 19:00EACOM Timber Corporation has announced that Mr. Jean-François Mérette, President and COO, Eastern Canada has advised that he will be leaving the company on June 18, 2011 to pursue other ... Lire la suite...
Whitesand First Nation accepts wood supply offer from Ontario
26 Avril 2011 11:00The Whitesand First Nation, located north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, near Armstrong, has accepted a wood supply offer from the province of Ontario. The wood supply offer is for 149,000 cubic ... Lire la suite...
Kimberly-Clark posts quarterly net income of $372 million
25 Avril 2011 21:00Kimberly-Clark has posted first quarter earnings of $350 million on sales of $5.03 billion. These results are down from the first quarter of 2010, when the company reported net income of $384 million on ... Lire la suite...
Tembec's non-operating U.S. subsidiary files for Chapter 7
25 Avril 2011 21:00Tembec Inc. announced today that its non-operating U.S. Subsidiary, Tembec USA LLC has filed a petition seeking relief under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States. Tembec ... Lire la suite...
Cascades invests $3.5 million in its Forma-Pak plant in Quebec
22 Avril 2011 22:00This week Cascades announced the inauguration of a new machine that will be used in the manufacturing of moulded pulp products at its Cascades Forma-Pak plant in central Quebec. Since 2010, ... Lire la suite...
The tires Kruger thought about burning are going away
22 Avril 2011 21:00Newfoundland and Labrador have been stockpiling a massive amount of used tires simply because they have no method of disposing of them. Kruger, in Corner Brook, has looked into chipping ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper lays off half its employees due to mechanical problem
22 Avril 2011 08:00St. Marys Paper, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, has laid off half of its employees. The super calendered paper mill has only been operational this time for four months, but ... Lire la suite...
United Steelworkers reach tentative deal with Interior Forest Labour Relations Association
21 Avril 2011 15:00A tentative agreement has been reached between the United Steelworkers(USW) and the Interior Forest Labor Relations Association after an all-night bargaining session in Vancouver. The agreement has a 4 year ... Lire la suite...
Free: Tree identification app for iPhone
20 Avril 2011 11:00Now you can have help identifying trees, for free, using your iPhone! Steve Nix (the forester who runs the http://forestry.about.com website), and app developer Ash Mishra, have ... Lire la suite...
Saskatchewan welcomes 4 upgraded firefighting aircraft
20 Avril 2011 08:00Saskatchewan welcomed the arrival of the first of four CL-215T amphibious aircraft upgraded to the turbine powered model. The aircraft will be joining the province’s wildfire air tanker ... Lire la suite...
Forest workers ready to strike in British Columbia
20 Avril 2011 08:00Forestry workers in British Columbia‘s southern interior are ready to strike. Last week the United Steelworkers union filed their required 72 hours notice of strike action against the member companies ... Lire la suite...
Carrier Lumber Products wants EACOM Timber's idled Big River sawmill in Saskatchewan
20 Avril 2011 08:00Carrier Lumber Products is planning a major expansion. The company operates a mill near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and has made a pitch to take over the idled Big River sawmill ... Lire la suite...
Dalhousie University receives grant to study forest road crossings
19 Avril 2011 13:00Dalhousie University‘s School of Resource and Environmental Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia has received a Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) Conservation and Community Partnerships Grant to develop best management practices ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper cuts production at its Snowflake Mill in Arizona to balance inventory, then loses half of its inventory in a fire
19 Avril 2011 08:00Last week Catalyst Paper announced it was curtailing production at its Snowflake Mill in Arizona by approximately 5,500 tonnes of recycled newsprint in order to adjust for limited availability of affordable, ... Lire la suite...
Goulard Lumber Limited accepts wood supply offer in Ontario
18 Avril 2011 15:00Goulard Lumber Limited, of West Nipissing, Ontario, has accepted a wood supply offer of 59,700 cubic metres per year of white and red pine from the province of Ontario 20 new jobs ... Lire la suite...
New Boreal Business Forum unveiled by signatories of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
18 Avril 2011 09:00Signatories to the landmark Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) today unveiled a new Boreal Business Forum which is a roundtable comprised of CBFA participants, leading corporations and investors with a ... Lire la suite...
Forest biomass pilot plant funding in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
17 Avril 2011 16:00The Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) has announced a $923,261 investment to expand Elementa Group's Pre-Commercial Demonstration Plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario This funding will allow ... Lire la suite...
50 new jobs at AbitibiBowater sawmill in Thunder Bay, Ontario
17 Avril 2011 16:00Thunder Bay‘s AbitibiBowater sawmill will soon have 50 new jobs thanks to an $8 million investment from the company’s board of directors. With good news coming from the sawmill lately, ... Lire la suite...
NewPage names Curtis Short as interim Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
15 Avril 2011 11:00NewPage Corporation today announced that Curtis H. Short, currently controller and chief accounting officer, has been elected as senior vice president and chief financial officer on an interim basis effective ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia invests $10 million in Harry Freeman and Sons Ltd.
14 Avril 2011 20:00The province of Nova Scotia is investing $10 million in Harry Freeman and Sons Ltd., who operates Freeman Lumber in Queens County. This is a third investment in the company from ... Lire la suite...
Free access to current issue of The Forestry Chronicle
14 Avril 2011 10:00The Canadian Institute of Forestry has made its current issue of The Forestry Chronicle free and open for all to read. The March-April issue focuses on vegetation management options and ... Lire la suite...
Forest Tech accepts wood supply offer from Ontario
13 Avril 2011 14:00Forest Tech has accepted a wood supply offer from the province of Ontario for 7,000 cubic metres of cedar per year. Forest Tech operates a sawmill on Manitoulin Island. With the ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia forest products companies donate to Japan relief effort
13 Avril 2011 08:00Canfor, Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership, West Fraser, Tolko, and Interfor have each donated $100,000 to the Canadian Red Cross to provide immediate relief in Japan. The Province of British Columbia will ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia decides to lower the cap on electricity from biomass
11 Avril 2011 21:00Nova Scotia has decided to lower the cap on the annual amount of new forest biomass that can be used to generate electricity by 30% – to 350,000 dry tonnes per year. The ... Lire la suite...
Tembec to proceed with construction of Next Generation Sustainable Fibre pilot plant
11 Avril 2011 13:00Tembec has announced that it will proceed with the construction of a pilot plant for the development of a high performance structural product known as Next Generation Sustainable Fibre (“Next ... Lire la suite...
TimberWest to be acquired by two Canadian pension funds
11 Avril 2011 08:00TimberWest has agreed to be acquired by Canadian pension funds, British Columbia Investment Management Corp. (bcIMC) and Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments). The transaction is for $1.03 billion cash, ... Lire la suite...
CEP not pleased with Ontario's limited forest tenure hearings
11 Avril 2011 08:00The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) has added their voice of displeasure to Ontario’s move to limit consultations on forest tenure changes to two hearings in ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater posts net profit of $4.24 billion in 4th quarter
08 Avril 2011 10:00AbitibiBowater has posted a net profit of $4.24 billion (U.S.) in its fourth quarter of 2010. Over the full year of 2010, AbitibiBowater has recorded a net profit of $2.61 billion. The large ... Lire la suite...
Surprise Ontario court decision could be good news for protecting our pensions
08 Avril 2011 09:00A surprise decision was reached by the Ontario Court of Appeal yesterday. The court ruled in favour of the former employees of Indalex, a failed manufacturer of aluminum products, who ... Lire la suite...
Ontario and Grassy Narrows First Nation sign Memorandum of Understanding
07 Avril 2011 14:00The province of Ontario and the Grassy Narrows First Nation (Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek) have recommitted to working together to address the First Nation community concerns and the sustainable management of ... Lire la suite...
Forest Products Association of Canada launches Bio-pathways Partnership Network
07 Avril 2011 13:00The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Bio-pathways Partnership Network aimed at exploring new business ventures that will help exploit the ... Lire la suite...
Wawasum Corporation and South Wabi Sawmill accept Ontario wood supply offers
05 Avril 2011 20:00Two more wood supply offers have been accepted in Ontario, creating 23 new jobs, and sustaining 3 existing jobs. Wawasum Corporation, near Greenstone, Ontario, was offered 113,000 cubic metres per year of poplar ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber sells Skeena Sawmills Division
05 Avril 2011 08:00West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. has entered an agreement to sell its Skeena Sawmills Division to ROC Holdings Ltd. The Skeena Sawmills Division includes the Terrace sawmill and related Crown ... Lire la suite...
Explosion at Pinnacle Pellet in Armstrong, B.C.
04 Avril 2011 08:00An explosion occurred at Pinnacle Pellet in Armstrong, British Columbia on Saturday night. The explosion caused a fire that quickly spread through the basement and into the attic. Two workers ... Lire la suite...
Forest tenure consultations scheduled only for Toronto, far from Ontario's northern forests
02 Avril 2011 08:00The citizens of Northern Ontario are disgusted that the consultations for Bill 151, the Forest Tenure Modernization Act, will take place only in Toronto. “We didn’t have any input into ... Lire la suite...
Cheminis Lumber Ltd. accepts Ontario wood supply offer
01 Avril 2011 22:00Cheminis Lumber Limited, of Larder Lake, Ontario, has accepted a wood supply offer from the Province of Ontario. The offer was for 28,300 cubic metres per year of conifer. The Cheminis ... Lire la suite...
The University of Toronto may lose its Faculty of Forestry
01 Avril 2011 21:00The Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto has a bleak future due to low enrollment. The University of Toronto had the first forestry faculty in Canada, and the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater closes one paper machine at Baie Comeau, Quebec
01 Avril 2011 19:00AbitibiBowater has announced it will be permanently closing a paper machine at its Baie Comeau, Quebec mill. More than 90 jobs will be lost. Renaud Gagné, vice-president of the Communications, Energy ... Lire la suite...
Tolko Industries asks Williams Lake to reconsider its industrial tax rate
31 Mars 2011 20:00Tolko Industries representatives have asked Williams Lake, British Columbia to reconsider their industrial tax rate. Tolko’s opinion is that economic conditions have been tough, and that industry in Williams ... Lire la suite...
Why McKenzie Forest Products didn't receive a wood supply
31 Mars 2011 20:00The Sioux Lookout Bulletin has an in-depth article this week about McKenzie Forest Products in Hudson, Ontario, the possible reasons why it wasn’t granted a wood supply, and a ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater schedules another 2 week shut down in Fort Frances
31 Mars 2011 17:00AbitibiBowater‘s Fort Frances, Ontario mill is in the midst of a scheduled shutdown from March 28, until April 11. Another two week shut down has been scheduled for May 2 until May 16. ... Lire la suite...
CEP pleased with Northern Pulp's acquisition by Paper Excellence
30 Mars 2011 15:00The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union is pleased that Paper Excellence will be purchasing the Northern Pulp and Northern Timber pulp and paper mills at Abercrombie Point, Nova Scotia. “The ... Lire la suite...
Paper Excellence to acquire Northern Pulp in Nova Scotia
30 Mars 2011 11:00Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Corp of Vancouver, B.C. has reached an agreement to acquire Northern Resources, the parent company of Northern Pulp Nova Scotia and Northern Timber, Abercrombie Point, ... Lire la suite...
Tembec closes sale of hydro-electric generating assets located in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario
29 Mars 2011 14:00Tembec has closed the sale of its hydro-electric generating assets located in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario, to Gemini-SRF Power Corporation. Total consideration for the hydro assets, which have a capacity ... Lire la suite...
Ladysmith and Cowichan Bay sawmills stay closed for another week
29 Mars 2011 11:00Western Forest Products sawmills in Ladysmith and Cowichan Bay will stay closed another week due to low log inventories. The company’s Alberni Pacific Division in Port Alberni was able ... Lire la suite...
International Paper agrees to purchase shares of Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills of India
29 Mars 2011 08:00International Paper has entered an agreement to purchase 53.5 percent of the outstanding shares of Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Limited (APPM) of India for approximately US$257 million in cash. In addition, ... Lire la suite...
New research helps night-shift workers stay alert and productive
29 Mars 2011 08:00Marc Hébert, an associate professor in ophthalmology at Université Laval, is an internationally renowned expert in depression-fighting light therapy and biological rhythms. Hébert has spent most of the ... Lire la suite...
Wood First initatives – spreading from B.C. across the country
28 Mars 2011 10:00The Wood First initiative started in British Columbia. Their provincial government passed the Wood First Act in 2009 that requires wood to be considered as the primary building material in all ... Lire la suite...
Interior forest workers vote to strike in British Columbia
26 Mars 2011 07:00Forest workers in the Interior of British Columbia have voted 95% in favour of a strike. 80% of workers voted, giving the United Steelworkers a strong mandate to press the Interior Forest ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek mill in Saint-Félicien, Quebec receives $6.1 million
25 Mars 2011 07:00Fibrek‘s mill in Saint-Félicien, Quebec will be receiving $6.1 million from the Federal Government under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. This funding will allow Fibrek to install ... Lire la suite...
Saskatchewan 2011 budget items
24 Mars 2011 06:00Saskatchewan has released their budget for 2011. Items of interest for the forest industry are: $57.5 million: wildfire management $2.2 million: insect and disease control program (fight against mountain pine beetle and spruce ... Lire la suite...
Tolko might combine log yards to re-open Creekside mill
23 Mars 2011 09:00The United Steelworkers Union and Tolko have reached an agreement on a “letter of understanding” to allow Tolko to improve their competitiveness by eliminating several positions in the company’s ... Lire la suite...
Reaction to the Federal Budget from the Forest Products Association of Canada
23 Mars 2011 08:00The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) welcomed the forest industry measures contained in yesterday’s Federal Budget which support the industry and the 240,000 Canadians it directly employs. “The measures ... Lire la suite...
Reaction to the Federal Budget from the CEP
23 Mars 2011 08:00“Today’s budget does nothing to repair Canada’s shattered economy or to help its victims rebuild their lives,” the president of one of Canada’s largest unions, the Communications, ... Lire la suite...
Log shortage halts work for many in British Columbia
22 Mars 2011 12:00Arnold Bercov, president of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 8, is very concerned that shipping raw logs out of British Columbia is coming at a cost to many ... Lire la suite...
Domtar reaches settlement with Windsor, Quebec regarding tax evaluation
21 Mars 2011 21:00Domtar Corporation has reached a settlement in its dispute with the City of Windsor regarding the tax evaluation of Domtar’s Windsor mill. The agreement between the two parties is ... Lire la suite...
Corner Brook Pulp & Paper is considering alternative fuel sources
21 Mars 2011 09:00Kruger‘s Corner Brook Pulp and Paper is looking few new types of fuel to feed its boiler. As the price of oil climbs, the mill is considering peat pellets ... Lire la suite...
PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund reports annual net loss of $36,000
18 Mars 2011 08:00PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund has announced its fourth quarter, and annual results for the year ending December 31, 2010. For the year ended December 31, 2010, the Fund reported operating earnings of $2,811,000 and ... Lire la suite...
NorSask sawmill reopening, and hiring additional workers
17 Mars 2011 22:00The NorSask sawmill in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan is in the process of hiring for 15 – 20 positions when it re-starts next week. NorSask Forest Products stopped operating the mill in March, 2009 due ... Lire la suite...
Call for arbitration in Fort Frances, Ontario
17 Mars 2011 21:00From the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers: At the AbitibiBowater mill in Fort Frances Ontario, the collective bargaining process has moved from the bargaining table to Arbitration and the ... Lire la suite...
Four more companies accept wood supply offers in Ontario
17 Mars 2011 15:00Four more companies have accepted new wood supply offers from the province of Ontario. The four companies are: Cyprien Lachance in Val Côté Long Lake Forest Products in Longlac ... Lire la suite...
Strike vote upcoming for workers in Kamloops, Merritt, Kelowna, Okanagan, and Cranbrook
17 Mars 2011 08:00Over the next two weeks, about 3,000 forest workers in Kamloops, Merritt, Kelowna, Okanagan, and Cranbrook in British Columbia will be conducting a strike vote. The workers, members of United Steelworkers ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper trying to secure financing for cogen facility
16 Mars 2011 09:00St. Marys Paper, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, negotiated for over a year to receive a 10-year energy purchase agreement from the Ontario Power Authority for a 35 megawatt facility. Now, ... Lire la suite...
More about AbitibiBowater's additional 40 megawatts, including 56 new jobs in Thunder Bay
16 Mars 2011 08:00Yesterday we heard about a new agreement between the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) and AbitibiBowater that will see AbitibiBowater increase its electricity generation capacity by 40 megawatts, producing enough additional power ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater to increase electricity generation capacity by 40 megawatts
15 Mars 2011 13:00Through an agreement with the Ontario Power Authority (OPA), AbitibiBowater will increase its electricity generation capacity by 40 megawatts, producing enough additional power for 38,000 homes. The project is expected to be ... Lire la suite...
Barrett Lumber to sell 141 hectares to Nova Scotia
15 Mars 2011 10:00One of the co-owners of Barrett Lumber, David Barrett, said he has lost faith in the forest industry, and has decided to sell of 141 hectares of land to the province ... Lire la suite...
Fortress Paper posts quarterly net loss of $0.8 million
15 Mars 2011 08:00Fortress Specialty Cellulose has reported a net loss of $0.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2010 on sales of $83.5 million. For the fourth quarter of 2009 the company report adjusted net income ... Lire la suite...
Tolko's Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan mill receives $1.3 million
14 Mars 2011 22:00Tolko Industries Ltd.‘s Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan mill will be receiving $1.3 million under the Transformative Technologies Pilot Scale Demonstration Program to support innovation and help expand market opportunities. Other funding ... Lire la suite...
Smurfit-Stone's La Tuque mill receives $24 million
14 Mars 2011 22:00Smurfit-Stone will receive $24 million from the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Programto substantially improve the environmental performance of its mill in La Tuque, Quebec. “Our Government’s top priority ... Lire la suite...
Tembec's Témiscaming mill receives $975,000
14 Mars 2011 22:00Tembec will receive $975,000 for its mill in Témiscaming, Quebec under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program to substantially improve the environmental performance of the mill. Despite signs of ... Lire la suite...
Cascades' East Angus mill in Kingsey Falls, Quebec receives $3.1 million
14 Mars 2011 22:00Cascades‘ East Angus mill in Kingsey Falls, Quebec will receive $3.1 million under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program to build a modern pulp recycling facility, substantially improving the environmental ... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp's Northwood Pulp Mill in Prince George receives $4.6 million
14 Mars 2011 21:00A $2.5 million investment was announced today for Canfor Pulp’s Northwood Pulp Mill in Prince George, British Columbia through the federal government’s Transformative Technologies Pilot-Scale Demonstration Program – a program ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper's Power River mill receives $13.3 million
14 Mars 2011 21:00Catalyst Paper‘s Powell River mill has received $13.3 million under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program to substantially improve the environmental performance of the mill. “We appreciate the support ... Lire la suite...
Structurlam Products Ltd. receives $2.5 million
14 Mars 2011 21:00Structurlam Products Ltd., a structural wood product producer in British Columbia, will receive $2.5 million under the Transformative Technologies Pilot Scale Demonstration Program to support innovation and help expand market opportunities. ... Lire la suite...
Nanaimo Forest Products' Harmac Pacific Mill receives $9 million
14 Mars 2011 21:00Nanaimo Forest Products‘ Harmac Pacific Mill will receive $9 million under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program for three capital improvement projects to substantially improve the environmental performance of the ... Lire la suite...
AV Group receives $24 million for its Nackawic and Atholville facilities
14 Mars 2011 21:00AV Group will receive $24 million under the Transformative Technologies Pilot Scale Demonstration Program and the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (PPGTP). “This funding allows us to invest in ... Lire la suite...
Steve Thomson named B.C.'s Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
14 Mars 2011 19:00Christy Clark, the new Premier of British Columbia, appointed her new cabinet today. Clark has reduced the number of ministers from 23 down to 17. Steve Thomson has been appointed as Minister ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper's Port Alberni mill receives $4.7 million
14 Mars 2011 15:00Catalyst Paper‘s Port Alberni mill in British Columbia will be receiving $4.7 million under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program to substantially improve the environmental performance of the mill. ... Lire la suite...
Cascades' Norampac-Cabano mill receives $3 million
14 Mars 2011 15:00The Cascades' Norampac-Cabano mill in Cabano, Quebec will receive $3 million under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program to substantially improve the environmental performance of the mill. “The Norampac-Cabano ... Lire la suite...
Lumber stocks react to Japan's earthquake
14 Mars 2011 08:00There has been a lot of analysis in the last few days concerning the impact the massive earthquake, and tsunami in Japan will have on North American timber markets. On ... Lire la suite...
Ontario appoints Dr. Leonard Ritter to chair Agent Orange panel
11 Mars 2011 11:00Ontario has appointed Dr. Leonard Ritter of the University of Guelph as chair to a new Independent Fact-Finding Panel on the use of Agent Orange in Ontario during the 1950s, 60... Lire la suite...
Cascades sells Dopaco Inc. to pay down debt
11 Mars 2011 10:00Cascades is selling Dopaco Inc. to Reynolds Group Holdings Limited for a cash consideration of $400 million (US). Dopaco Inc. is a leading manufacturer of cups and folding cartons for the ... Lire la suite...
Another fire at Pacific BioEnergy in Prince George
10 Mars 2011 14:00There has been another fire at the Pacific BioEnergy wood pellet plant in Prince George, British Columbia. This morning’s fire was contained in a chip hopper. Crews from four ... Lire la suite...
Maritime Paper Products receives $2.1 million loan for new printing press
09 Mars 2011 19:00Maritime Paper Products Ltd. of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, will be receiving a $2.1 million loan from the Nova Scotia Government to help finance a new printing press. The Nova Scotia Business ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Babine Forest Products has shut down the mill
09 Mars 2011 17:00Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake, British Columbia is currently not operating due to a large fire at the mill last week. The fire damaged the main operating lines at ... Lire la suite...
Pacheedaht First Nation to receive forest revenue returns
09 Mars 2011 13:00Pacheedaht First Nation is the 14th First Nation to sign a new type of agreement that sees a percentage of forestry revenue returned directly to the community, announced Forests, Mines ... Lire la suite...
Many calls received by Agent Orange hotlines in Ontario
08 Mars 2011 08:00Here is an update on the calls received to Ontario’s Agent Orange hotlines from people who believe they were exposed during the 50′s, 60′s, and 70′s. Ontario Government’s ... Lire la suite...
Central Newfoundland residents want to be able to cut firewood on AbitibiBowater's former woodlands
07 Mars 2011 22:00Residents of central Newfoundland want firewood gathering restrictions eased on AbitibiBowater‘s former woodlands. Currently, firewood gathering is restricted to personal use only, and a permit is required that indicates ... Lire la suite...
Good news in Ignace, Ontario
07 Mars 2011 19:00AbitibiBowater and Raleigh Falls Timber have signed a new agreement that will create 23 news jobs for truck drivers and wood harvesters in Ignace, Ontario. The new positions will start in ... Lire la suite...
Paper Excellence purchases Prince Albert pulp mill
07 Mars 2011 14:00Domtar has sold its pulp mill in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to Paper Excellence. Paper Excellence will be converting the mill so it can produce dissolving pulp for the production of ... Lire la suite...
United Steelworkers can proceed with their case against Weyerhaeuser
05 Mars 2011 22:00The United Steelworkers have been granted approval from B.C. Provincial Court Judge Terese Alexander to proceed with their private action case against Weyerhaeuser over the death of sawmill worker ... Lire la suite...
B.C. may have trouble keeping up with the demand for their wood, due to low resources
05 Mars 2011 20:00British Columbia‘s forest sector has been cut back so severely in recent years that now that demand for their wood is surging, the companies are having a difficult time ... Lire la suite...
Muskoka Timber Mills will expand with its new wood allocation
05 Mars 2011 20:00Muskoka Timber Mills, of Bracebridge, Ontario, is one of the 11 companies who received a new wood allocation from the Ontario government as part of the recent provincial wood supply competition. ... Lire la suite...
Canada now has an official National Tree Day
04 Mars 2011 10:00This week our federal politicians passed a motion in the House of Commons to declare an annual National Tree Day. National Tree Day will occur on the Wednesday of National ... Lire la suite...
Cascades announces $30 million investment for its Candiac tissue paper mill in Quebec
04 Mars 2011 10:00Cascades Inc., a leader in the recovery of recyclable materials and the manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, announces an investment that could total more than $30 million and ... Lire la suite...
Agent Orange fall out continues in Ontario
03 Mars 2011 10:00In the days since the story hit the newswires that forest workers and junior rangers were possibly sprayed by Agent Orange in Northern Ontario, many more stories of Agent Orange ... Lire la suite...
Alberta's forest products shipments went up 25% from 2009 to 2010
02 Mars 2011 20:00Total shipments of lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper manufactured by Alberta Forest Products Association-member companies for 2010 were up substantially over the previous year. Shipments increased from approximately $1.9 billion to $2.3 billion. ... Lire la suite...
Tembec closing Huntsville, Ontario sawmill for 1 month
02 Mars 2011 19:00Tembec‘s hardwood sawmill in Huntsville, Ontario will be temporarily shut down for 1 month. 38 workers have been issued temporary layoff notices. The shut down will begin on March 5. Operations are ... Lire la suite...
More downtime at AbitibiBowater's Fort Frances mill
01 Mars 2011 17:00AbitibiBowater has announced a 2-week shut down in Fort Frances, Ontario beginning on March 28. More than 500 employees will be affected by the shutdown of both the paper and pulp production. ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper announces capital upgrade for Port Alberni mill
28 Février 2011 22:00Catalyst Paper has announced it will spend $4.7 million in Federal funding at its Port Alberni, British Columbia mill. The funding, coming entirely from the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper announces green-energy project for Powell River
28 Février 2011 20:00Catalyst Paper has announced it will use $13.3 million in Federal funding for a new green-energy project at its Powell River mill that will produce low-carbon electricity and be one of ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper announces capital upgrade for Port Albertni mill
28 Février 2011 20:00Catalyst Paper has announced it will spend $4.7 million in Federal funding at its Port Albertni, British Columbia mill. The funding, coming entirely from the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (... Lire la suite...
Is this the end of forestry in the Sioux Lookout area?
28 Février 2011 20:00Dennis Leney, mayor of Sioux Lookout, Ontario, is quite concerned that the 230 sawmill and forestry jobs in the Sioux Lookout area may be lost forever. Located in nearby Hudson, the ... Lire la suite...
Canfor announces new bark burner for Plateau Mill
28 Février 2011 09:00Canfor has announced it will be installing an new energy system at its Plateau Mill near Vanderhoof, British Columbia. Canfor plans to replace the mill’s beehive burner with a ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth Lumber records net income of $1.8 in 4th quarter
26 Février 2011 07:00In the fourth quarter of 2010, Ainsworth Lumber Co. recorded a net income of $1.8 million, compared to a net loss of $12.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. Over the full year ... Lire la suite...
Cascades reports net quarterly loss of $34 million
24 Février 2011 10:00Cascades Inc. has posted a quarterly net loss of $34 million in its fourth quarter of 2010 on sales of $991 million. Over the entire 2010 year, Cascades is reporting a net earning of $17 ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reports a net income of $4.0 million in fourth quarter
24 Février 2011 09:00Western Forest Products Inc. has reported a net income of $4.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, on sales of $172.6 million. This result can be compared to the net income reported ... Lire la suite...
Rick Doman still wants to reopen the Ear Falls sawmill – maybe Fall 2011?
23 Février 2011 20:00Rick Doman, President and Chief Executive Officer of EACOM Timber Corporation, still hopes to reopen the company’s sawmill in Ear Falls, Ontario. Doman said there are several issues holding ... Lire la suite...
Ontario proposes new Ontario Forest Tenure Modernization Act
23 Février 2011 19:00The proposed Ontario Forest Tenure Modernization Act was introduced today. If passed, the act would change the forest tenure system and allow for greater market forces in the allocation and ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber's 100 Mile House mill returns to 5 day operation
23 Février 2011 18:00West Fraser Timber‘s 100 Mile Lumber sawmill has moved to a 5 day per week operation schedule. For the last two years the sawmill and log yard have been operating on ... Lire la suite...
River West Forest Products opens Hanceville mill
23 Février 2011 08:00Four First Nation communities have reopened the Sigurdson Mill in the Chilcotin District of British Columbia. Now renamed River West Forest Products, the mill that has sat dormant for the ... Lire la suite...
Ledwidge Lumber borrows $1.5 million from Nova Scotia
22 Février 2011 15:00Ledwidge Lumber of Enfield, Nova Scotia is borrowing $1.5 million from the province’s Industrial Expansion Fund. The company will use the loan to maintain its wood supply during its slow ... Lire la suite...
Cascades sells its Norampac Avot-Vallée mill in France
22 Février 2011 10:00Cascades Inc.has announced that it has reached an agreement on February 18, 2011, with OpenGate Capital a private equity firm, for the sale of its Norampac Avot-Vallée mill. The transaction ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater reports operating profit of $19 million in latest quarter
21 Février 2011 15:00AbitibiBowater has posted its strongest quarterly profit figure since the company was formed 4 years ago, with an operating profit of $19 million (US). A strong contribution from market pulp helped AbitibiBowater ... Lire la suite...
Tembec is permanently closing its Tascheraeu sawmill in Quebec
21 Février 2011 10:00Tembec is permanently closing its Taschereau sawmill in Quebec. The Taschereau sawmill has been idle since October 2009. Tembec is saying the closure is necessitated by the reality that there is ... Lire la suite...
Annual cut in B.C's Mid Coast timber area reduced by 23%
19 Février 2011 11:00Effective immediately, the new allowable annual cut for the Mid Coast timber supply area in British Columbia will be decreased by 23% to 767,000 cubic metres. “This new cut level reflects ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber reports improved results in 2010 compared to 2009
19 Février 2011 11:00West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. has reported earnings after discontinued operations of $39 million or $0.89 per share on sales of $719 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. For the entire year (2010), West ... Lire la suite...
Timberwest announces improved fourth quarter results
18 Février 2011 23:00During 2010, TimberWest delivered four consecutive quarters of positive EBITDA. Total EBITDA for 2010 was $21.2 million. This is a $28.5 million improvement over the ($7.3) million of EBITDA generated in 2009. Driving these improved results ... Lire la suite...
B.C. Forest Safety Ombudsman to review silviculture camps
18 Février 2011 23:00A case involving what the provincial government called “unacceptable” treatment of 58 silvicultural workers will be examined by BC Forest Safety Ombudsman Roger Harris as part of a review of silviculture ... Lire la suite...
Cranbook planer mill staff will finally receive severance
18 Février 2011 13:00After 3 years of negotiation with the United Steelworkers, Tembec has finally agreed to pay severance to the 16 employees of the Cranbook planer mill in British Columbia. The Cranbook planer mill ... Lire la suite...
Mackenzie Pulpmill idled due to structural damage
18 Février 2011 09:00Production at Paper Excellence‘s Mackenzie Pulpmill in Mackenzie, British Columbia, has been idled due to structural damage at the mill. The problem started with a tube leak on a ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth completes acquisition of remaining 50% of Footner OSB mill in High Level, Alberta
17 Février 2011 20:00Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. announced today that it has completed the purchase of the remaining 50% of Footner Forest Products Ltd. and its oriented strand board (OSB) facility in High Level, ... Lire la suite...
Were Junior rangers sprayed with Agent Orange in Northern Ontario?
17 Février 2011 10:00The Toronto Star is reporting this morning that they have obtained records showing that forestry workers in Northern Ontario, many of them who were students working in Ontario’s Junior ... Lire la suite...
NewPage posts net quarterly loss of $240 million
17 Février 2011 10:00NewPage Corporation has posted a net loss of $240 million in their fourth quarter on net sales of $946 million. During the fourth quarter, NewPage announced plans to permanently close the Whiting, ... Lire la suite...
Patrick J. Moore will continue on as CEO at Smurfit-Stone
16 Février 2011 06:00Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. had previously announced that its CEO Patrick J. Moore would be retiring in March. Instead, Moore will now stay on until the acquisition of Smurfit-Stone by Rock-Tenn ... Lire la suite...
Full list of companies accepting new wood supply in Ontario
14 Février 2011 20:00Company Jobs Allocation(cubic metres per year) AbiBow Canada Inc., Thunder Bay will produce stud lumber at their sawmill. Creating 50Sustaining 160 221,000 conifer Capital Power Income L.P., Calstockwill use sawmill ... Lire la suite...
11 companies accept new wood supply offers in Ontario
14 Février 2011 19:00The province of Ontario has announced that 11 companies have taken up their new wood supply offers. The total wood supply offered to the 11 companies is 765,700 cubic metres per year. Ontario ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater pauses paper production in Fort Frances for 2 weeks
14 Février 2011 14:00Paper production is being temporarily halted by AbitibiBowater at its Fort Frances, Ontario mill. The shutdown will be 2 weeks long and will begin on Feb. 21. The paper machines will resume ... Lire la suite...
Canada complys with softwood lumber ruling, raises export charges
14 Février 2011 12:00Canada has decided to comply with the recent softwood lumber ruling and will be adding additional export charges of 0.1% and 2.6% for Ontario and Quebec, respectively. Last month, the London Court ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater is permanently closing its Coosa Pines, Alabama operation
14 Février 2011 10:00AbitibiBowater announced today that it will permanently close its paper machine at its Coosa Pines, Alabama operation and cease its pilot project to manufacture recycled lightweight and ultra lightweight packaging ... Lire la suite...
Canfor will proceed with capital investment projects at Vavenby, Polar, and Plateau
13 Février 2011 20:00Canfor Corporation has announced that, following a review with its Board of Directors, the company will be proceeding with capital improvement projects totaling $62 million at its Vavenby, Polar, and Plateau ... Lire la suite...
Canfor posts net quarterly income of $54.9 million
12 Février 2011 15:00Canfor Corp. has posted a net income of $54.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, compared to $33.5 million for the third quarter of 2010 and a net loss of $9.1 million for the ... Lire la suite...
Taiga Building Products reports net quarterly loss of $1.1 million
12 Février 2011 14:00Taiga Building Products Ltd. has posted its third quarter results, ending on December 31, 2010, that resulted in a net loss of $1.1 million on consolidated net sales of $198.4 million. These results can ... Lire la suite...
Canfor's President & CEO, James F. Shepard, will retire in May
12 Février 2011 13:00James F. Shepard, President and CEO of Canfor Corporation, has decided he will retire in May at Canfor’s next annual general meeting of shareholders. “Jim has decided to return ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater has sold its hydro assets in Ontario
11 Février 2011 18:00AbitibiBowater announced it has signed a binding agreement for the sale of its 75% indirect interest in ACH Limited Partnership (ACH LP) to a consortium formed by a major Canadian institutional ... Lire la suite...
Retired workers rally in Fort Frances against AbitibiBowater
10 Février 2011 20:00Retired union members held a rally this week in Fort Frances, Ontario to raise awareness of changes AbitibiBowater is making to their pensions, changes that they have not agreed to. ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products announces sale of non-core properties to TimberWest
09 Février 2011 22:00Western Forest Products has signed an agreement to sell certain non-core properties to TimberWest Forest Corp. for the purchase price of approximately $21.9 million. The sale includes properties located in the ... Lire la suite...
Interfor creates new Vice-President, Sales & Marketing position
09 Février 2011 22:00Steven Hofer has been appointed by Interfor‘s Board of Directors to the newly created position of Vice-President, Sales & Marketing. Interfor said today that Hofer’s appointment is a key ... Lire la suite...
Weyerhaeuser was right – it doesn't look like the Wawa OSB mill will reopen
09 Février 2011 21:00In December, Weyerhaeuser announced that it was unlikely its OSB mill in Wawa, Ontario would reopen. The Wawa OSB mill was closed by Weyerhaeuser at the end of 2007. At that ... Lire la suite...
Creditors approve Fraser Papers' amended restructuring agreement
08 Février 2011 15:00Creditors at a special meeting in Toronto today have approved Fraser Papers‘ amended restructuring agreement today by a vote of 94%. Last month, creditors voted against Fraser Papers restructuring proposal because ... Lire la suite...
Vavenby workers vote for pattern 4-year agreement
07 Février 2011 18:00One more piece has been put into place for Canfor‘s Vavenby mill in British Columbia to reopen this year. Unionized workers met over the weekend to discuss a number ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber Corp. appoints Marc Girard as Executive Vice-President and CFO
07 Février 2011 17:00EACOM Timber Corporation has appointed Marc Girard as its Executive Vice-President and CFO. Girard replaces Michael Liggett, the former CFO who will remain with the company on a consulting basis. ... Lire la suite...
Port Alice Neucel speciality cellulose mill sold to Chinese textile firm
05 Février 2011 08:00The Neucel Specialty Cellulose mill in Port Alice, British Columbia has been sold to Fulida Group Holdings Ltd. of China. Fulida will be taking over full ownership of the mill ... Lire la suite...
U.S. proposes new wood pallet treatment – could costs Canadian exporters millions
05 Février 2011 07:00The U.S. is proposing a new heat treatment for softwood packaging material that originates in Canada to kill any pests. In particular, the U.S. is concerned with the ... Lire la suite...
Domtar reports net earnings of $325 million in 4th quarter
04 Février 2011 09:00Domtar Corporation has posted net earnings of $325 million in their 4th quarter of 2010 compared to net earnings of $191 million in their 3rd quarter. Sales for the fourth quarter of 2010 amounted ... Lire la suite...
Join the Canadian Institute of Forestry
03 Février 2011 21:00The Canadian Institute of Forestry has launched a membership drive to reach out to potential new members. The Canadian Institute of Forestry is the national voice of forest practitioners. Formed ... Lire la suite...
Update on Bill C-501
03 Février 2011 20:00Press Release from Bruce Hyer, MP: Conservatives vetoed a motion in the House of Commons late Wednesday that would have allowed a compromise to be reached on Bill C-501, a ... Lire la suite...
Iroquois Falls mayor vows to stop dam sale
02 Février 2011 22:00Iroquois Falls mayor, Gilles Forget, has vowed to stop AbitibiBowater from selling off its dams. Forget met with AbitibiBowater’s chief executive Richard Garneau last week. Forget said he was ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Tolko in Kamloops
01 Février 2011 20:00Fire crews from Kamloops, B.C. spent several hours at the Tolko plywood mill near Heffley Creek yesterday fighting a stubborn fire. Operations Chief Andy Philpot says the blaze broke ... Lire la suite...
Protestors chained to trees near Ottawa
01 Février 2011 10:00Members of the Algonquin First Nations have chained themselves to trees this morning in the Beaver Pond Forest, near Ottawa, Ontario. Developers are scheduled to clear a 29 hectare section of ... Lire la suite...
Atikokan Renewable Fuels lands Ontario wood supply offer
31 Janvier 2011 21:00Atikokan Renewable Fuels has accepted one of Ontario‘s first new wood supply offers. The offer is for 179,000 cubic metres/year of poplar and birch fibre. This is in addition ... Lire la suite...
Paper Packaging Canada's new board of directors
31 Janvier 2011 20:00Paper Packaging Canada is a national association that brings together the major players in the Canadian paper packaging industry. The organization has recently appointed a new Board of Directors: Chairman – ... Lire la suite...
Smurfit-Stone executives rake in millions
30 Janvier 2011 19:00The executives of Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. will rake in millions when the company is sold to RockTenn Co. RockTenn is one of North America’s leading manufacturers of paperboard, containerboard ... Lire la suite...
Norbord reports loss of $2 million in latest quarter, but positive results for 2010
28 Janvier 2011 13:00Norbord Inc. has reported a net loss of $2 million in its fourth quarter, with earnings of $17 million for its entire operating year. “Our 2010 results exceeded our expectations,” said Barrie Shineton, ... Lire la suite...
Alberta Newsprint Company mill receives $1.05 million
27 Janvier 2011 20:00The Honourable Rob Merrifield, Minister of State (Transport) was in Whitecourt, Alberta today to announce a $1.05 million investment at the Alberta Newsprint Company mill. The mill will receive funding under ... Lire la suite...
Tembec posts quarterly net loss of $12 million
27 Janvier 2011 11:00Tembec has posted a net loss in its first quarter, ending December 25, 2010, on consolidated sales of $422 million. This loss can be compared to a net loss of $9 million in the ... Lire la suite...
Notices on their way to Ontario's wood supply applicants
26 Janvier 2011 22:00Ontario has chosen the winners of its wood supply competition and notices have gone out to the applicants. The goal of Ontario’s wood supply competition was to attract new ... Lire la suite...
John Valley, Exective Vice-President at Tembec, announces retirement
26 Janvier 2011 19:00John Valley, Executive Vice President of Tembec‘s Business Development and Corporate Affairs, will be retiring from the company effective January 31, 2011. An industry veteran, Mr. Valley joined Tembec in late 2005 ... Lire la suite...
Liquidation sale of Elk Falls paper and kraft mill
25 Janvier 2011 18:00Catalyst Paper has listed the entire Elk Falls paper mill and kraft mill in Campbell River, British Columbia on Maynards Industries auction site for liquidation. Along with the Elk Falls ... Lire la suite...
Kimberly-Clark plans to get out of the pulp business
25 Janvier 2011 10:00Kimberly-Clark Corporation has posted a fourth quarter net income of $520 million on sales of $5.075 billion, compared to fourth quarter earnings of $522 million on sales of $4.982 billion in 2009. The company announced ... Lire la suite...
Forestry companies and environmental groups propose solutions to Ontario government that protect jobs and woodland caribou in northern Ontario
24 Janvier 2011 23:00The province of Ontario is proposing to protect woodland caribou habitat and protect economic growth in Northern Ontario. The environmentalists and forest companies who signed the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (... Lire la suite...
Smurfit-Stone posts quarterly net income of $49 million
24 Janvier 2011 22:00Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. has posted a net income of $49 million in its fourth quarter, ending December 31, 2010. Patrick J. Moore, Smurfit-Stone’s Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Fourth quarter performance was strong, ... Lire la suite...
New Squamish Terminals Ltd. servicing agreement
24 Janvier 2011 21:00A new servicing agreement is in place with Squamish Terminals Ltd., its pulp producing customers, and the railway. The deal will see the Canadian National Railway provide 7 day a week ... Lire la suite...
Many employees of Northern Hardwoods are owed around $20,000 each
24 Janvier 2011 20:00The employees of Buchanan Forest Products‘ Northern Hardwoods sawmill were called to a meeting of the company’s creditors today. Northern Hardwoods is one of Buchanan’s two sawmills under ... Lire la suite...
Federal government invests in sustainable forest management research in Quebec's Eastern Townships
24 Janvier 2011 13:00Natural Resources Canada Press Release: An agreement between Natural Resources Canada and the Fiducie de recherche sur la forêt des Cantons-de-l'Est will help expand our understanding of forest conservation, restoration ... Lire la suite...
Harmac workers still waiting for $6 million of unpaid vacation pay
24 Janvier 2011 10:00Workers at the Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, British Columbia are still waiting for approximately $6 million in vacation pay they were owed when the mill was bought by Nanaimo Forest ... Lire la suite...
More on today's softwood lumber ruling – Ontario's reaction
21 Janvier 2011 20:00The province of Ontario has released its reaction to today’s ruling: Ontario is pleased with an international tribunal’s decision to limit an additional export tax on Ontario softwood ... Lire la suite...
Corner Brook Pulp and Paper drops idea of burning tires
21 Janvier 2011 19:00Kruger‘s Corner Brook Pulp and Paper has dropped the idea of burning used tires for fuel. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has nearly two million used tires. Five ... Lire la suite...
Canada loses another round in the softwood lumber dispute
21 Janvier 2011 15:00The London Court of International Arbitration tribunal has ruled that Canada breached its obligations under the anti-circumvention provisions of the Softwood Lumber Agreement and determined compensatory export measures to remedy ... Lire la suite...
Munsee Delaware Nation secures funding for accredited forestry program
21 Janvier 2011 13:00The Munsee Delaware Nation is pleased to announce a major step forward in its bid to establish an accredited First Nations Forestry Training Program after receiving start-up funding from the ... Lire la suite...
Northern Pulp receives $28.1 million
20 Janvier 2011 18:00Northern Pulp will be receiving $28.1 million through the federal government’s Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. Peter MacKay, MP for Central Nova, made the announcement today at Northern Pulp. ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia announces a federal/provincial $1.2 million program to boost First Nations forestry
20 Janvier 2011 09:00$1.2 million in federal-provincial funding for the First Nations Forest Sector Technical Support Program will help First Nations with economic development in the forest and wood products industries, announced Minister of ... Lire la suite...
North American log and lumber exports to China up over 150% in 2010
20 Janvier 2011 09:00China has come to the rescue for many sawmills and timberland owners in the US and Canada the past year. The value of softwood logs and lumber shipped from North ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia Lumber Trade Council responds to U.S. Arbitration Filing
19 Janvier 2011 09:00The British Columbia Lumber Trade Council (BCLTC) has responded to a request by the Office of the United States Trade Representative to seek arbitration under the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) ... Lire la suite...
U.S. initiates arbitration against Canada under the Softwood Lumber Act
18 Janvier 2011 15:00The United States has decided to initiate arbitration against Canada under the Softwood Lumber Agreement to address timber pricing practices in the British Columbia (BC) Interior. The U.S. feels ... Lire la suite...
Coastal loggers get their chance to quiz their B.C. Liberal candidates
18 Janvier 2011 10:00Members of the Truck Loggers’ Association (TLA), made up of independent logging contractors on British Columbia’s coast, will be gathering in Victoria tomorrow for their 68th annual convention. The ... Lire la suite...
Thunder Bay might buy two of Buchanan's waterfront mill properties
18 Janvier 2011 08:00The new mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario – Keith Hobbs – wants the city to consider purchasing two waterfront properties owned by Buchanan Forest Products. With Great West Timber bankrupt, and Northern ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater names new executive team
17 Janvier 2011 09:00AbitibiBowater today announced the selection of a new Executive Team, reporting directly to Richard Garneau, President and Chief Executive Officer. This leadership transition includes a number of senior management changes, ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater plans to continue cost-cutting at its mills
14 Janvier 2011 22:00AbitibiBowater‘s new CEO Richard Garneau said the company needs to continue cutting expenses at its mills. In addition to labour expenses, he would like to see reduced fibre costs. ... Lire la suite...
Two of Buchanan's sawmills in receivership, two others placed with a bankruptcy trustee
14 Janvier 2011 20:00Two of Buchanan Forest Products‘ idled sawmills are now in receivership: Atikokan Forest Products (Atikokan) Northern Sawmills (Thunder Bay) Two others have been placed under a bankruptcy trustee: Northern Hardwoods (... Lire la suite...
Four of Buchanan's sawmills in receivership
14 Janvier 2011 10:00Four of Buchanan Forest Products‘ idled sawmills are now in receivership: Atikokan Forest Products (Atikokan) Northern Sawmills (Thunder Bay) Northern Hardwoods (Thunder Bay) Great West Timber (Thunder Bay) On January 4, 2010, ... Lire la suite...
Ontario government introduces changes to forest tenure system
13 Janvier 2011 15:00The Ontario government is introducing enabling legislation to modernize its forest tenure and Crown timber pricing system to create new jobs and attract investment, while ensuring Crown forests continue to ... Lire la suite...
Two of Buchanan's sawmills in receivership
13 Janvier 2011 08:00Two of Buchanan Forest Products‘ idled sawmills are now in receivership: Atikokan Forest Products Northern Sawmills Inc. On January 4, 2010, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. as receiver ... Lire la suite...
Canfor's Clear Lake lumber mill closes
12 Janvier 2011 23:00Workers at Canfor‘s Clear Lake lumber operation in Prince George, British Columbia sent the last board ever through the planer this afternoon. Today marked the last day of operations ... Lire la suite...
Ontario launches new Industrial Conservation Initiative
12 Janvier 2011 23:00Ontario‘s recently released Energy Plan aims to help Northern Ontario industries stay competitive with new programs that lower electricity costs. Starting this year, the new Industrial Conservation Initiative is ... Lire la suite...
Tembec announces upgrade for Matane, Quebec mill
11 Janvier 2011 10:00Tembec has announced a capital investment totalling $25.7 million for its high-yield pulp mill located in Matane, Quebec. The investment will result in “energy, environmental and economic benefits”. Funding will come ... Lire la suite...
Union votes ‘no' to Fraser Papers' restructuring plan
10 Janvier 2011 15:00The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) and other major creditors of Fraser Papers today voted down the proposed Plan of Arrangements to complete the CCAA restructuring of the company. ... Lire la suite...
Tolko decides to permanently close Kelowna veneer operation
09 Janvier 2011 14:00Tolko Industries Ltd. has decided to make the closure of its veneer operation in Kelowna, British Columbia a permanent closure. The 21 remaining workers of the veneer plant were laid off ... Lire la suite...
Smurfit-Stone Expands Chain-of-Custody Certification to Entire Mill System
08 Janvier 2011 10:00Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation has announced that all of its U.S. paper mills have been recommended for chain-of-custody certification to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), Programme for the Endorsement of ... Lire la suite...
Midway Lumber Mills employees ratify new contract
07 Janvier 2011 22:00The workers of Midway Lumber Mills in Thessalon, Ontario will be back to work on Monday. Today the 64 members of the United Steelworkers Local 9260 ratified their new agreement by a 72% ... Lire la suite...
U.S. considering a levy on each Christmas tree sold, including those imported from Canada
07 Janvier 2011 21:00The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering placing a levy on each Christmas trees sold in the United States, whether they were grown in the U.S. or whether ... Lire la suite...
Cariboo's pulp mill receives $41.5 million
06 Janvier 2011 21:00The Cariboo pulp mill in Quesnel, British Columbia will receive an investment of $41.5 million under the federal government’s Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister ... Lire la suite...
Alberta Pacific Forest Industries (Alpac) receives $62.9 million
06 Janvier 2011 21:00Brian Jean, Member of Parliament for Fort McMurray–Athabasca, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, announced today that Alberta Pacific Forest Industries (Alpac) will be ... Lire la suite...
Irving Paper receives $10.4 million
06 Janvier 2011 14:00Minister of Natural Resources Christian Paradis announced today that Irving Paper will receive $10.4 million under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. Irving Paper will use the investment to upgrade ... Lire la suite...
Twin Rivers Paper Company receives $21 million
06 Janvier 2011 14:00The Twin Rivers Paper Company in Edmundston, New Brunwick, received $21 million today under the Canadian Government’s Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. The mill plans to use the investment ... Lire la suite...
Explosion and fire at Tolko's Soda Creek mill
06 Janvier 2011 14:00An explosion caused a fire at Tolko‘s Soda Creek mill in Williams Lake, British Columbia on Monday afternoon. The explosion was a dust explosion caused by dust in one ... Lire la suite...
Domtar receives $24.8 million
06 Janvier 2011 13:00Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Windsor, Quebec today to announce an investment of $24.8 million for Domtar under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. Domtar received $143.5 million under this ... Lire la suite...
Strike continues as Midway Lumber Mills in Thessalon, Ontario
06 Janvier 2011 10:00The 64 workers of Midway Lumber Mills in Thessalon, Ontario are still out on strike. The workers walked off the job on December 4th, resulting in a shut down of the ... Lire la suite...
Cause of explosion at Pacific BioEnergy Pellet Plant determined
06 Janvier 2011 10:00The cause of the explosion and resulting fire at the Pacific BioEnergy Pellet Plant in Prince George, British Columbia on December 17, 2010 was been determined. The blast was ignited by sparks ... Lire la suite...
Roadside wood theft is a problem in the Hearst, Ontario area
06 Janvier 2011 08:00Forest contractors are facing an increasing problem of roadside woodpile theft in the Hearst, Ontario area. It seems that people are stealing wood from log piles near roadways, likely for ... Lire la suite...
India's door is now open to B.C.'s lumber
05 Janvier 2011 18:00Mike de Jong, a B.C. Liberal leader candidate, spoke at Carrier Lumber in Prince George today about lumber exports to India. Until recently, lumber exports from British Columbia to ... Lire la suite...
Alberta sees signs that it is winning the war against the mountain pine beetles
05 Janvier 2011 15:00Alberta is seeing signs that it is winning the war against the mountain pine beetles, thanks to: the weather wisdom gained from B.C.’s mountain pine beetle fight an ... Lire la suite...
Alberta's forest industry launches WorkWild to raise awareness of forestry careers
05 Janvier 2011 11:00Alberta’s forest industry has launched WorkWild, the most comprehensive forestry career awareness program in Canada. Developed by the Alberta Forest Products Association and industry partners, the program targets youth ... Lire la suite...
Salvage operation on-going in Red Rock, Ontario
03 Janvier 2011 08:00The owner of the idled linerboard mill in Red Rock, Ontario is salvaging equipment from the mill while trying to attract a potential co-gen operator. The mill had two paper ... Lire la suite...
Nashwaak Valley Wood Energy to start second shift at pellet plant
29 Décembre 2010 23:00Nashwaak Valley Wood Energy Inc. will be adding a second shift to its wood pellet plant near Fredericton, New Brunswick. The company is co-owned by 125 local shareholders – most of whom ... Lire la suite...
New Brunswick's plan to strengthen & renew their forest industry
27 Décembre 2010 10:00The provincial government of New Brunswick will be taking a series of actions to strengthen and renew the province’s forest industry. An action plan has been drafted based on ... Lire la suite...
So how much does the CEO of Tembec make?
24 Décembre 2010 20:00In the fiscal year of 2009, Tembec froze all salaries, and cut executive bonuses as part of the company’s move to cut expenses. Tembec’s executives had their bonuses reinstated ... Lire la suite...
Weyerhaeuser thinks re-opening Wawa's OSB mill is unlikely
23 Décembre 2010 11:00Weyerhaeuser has reviewed its Wood Products system capacity, and as a result, the company has determined that it is unlikely that its following mills will re-open: Wawa, Ontario OSB mill ... Lire la suite...
Frustration with Ontario's wood supply competition
21 Décembre 2010 21:00When the province of Ontario announced a plan in November 2009 to free up 11 million cubic metres of unused wood fibre in the province through a wood supply competition, over 100 value-added ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber approves $230 million capital spending plan for 2011
21 Décembre 2010 20:00West Fraser Timber as recently approved a $230 million capital program for 2011, with most of the money being aimed towards its solid wood operations. Additionally, West Fraser plans to spend $88.5 million ... Lire la suite...
Workers at Harmac pulp mill grumbling about their Christmas turkey bonus
21 Décembre 2010 20:00Some workers at Nanaimo Forest Products‘ Harmac pulp mill are grumbling about their Christmas bonus this year. While the workers are each receiving a turkey for Christmas, there are rampant ... Lire la suite...
PRT announces intention to convert to a corporation
21 Décembre 2010 19:00PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund announced today that it intends to ask its Unitholders to approve the conversion of the Fund to a corporation at its annual and special meeting ... Lire la suite...
Weyerhaeuser's Grande Prairie mill receives over $32 million
21 Décembre 2010 08:00Weyerhaeuser‘s Grande Prairie mill in Alberta will receive over $32 million from the federal Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. Weyerhaeuser plans to use the investment towards a new turbine ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth enters into an agreement to acquire the remaining 50% interest of Footner OSB mill in High Level, Alberta
21 Décembre 2010 08:00Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Grant Forest Products Inc. to indirectly acquire the remaining 50% interest in Footner Forest Products Inc. and ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater resumes normal trading today
20 Décembre 2010 13:00Now that AbitibiBowater has exited its credit protection period, the company’s new shares are available today for normal trading on the TSX under symbol ABH. Paul Quinn of RBC ... Lire la suite...
Coast Tsimshian Resources hands out dividend cheques
20 Décembre 2010 13:00Coast Tsimshian Resources Limited Partnership is a forest company located in northwestern British Columbia, and is owned by Lax Kw'alaams First Nation. Six years ago, Coast Tsimshian Resources obtained timber ... Lire la suite...
Explosion at Pacific BioEnergy's pellet plant in Prince George, B.C.
19 Décembre 2010 19:00On Friday night an explosion blasted the Pacific BioEnergy wood pellet plant in Prince George, British Columbia. The blast created numerous spot fires that were fought by 17 firefighters from 3 local ... Lire la suite...
Four senior AbitibiBowater executives split nearly $4 million
19 Décembre 2010 13:00So by now you’ve read what David Paterson and Richard Garneau are due to receive by their employer, AbitibiBowater (if not, read this). But what about the rest of ... Lire la suite...
Our Arctic was once forested
18 Décembre 2010 21:00While climate change researchers are worried that our Arctic may be warming, new evidence has shown that it was once much warmer, and was even forested. Researchers have found a ... Lire la suite...
Boniferro Mill Works employees have new contract
17 Décembre 2010 13:00Employees of Boniferro Mill Works in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario have a new five year agreement. The new five year deal offers workers improved wages,work benefits and pension provisions. ... Lire la suite...
Sheraton Holdings Ltd. sawmill closes in B.C.
17 Décembre 2010 12:00The board of directors for Comfor Management Services Ltd. (CMSL) has announced the closure of Sheraton Holdings Ltd.'s sawmill, 24 km east of Burns Lake, British Columbia. Quinten Beach, president ... Lire la suite...
Tembec investing in its Tartas, France specialty dissolving pulp mill
17 Décembre 2010 08:00Tembec has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Tembec Tartas SAS will be making an investment in a green energy project at its specialty dissolving pulp mill located in Tartas, ... Lire la suite...
Richard Garneau's contract & David J. Paterson's severance
17 Décembre 2010 08:00AbitibiBowater recently announced that David J. Paterson will be resigning from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company, as well as the Board of Directors, effective ... Lire la suite...
Domtar sells ownership interest in EACOM Timber
17 Décembre 2010 00:00Domtar Corporation has announced that it has sold its 48,070,712 common shares of EACOM Timber Corporation by way of a block trade through Canaccord Genuity Corporation for CDN$0.51 per common share ... Lire la suite...
Canfor announces $145 million capital program
15 Décembre 2010 08:00Canfor Corporation has announced that, following a review with its Board of Directors, the company will be proceeding with a 2011 capital spending plan for its lumber business of $145 million, of ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers files appeal again pension decision
14 Décembre 2010 11:00Fraser Papers has filed an appeal against the pension decision of the Superintendent of Pensions that further cuts the pensions of former Fraser Papers employees in New Brunswick. When Fraser ... Lire la suite...
Aspen Planers workers accept final offer with hopes Savona will re-open
14 Décembre 2010 10:00Aspen Planers unionized workers have accepted the company’s latest contract offer with hopes the shuttered Savona plant will reopen. Details were not given, but the vote is rumoured to ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia announces cut level reduction for the Merritt Timber Supply Area
12 Décembre 2010 15:00British Columbia’s Chief Forester Jim Snetsinger has announced a reduction in the allowable annual cut for the Merritt Timber Supply Area (TSA). The annual allowable cut has been reduced ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper's Crofton pulp mill receives $2.5 million from the Government of Canada
11 Décembre 2010 22:00The Government of Canada has invested $2.5 million into Catalyst Paper‘s pulp mill in Crofton, British Columbia. The investment is part of the Government of Canada’s Transformative Technologies Pilot ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater announces leadership succession plan – Richard Garneau to succeed David J. Paterson as President and CEO
10 Décembre 2010 14:00Richard B. Evans, Chair of AbitibiBowater, today announced that David J. Paterson will step down as President and Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2011, having successfully led the company through the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Emerges from Creditor Protection
09 Décembre 2010 14:00AbitibiBowater is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed its reorganization and has emerged from creditor protection under the Companies’ Creditors Protection Act in Canada and chapter 11 of the ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia releases third State of the Forests Report
09 Décembre 2010 13:00The most intensive and thorough report ever produced on the state of British Columbia‘s forests suggests sound laws and policies, including public reporting by an independent Forest Practices Board, ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper expects to have its No. 5 paper machine up this week
08 Décembre 2010 19:00St. Marys Paper, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, expects to have its No. 5 paper machine back in operation this week. President of the company, Gord Acton, said, “We’re grinding ... Lire la suite...
NewPage is closing its mill in Whiting, Wisconsin
08 Décembre 2010 11:00NewPage Corporation plans to close its Whiting, Wisconsin mill at the end of February 2011. The Whiting mill currently operates two paper machines, which produce approximately 250,000 tons annually of coated paper ... Lire la suite...
Springer Creek Forest Products schedules 3 weeks of downtime
08 Décembre 2010 09:00Slocan’s Springer Creek Forest Products has scheduled 3 weeks of downtime this Christmas. The mill usually takes downtime over Christmas, but this year it will longer. The mill’s general ... Lire la suite...
Northern Pulp loses 100 tonnes of bark to spontaneous combustion
07 Décembre 2010 21:00The high winds in Nova Scotia overnight on Sunday stirred up a fire in Northern Pulp‘s bark pile. The bark pile is located at E.R. Langille yard in ... Lire la suite...
Creation of the Northern Bioenergy Partnership
07 Décembre 2010 20:00The Northern Bioenergy Partnership has been created by the B.C. Bioenergy Network, Omineca Beetle Action Coalition, and local bioenergy companies. The business plan for the partnership was developed by ... Lire la suite...
Ontario Premier asked to save Fryer Forest Products jobs
07 Décembre 2010 20:00France Gélinas, Ontario MPP for the Nickel Belt riding, implored Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario government to immediately step in to help save 70 forestry jobs in the French ... Lire la suite...
True North Plywood shuts down in Cochrane, ON
07 Décembre 2010 09:00True North Plywood has shut down in Cochrane, Ontario, indefinitely laying off its staff. The plant had directly employed 200 people, with 100 more in outsourcing. The town of Cochrane has lost 12% ... Lire la suite...
Conifex Timber Inc. appoints Kevin Horsnell as its Chief Operating Officer
06 Décembre 2010 20:00Conifex Timber Inc. has announced the appointment of Kevin Horsnell as its Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Horsnell is a Forestry Graduate from the University of British Columbia and obtained his ... Lire la suite...
Midway Lumber Mills Ltd. employees on strike in Thessalon, ON
06 Décembre 2010 18:0064 workers of Midway Lumber Mills Ltd. in Thessalon, Ontario walked off the job over the weekend. The workers, represented by the United Steelworkers, went on strike Saturday at midnight, citing ... Lire la suite...
Kruger Products completes implementation of innovative heat recovery technology in its Gatineau mill
03 Décembre 2010 15:00Kruger Products, Canada’s leading manufacturer of quality tissue products, today announced that an innovative heat recovery technology is now operational in its Gatineau mill, which manufactures a wide range ... Lire la suite...
Harry Freeman and Son Ltd. lumber mill receives $750,000
03 Décembre 2010 14:00The province of Nova Scotia has given a $750,000 loan to Harry Freeman and Son Ltd. for their lumber mill in Queens County through their Industrial Expansion Fund. Freeman Lumber has ... Lire la suite...
Massive forest fire in Israel
03 Décembre 2010 11:00A massive forest fire inferno started yesterday in northern Israel. 41 people have already been killed and more than 15,000 have left the area. Most of the dead are prison guards who ... Lire la suite...
Stolen Christmas trees
03 Décembre 2010 10:00About 100 Christmas trees were cut down and stolen from the Drysdale Christmas Tree farm north of Toronto last week. “They didn’t just wander in and take one or two,” ... Lire la suite...
Juniper, N.B. sawmill is permanently closing
02 Décembre 2010 14:00Twin Rivers Paper Company is permanently closing its sawmill in Juniper, New Brunswick. The sawmill has only operating intermittently over the last several years. It is not yet known where ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth's 100 Mile OSB plant operating again after explosion
02 Décembre 2010 10:00The Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd.‘s OSB plant in 100 Mile House, British Columbia is back up and operating, 16 days after an explosion shut down the mill. Back on November 10, an ... Lire la suite...
Howe Sound Pulp & Paper and Metso sign agreement for Bubbling Fluid Bed (BFB) boiler conversion
01 Décembre 2010 19:00Howe Sound Pulp & Paper Corporation of Port Mellon, British Columbia and Metso of Charlotte, North Carolina are pleased to announce an agreement reached in June 2010 to retrofit the existing Babcock ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers files restructuring plan
01 Décembre 2010 13:00Fraser Papers has filed a consolidated plan of compromise or arrangement with the Ontario Court overseeing its restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). These materials will also ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia announces new strategic directions for forest management
01 Décembre 2010 13:00The Nova Scotia government has announced 6 strategic directions for forestry in the province. The strategic policy directions are: Reduce the proportion of wood harvested by clear cutting to no more ... Lire la suite...
Plans to re-open Midway Mill in B.C.
01 Décembre 2010 10:00A letter of intent has been signed with a company who plans to reopen and operate the Midway Mill in British Columbia. At an information session held last week in ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's deal with Ontario and Quebec
30 Novembre 2010 19:00AbitibiBowater‘s subsidiaries, Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc. (“BCFPI”) and Abitibi−Consolidated Company of Canada (“ACCC”), have entered into an agreement with the provinces of Ontario and Quebec ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers Signs Agreement to Sell New Hampshire Paper Mill
30 Novembre 2010 13:00Fraser Papers Inc. announced today that it had been advised by M&M Consulting and Contracting (M&M) that M&M would not be completing the acquisition of the company’... Lire la suite...
More rumours from Prince Albert – now an Indian company may buy the mill
30 Novembre 2010 11:06The closed Prince Albert pulp mill in Saskatchewan is now rumoured to be of interest to a major company from India. Bill Boyd, Saskatchewan’s Energy Minister, said he met ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber records quarterly net loss of $10.5 million
30 Novembre 2010 11:06EACOM Timber Corporation has released its first quarter of results since acquiring Domtar‘s forest products business on June 30, 2010. During the quarter, low lumber prices and a strong Canadian dollar ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber Corporation Secures $50 Million Credit Facility From GE Capital
30 Novembre 2010 11:06EACOM Timber Corporation has entered into a three-year, $50 million revolving credit facility agreement with GE Capital in Canada. The facility will be used to fund working capital and general corporate ... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp Income Fund Announces $100 Million Green Transformation Program Project Approval
30 Novembre 2010 11:06Canfor Pulp Income Fund has announced that Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership, in which the Fund has a 49.8% ownership, has received approval from the Canadian federal government for funding of its $100 ... Lire la suite...
Lecours Lumber Co. Limited Fined $50,000 After Worker Injured
30 Novembre 2010 11:06Lecours Lumber Co. Limited, owner and operator of a sawmill in Calstock, Ontario was fined $50,000 on November 23, 2010, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused an ... Lire la suite...
Supreme Court of Canada agrees to hear Newfoundland and Labrador's appeal
30 Novembre 2010 11:06The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear Newfoundland and Labrador‘s appeal concerning the environmental cleanup ruling regarding former AbitibiBowater properties. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador originally ... Lire la suite...
Domtar IS in talks to sell the Prince Albert mill
30 Novembre 2010 11:06Domtar has confirmed that it IS in talks to sell its closed pulp mill in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, but it will not sell the mill to a company who wants ... Lire la suite...
B.C. Hydro supports upgrades at Harmac pulp mill
30 Novembre 2010 11:06Nanaimo Forest Product‘s Harmac pulp mill is receiving monetary support from B.C. Hydro to modernize the mill’s vacuum pump system – the vacuum pump that draws water out ... Lire la suite...
Government wants Eurocan's “black liquor” money back from West Fraser Timber
30 Novembre 2010 11:06The provincial government of British Columbia wants to get back the “black liquor” subsidy the federal government gave to West Fraser Timber for their Eurocan mill in Kitimat under the ... Lire la suite...
Layoffs at Groupe Savoie's Westville, Nova Scotia sawmill
30 Novembre 2010 11:06Groupe Savoie is laying off close to 40 workers at its Westville division sawmill in Nova Scotia, the largest sawmill in the province. The layoffs will begin on December 10th. Some ... Lire la suite...
Domtar squashes Prince Albert / Paper Excellence rumours
16 Novembre 2010 15:00There have been media reports today that the Communicat [...]... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater posts quarterly net loss of $829 million
16 Novembre 2010 15:00AbitibiBowater has released its quarterly financial sta [...]... Lire la suite...
100 Mile House Lumber mill votes in favour of contract.. but still has no contract
16 Novembre 2010 15:00Workers of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1-425, f [...]... Lire la suite...
Free Offer: New subscriptions available this month
16 Novembre 2010 15:00If you haven't already applied for your free subscripti [...]... Lire la suite...
Hinton Pulp receives $37.85 million
16 Novembre 2010 15:00West Fraser Timber Ltd.'s Hinton Pulp Mill in Alberta w [...]... Lire la suite...
Cascades posts net earnings of $30 million in its third quarter
16 Novembre 2010 15:00Cascades Inc. has reported a net income of $30 million [...]... Lire la suite...
Alberta's fight against the mountain pine beetle
16 Novembre 2010 15:00Alberta had a good year in its fight against the mounta [...]... Lire la suite...
Domtar Espanola receives $700,000
16 Novembre 2010 15:00Domtar will be receiving $700,000 in funding under the [...]... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper co-generation plant is a go
16 Novembre 2010 15:00St. Marys Paper and the province of Ontario have reache [...]... Lire la suite...
Taiga Building Products posts quarterly profit of $7.6 million
16 Novembre 2010 15:00Taiga Building Products Ltd., out of Burnaby, British C [...]... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth records net income of $10.1 million in third quarter
05 Novembre 2010 09:50Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has recorded a net income of $10.1 million in the third quarter of 2010, compared to net income of $22.3 million in the third quarter of 2009, despite an increase ... Lire la suite...
Fibrek reports net earnings of $3.8 million in third quarter
05 Novembre 2010 09:46Fibrek Inc. has reported a net earning of $3.8 million in its third quarter, compared to a net loss of $14.5 million in the third quarter of 2009. Consolidated sales reached $132.2 million, an ... Lire la suite...
PRT reports quarterly net loss of $798,000
04 Novembre 2010 18:38PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund has announced improved results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2010. The Fund reported a net loss for the nine months ending September 30, 2010 of $617,000 compared to ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers Signs Agreement to Sell New Hampshire Paper Mill
04 Novembre 2010 18:32Fraser Papers Inc. announced today that its subsidiary Fraser N.H. LLC, has reached an agreement to sell substantially all of its assets to MM Consulting and Contracting Company LLC. ... Lire la suite...
Conifex Timber restarts Mackenzie sawmill and appoints new COO
04 Novembre 2010 10:58Conifex Timber restarted its Site II sawmill in Mackenzie, British Columbia on a one-shift basis on November 1, 2010. The output from this site is estimated to be 110 million board feet on ... Lire la suite...
NewPage reports net loss of $67 million
04 Novembre 2010 08:43NewPage Corporation has reported a net loss of $67 million in its third quarter on sales of $943 million. These results can be compared to a net loss of $138 million in the ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper reports net earnings of $6 million
04 Novembre 2010 08:36Catalyst Paper has reported a net income of $6.0 million in its latest quarter on sales of $322.3 million. This result contrasts with a net loss of $368.4 million on sales of $299.4 million ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reports net income of $6.9 million
02 Novembre 2010 20:54Western Forest Products is reporting a net income of $6.9 million in its third quarter on sales of $175.5 million. For comparison, in the second quarter of 2010, the company reported a net ... Lire la suite...
Tolko Industries signs deals in China
02 Novembre 2010 09:28Tolko Industries has signed two major new deals during the joint trade mission to China this week. These new contracts will see more than 364 million board feet of lumber heading ... Lire la suite...
Learn about the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre
01 Novembre 2010 20:53Have you heard of the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre? The mission of the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre is to create innovative knowledge to expand the economic opportunities for the forest ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper appeals North Cowichan tax rate decision
01 Novembre 2010 18:57Catalyst Paper will be appealing its North Cowichan, B.C. industrial tax rate court decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. Last year Catalyst Paper launched lawsuits claiming the industrial ... Lire la suite...
China trade mission
01 Novembre 2010 18:45The Chief Executives of West Fraser Timber Co., Canfor Corp, Tolko Industries, International Forest Products, Conifex Timber left for a trade mission China on Thursday, along with other top industry ... Lire la suite...
Smurfit-Stone reports net quarterly income of $65 million
01 Novembre 2010 18:22Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation has reported net income of $65 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2010, compared with net income attributable to common stockholders of $1.41 billion, for the second quarter of 2010, ... Lire la suite...
Port Hawkesbury Biomass Co-Generation Project Proceeding
01 Novembre 2010 17:56Nova Scotia Power and NewPage Port Hawkesbury are proceeding with the 60-megawatt biomass co-generation facility recently approved by the Nova Scotia Utility & Review Board. The sale of certain mill assets ... Lire la suite...
Domtar reports net quarterly earnings of $191 million
30 Octobre 2010 17:55Domtar Corporation has reported net earnings of $191 million in its third quarter, compared to net earnings of $31 million for the second quarter of 2010 and net earnings of $183 million for the ... Lire la suite...
Canfor reports quarterly net income of $33.5 million
30 Octobre 2010 17:49Canfor Corporation has posted a net income of $33.5 million for its third quarter, compared to $40.4 million for the second quarter of 2010 and $4.1 million for the third quarter of 2009. Commenting on ... Lire la suite...
Ontario gives more money to St. Marys Paper
30 Octobre 2010 08:17The province of Ontario is giving St. Marys Paper in Sault Ste. Marie a $8.8 million loan. The mill plans to reopen this December after being closed since March. The mill ... Lire la suite...
Norbord posts net quarterly loss of $7 million
28 Octobre 2010 07:45Norbord Inc. has posted a net loss of $7 million in its third quarter. In comparison, Norbord recorded earnings of $37 million or $0.85 per share in the prior quarter and a loss ... Lire la suite...
Taiga makes list of B.C.'s fastest growing companies for 2010
27 Octobre 2010 21:56Taiga Building Products has been secured the fifth spot in British Columbia's list of fastest growing companies in 2010. “About seven years ago, we re-focused the company on Canada in terms ... Lire la suite...
President of Smurfit-Stone announces intention to resign
27 Octobre 2010 21:39Smurfit-Stone President and Chief Operating Officer Steven J. Klinger has announced his intent to resign from the company, effective December 31, 2010. Klinger will also resign from the company's Board of Directors. "... Lire la suite...
Acadian Timber posts net income of $1.5 million
27 Octobre 2010 20:38Acadian Timber Corporation has posted a net income of $1.5 million in its latest quarter. Last year, in the same quarter, the corporation posted a net loss of $200,000. "Demand for softwood ... Lire la suite...
2 weeks, $24 million being spent at Nanaimo's Harmac mill
27 Octobre 2010 07:29Within just two weeks, 800 contractors and workers are aiming to complete $24 million in updates at the Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The mill is down for its annual ... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp Income Fund posts strong third quarter results
26 Octobre 2010 07:32The Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership, 49% owned by the Canfor Pulp Income Fund, is reporting record sales of $247.9 million and net income of $54.5 million, or $0.76 per unit, for the quarter ended ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber posts profit of $45 million
25 Octobre 2010 21:01West Fraser Timber Co Ltd. has posted a profit of $45 million in its latest quarter on sales of $707 million. “Although we are experiencing a slow recovery in some of our ... Lire la suite...
Steelworkers private criminal prosecution to begin process hearing tomorrow
25 Octobre 2010 20:45On Tuesday a process hearing will begin in the United Steelworkers' (USW) private prosecution of Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. in connection with the death of millworker Lyle Hewer. Criminal lawyer Glen ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia creates new Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands
25 Octobre 2010 14:18British Columbia has merged departments to create the new Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands. This shuffle will see the Minister of Forests and Range, Pat Bell, lead the new ... Lire la suite...
U.S. International Trade Commission decides coated paper imports hurt domestic industry
22 Octobre 2010 18:24The United States International Trade Commission concluded today that their domestic industry is harmed by imports of coated free paper. As a result, antidumping and countervailing duties will be imposed ... Lire la suite...
Interfor posts net income of $1.5 million
22 Octobre 2010 10:02International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) has posted a net income of $1.5 million in their third quarter of 2010. Included in Interfor's accounts for the quarter was a gain of $4.8 million representing ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers posts net loss of $302.7 million
22 Octobre 2010 09:52Fraser Papers has posted a net loss of $302.7 million or $6.03 per share in its second quarter, compared to a loss of $8.0 million or $0.16 per share in the second quarter of 2009. ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's fate to be determined on November 5
20 Octobre 2010 16:34The United States Bankruptcy Court are set to hear oral arguments on AbitibiBowater's fate on November 5. In the last 6 weeks, the U.S. bankruptcy court has examined AbitibiBowater's restructuring plan, ... Lire la suite...
Two mills reopen in McBride, British Columbia
19 Octobre 2010 13:45Two mills have reopened today in McBride, British Columbia. The two mills are: National Choice Specialty Wood sawmill TRC Cedar mill The National Choice Specialty Wood sawmill will be exporting ... Lire la suite...
Christmas Tree Exporters fearing rising dollar
19 Octobre 2010 08:21Again this year, the Canadian dollar is rising near Christmas tree exporting season, and that is making our Christmas tree growers nervous. The CBC interviewed Gordon Young, a grower near ... Lire la suite...
Sakaw Askiy Management Inc. to assume rights to the Prince Albert FMA
16 Octobre 2010 09:04It was an historic day in Saskatchewan yesterday as a new company, Sakaw Askiy Management Inc., took over the Prince Albert Forest Management Agreement (FMA). Sakaw Askiy Management Inc. has ... Lire la suite...
Steelworkers, West Fraser Reach Tentative Deals in B.C.'s Northern Interior
16 Octobre 2010 08:54The United Steelworkers (USW) has concluded a series of tentative agreements with West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. in British Columbia's northern interior. Members of USW Locals 1-424 and 1-425 members ... Lire la suite...
Norampac Trenton receives $83,000
15 Octobre 2010 12:02Norampac Trenton, a division of Cascades Canada Inc., is receiving $83,000 from the Government of Canada's Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (PPGTP). The investment will be used to improve the ... Lire la suite...
Historic Sustainable Forest License signed in Kenora
15 Octobre 2010 09:13An historic, shareholder-managed sustainable forest license agreement was signed in Kenora, Ontario yesterday by Weyerhaeuser Canada president Anne Giardini, Ontario Forestry Minister Michael Gravelle, and Wabaseemoong (Whitedog) Independent Nations Chief ... Lire la suite...
Forest Products Association of Canada requests improved rail service
14 Octobre 2010 11:55The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is calling on the federal government to act quickly and decisively on the problem identified by the Rail Freight Service Review panel. Early ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia approves NewPage plan to burn trees for power
14 Octobre 2010 09:23The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has just announced that its approval of the NewPage Port Hawkesbury and Nova Scotia Power's proposal to burn trees to create power. Approval ... Lire la suite...
Port Alberni buys shares in its own community forest
13 Octobre 2010 22:02The City of Port Alberni, British Columbia, already owns the land of its new community forest. But that isn't stopping it from purchasing $125,000 worth of shares in the community forest. ... Lire la suite...
Wood biomass will heat 5 public buildings in PEI
13 Octobre 2010 16:22Prince Edward Island has approved two proposals that will see five public buildings in the province heated by wood biomass. Atlantic Bioheat will supply biomass-based heat to M. E. Callaghan ... Lire la suite...
Harmac pulp mill receives $4.31 million
13 Octobre 2010 16:04The Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, British Columbia, operated by Nanaimo Forest Products, will receive $4.31 million from the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (PPGTP) to improve the mill’s ... Lire la suite...
Gorman Brothers Lumber is expanding
13 Octobre 2010 15:59West Kelowna Council has approved the Gorman Brothers Lumber company plans for expansion of their planer mill. The expansion required a Development Variance Permit Application because the expansion will be ... Lire la suite...
Stephen Frasher resigns as Western Forest Products' President & CEO
13 Octobre 2010 08:22Stephen Frasher has resigned as President and CEO of Western Forest Products. The board of directors of Western has re-appointed Dominic Gammiero as CEO, in addition to his current role ... Lire la suite...
Tolko receives $2.26 million for The Pas
11 Octobre 2010 15:00Tolko Industries Ltd. has received $2.26 million from the federal government for its kraft paper mill in The Pas, Manitoba. The funding comes from the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (... Lire la suite...
U.S. is not happy with BC's underpriced lumber exports
09 Octobre 2010 16:58The United States has requested consultation with Canada under the Softwood Lumber Agreement. At issue is the apparent unfair under-pricing of timber harvested from public lands in the Interior region ... Lire la suite...
MPP wants Ontario to prevent sale of hydro dams in Iroquois Falls
07 Octobre 2010 20:47Gilles Bisson, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament for Timmins-James Bay, wants Ontario to block AbitibiBowater from selling the dams in Iroquois Falls. Bisson said the Iroquois Falls pulp and paper ... Lire la suite...
Corner Brook Pulp and Paper considering burning tires for energy
07 Octobre 2010 09:05Kruger's Corner Brook Pulp and Paper in Newfoundland is considering burning used tires as a fuel source. There are nearly two million used tires in the province of Newfoundland and ... Lire la suite...
Swedes look into black pellet production in B.C.
07 Octobre 2010 07:52Vattenfall, a company owned by the government of Sweden, is exploring the idea of turning wood from British Columbia's northwest, into pellets to burn in European power plants. Officials from ... Lire la suite...
All smiles in Terrace Bay
05 Octobre 2010 05:39There was an upbeat ceremony in Terrace Bay, Ontario yesterday to celebrate the restarting of the Terrace Bay Pulp mill. It was a long and emotional 19 months for the company ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater wants to sell former mill site in Kenora
04 Octobre 2010 20:45AbitibiBowater is seeking the court's approval to sell the site of the former pulp and paper mill in Kenora, Ontario. The property is 160 hectares in size. The mill was demolished ... Lire la suite...
Prince Albert pulp mill saved from wrecking ball
04 Octobre 2010 20:33The closed pulp mill in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan has won a reprieve from demolition. Saskatchewan's minister of Energy and Resources, Bill Boyd, said he is "very, very optimistic" that the ... Lire la suite...
RailAmerica to operate Ontario rail line for pulp and paper transport
04 Octobre 2010 20:12RailAmerica, Inc. today reported that its subsidiary RaiLink Canada Ltd. has entered into a long term operating agreement with the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway to operate a portion of the ... Lire la suite...
Papier Masson's benefits to be scrapped
02 Octobre 2010 17:37Papier Masson, a newsprint mill in Gatineau, is one of the four mills owned by the White Birch Paper company. The $243 million deal for the Black Diamond Capital Management group ... Lire la suite...
Results of Catalyst Paper's vote
02 Octobre 2010 13:59This week the unionized workers at Catalyst Paper, represented by the CEP, voted if they were willing to break their valid collective agreement to consider their employer's request for concessions. ... Lire la suite...
New tentative agreement for Georgia Pacific workers
01 Octobre 2010 13:27The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) has achieved the eastern pattern collective bargaining settlement for the pulp and paper sector for the Georgia Pacific mill in Niagara ... Lire la suite...
Domtar Announces Sale of its Woodland, Maine Market Pulp Mill
01 Octobre 2010 08:05Domtar Corporation has sold its Woodland hardwood market pulp mill, hydro electric assets and related assets, located in Baileyville, Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, to International Grand Investment Corporation (IGIC). ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper workers vote on breaking their collective agreement
01 Octobre 2010 07:47The CEP union members at Catalyst Paper voted yesterday on whether they should break their valid collective agreement. The workers' current contract expires in 2012 and applies to all five Catalyst ... Lire la suite...
White Birch Paper sale approved
01 Octobre 2010 07:38The courts have approved the White Birch Paper Company sale to the Black Diamond Capital Management group of funds. The company was sold at auction last week for $236 million. This ... Lire la suite...
Former St. Anne-Nackawic employees lose lawsuit against the CAW
29 Septembre 2010 18:55Eight former employees of the St. Anne-Nackawic pulp and paper mill in New Brunswick have lost their lawsuit against their union, the Canadian Autoworkers Union (CAW) as well as the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater wants to sell its fishing camp in Newfoundland and Labrador
28 Septembre 2010 17:17AbitibiBowater is seeking the court's permission to sell its fishing camp at Hunt River and Char Lake in Newfoundland and Labrador. A mining company, 1512513 Alberta Ltd., has agreed to purchase ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers cancels agreement to sell New Hampshire mill
28 Septembre 2010 16:20Fraser Papers Inc. has terminated the agreement to sell its paper mill in Gorham, New Hampshire because the purchaser could not secure sufficient financing to complete the transaction. Fraser Papers ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth downtime in 100 Mile House & Barwick
28 Septembre 2010 12:22Ainsworth Lumber Co. has announced scheduled downtime for two OSB mills: 100 Mile House, BC - October 18 - 31 Barwick, ON - October 19 - 26 The OSB mills will be down for equipment ... Lire la suite...
Waiting for wood allocation in Mattawa
28 Septembre 2010 07:47BioSila Mattawa Inc. purchased the former Tembec sawmill in Mattawa, Ontario for $1 from the Mattawa-Bonfield Economic Development Corp. BioSila has plans for a wood pellet plant for Mattawa that will ... Lire la suite...
Winner of White Birch Paper Company to be determined by a judge
28 Septembre 2010 06:08The winner of the White Birch Paper Company auction is not as clear as originally thought. Two groups of lenders participated in the auction last week. The two groups are: "... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater returns $133 million
27 Septembre 2010 12:04AbitibiBowater is thanking a "very favourable financing environment" for their ability to return $133 million to bondholders who had chipped in for AbitibiBowater's bankrupty-exit financing. The company has signed up an $850 ... Lire la suite...
White Birch Paper Company Announces Results of Auction
23 Septembre 2010 18:53White Birch Paper Company and its subsidiaries today announced that BD White Birch Investment, LLC (“BD White Birch”) has submitted the highest and best offer for the company’s operations ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater CCAA Plan of Reorganization Sanctioned by Quebec Superior Court
23 Septembre 2010 17:26The Quebec Superior Court sanctioned AbitibiBowater's plan of reorganization today. As previously announced, on September 14 and 21, 2010, respectively, AbitibiBowater received approvals for its plans of reorganization from affected creditors under the ... Lire la suite...
Canfor announces intentions to close Clear Lake Lumber in B.C.
23 Septembre 2010 07:40Canfor Corporation is permanently closing its Clear Lake Lumber operation near Prince George, British Columbia on January 13, 2011. Approximately 185 will be affected by the closure. 130 million board feet of production, annually, ... Lire la suite...
Taan Forest and B.C. Timber Sales aiming for FSC certification
22 Septembre 2010 12:23The Haida Nation's Taan Forest and BC Timber Sales jointly manage 270,000 hectares of working forests on Haida Gwaii (previously known as the Queen Charlotte Islands). Together, the two parties are ... Lire la suite...
Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) adds 3 new members to its board
22 Septembre 2010 08:32Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI) announced today that three new members were elected to its independent Board of Directors, supporting its balanced approach to responsible forest management. The new board ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia will have higher power bills if we don't burn trees?
22 Septembre 2010 07:41NewPage Port Hawkesbury and Nova Scotia Power continued to urge their biomass power generation project is approved immediately because it is in the "best interest" of electricity customers in Nova ... Lire la suite...
Asia Pulp & Paper disappointed in U.S. Coated Paper Duty decision
21 Septembre 2010 20:58Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), the leading exporter of coated paper from China and Indonesia, received today the lowest combined antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) margin among Chinese exporters, but ... Lire la suite...
U.S. announces duties on coated paper imports from China & Indonesia
21 Septembre 2010 17:34Appleton Coated LLC, NewPage Corporation, and Sappi Fine Paper North America – together with the United Steelworkers (USW) welcomed the Department of Commerce's announcement of final antidumping and countervailing duty margins ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater restructuring receives creditor approval under U.S. Bankruptcy Code
21 Septembre 2010 13:09Similar to a recent Canadian announcement on September 14th, AbitibiBowater has received the necessary creditor approval for its plan of reorganization under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, except ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Prices $850,000,000 Senior Secured Notes Offering
21 Septembre 2010 05:44AbitibiBowater Inc. announced today the pricing of $850 million of 10.25% senior secured notes due 2018 in a private placement under Rule 144A and Regulation S of the Securities Act of 1933. The closing ... Lire la suite...
White Birch Paper will be auctioned off on Tuesday
20 Septembre 2010 18:42White Birch Paper Company will be auctioned off tomorrow, Tuesday September 21. White Birch indicated that operations will continue as normal during the sale process and that all bids are for ... Lire la suite...
With new labour agreement, Conifex sawmill can reopen in Mackenzie, B.C.
20 Septembre 2010 07:28The Conifex owned sawmill in Mackenzie, British Columbia can resume operations now that a new labour agreement has been ratified with the United Steelworkers Local I-424. Details of the new ... Lire la suite...
Pinnacle Pellet breaks ground on new plant
19 Septembre 2010 17:28Pinnacle Pellet has officially broken ground on a new pellet plant to be built near Burns Lake, British Columbia. The plant will produce wood pellets from mountain pine beetle killed ... Lire la suite...
CEP's annual convention
17 Septembre 2010 10:34The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) will be holding their annual convention in Toronto, Ontario beginning on Sunday. About 1,500 members are expected to attend. President of the ... Lire la suite...
NewPage expects approval of its biomass power plant in Nova Scotia
17 Septembre 2010 08:29NewPage in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, is waiting for a decision from the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board over their desire to build a biomass-fueled power generation station. The ... Lire la suite...
Interfor looking into building a co-gen plant in Grand Forks, B.C.
17 Septembre 2010 08:02International Forest Products Ltd. (Interfor) is looking into overhauling its sawmill in Grand Forks, British Columbia, along with adding a co-generation station. “We are investigating the possibility of building a ... Lire la suite...
Pictou Landing First Nation files suit against Nova Scotia and Northern Pulp
17 Septembre 2010 07:50The Pictou Landing First Nation has filed suit against the provincial government of Nova Scotia, Northern Pulp, and all the former owners of the Northern Pulp mill over their lack ... Lire la suite...
Annonce de l'ouverture d'un nouveau bureau de courtage à Vancouver
17 Septembre 2010 00:00Montréal, 13 September 2010, Nous sommes fiers d'annoncer l'ouverture d'un nouveau bureau de courtage à Vancouver en Colombie-Britannique. Ce nouveau bureau positionne CWP d'un bout à l'autre du pays tout en ... Lire la suite...
B.C. office announcement
17 Septembre 2010 00:00Montreal, September 13th 2010 We are proud to announce the opening of a new trading office in Vancouver, British Columbia. This positions CWP throughout the country and adds to the strength ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp exits creditor protection
16 Septembre 2010 18:00Terrace Bay Pulp has been cleared for re-opening. The Buchanan Group has announced that late last night, it exited creditor protection. Now 340 people can be recalled to their jobs at ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber doubles its dividend and starts spending
15 Septembre 2010 21:24West Fraser Timber announced today that it was doubling its quarterly dividend to six cents a share today. The company has also initiated a $125 million capital spending program. "As a ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Norampac in Toronto
15 Septembre 2010 21:14There was a fire at Norampac's corrugated cardboard factory on Evans Avenue in Toronto, Ontario today. Described as a 1 alarm fire, the damage to the facility is estimated at $100,000 - $150,000. ... Lire la suite...
Biomass power plant proposed for Dryden
15 Septembre 2010 11:58Two Dryden business owners, Bryan Tardiff and Louie Ricci, are partnering with German owned Lambion Energy Solutions to propose a biomass driven power plant in Dryden, Ontario. The proposal would ... Lire la suite...
CEP's reaction to AbitibiBowater's restructuring approval
15 Septembre 2010 07:31Canada's largest forestry union welcomes today's announcement that AbitibiBowater creditors have approved the company's restructuring plan, paving its way out of bankruptcy protection. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers President Dave Coles ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Creditors Approve CCAA Plan of Reorganization
14 Septembre 2010 14:54AbitibiBowater is pleased to announce that the Company has received approval for its plan of reorganization from unsecured creditors under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) in Canada. The plan ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater and Quebec make deal to protect employee pensions
14 Septembre 2010 12:24Quebec has struck a deal with AbitibiBowater to protect employee pensions. Quebec's pension agency will allow AbitibiBowater to make reduced pension contributions while it continues its restructuring effort. Abitibibowater has ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reopens Ladysmith sawmill
14 Septembre 2010 11:59Western Forest Products reopened its Ladysmith sawmill on Monday after being idle for more than 2 years. The sawmill is now producing construction lumber for the Chinese market. 30 workers have been ... Lire la suite...
Kyahwood sawmill reopens after 2 years
14 Septembre 2010 11:52Kyahwood Forest Products reopened this week near Moricetown, British Columbia. The Kyahwood sawmill has been idle for almost two years. The closure was blamed on poor lumber conditions. The reopening ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Announces Private Offering of $750,000,000 of Senior Secured Notes
14 Septembre 2010 07:22AbitibiBowater Inc. announced today the commencement of a private offering of $750,000,000 of Senior Secured Notes due 2018. The Offering is a component of AbitibiBowater's previously announced plans of reorganization and emergence ... Lire la suite...
NDP question Canada's AbitibiBowater payout
11 Septembre 2010 18:51The New Democrats are calling for committee hearings into the Harper government's $130 million payout to AbitibiBowater after the company threatened a NAFTA challenge in its dispute with the province of ... Lire la suite...
Nine containerboard makers accused of price fixing
11 Septembre 2010 08:55Nine containerboard makers have been accused of conspiring to fix the price of materials used to make cardboard boxes. The companies named in the suit are: International Paper Packaging Corp. ... Lire la suite...
Domtar continues to dismantle the dormant Prince Albert pulp mill
11 Septembre 2010 08:36Domtar is continuing to dismantle its dormant pulp mill north of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Shell Iogen had been interested in the facility to make it the home of the first ... Lire la suite...
Big bonuses for AbitibiBowater executives
11 Septembre 2010 08:13AbitibiBowater is defending the $6 million in combined bonuses they are paying their executives while they work on restructuring the company. AbitibiBowater CEO David Paterson has pointed out that incentives are ... Lire la suite...
Tolko's curtailments to end on Monday
10 Septembre 2010 08:16Tolko Industries will be ending its production curtailments in Armstrong and Williams Lake, British Columbia on Monday. In Armstrong, operations will begin on Monday at the planer mill and log ... Lire la suite...
Harmac loses an investor
10 Septembre 2010 07:42Back in 2008, a four groups of investors formed Nanaimo Forest Products and purchased the Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, British Columbia when its previous owner, Pope & Talbot, went bankrupt and ... Lire la suite...
Howe Sound Pulp and Paper receives $36.7 million
08 Septembre 2010 19:18The Government of Canada is investing in the Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Limited Partnership to improve the company’s environmental performance and help to drive the evolution of Canada’... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia Power wants to keep its biomass analysis private
08 Septembre 2010 19:01Tomorrow, a hearing will reconvene in Nova Scotia over Nova Scotia Power's request to spend $208 million to build a wood burning power generating plant with NewPage Port Hawkesbury. This hearing ... Lire la suite...
BC Hydro supports Howe Sound Pulp and Paper's energy efficiency and clean power generation plans
08 Septembre 2010 18:44Howe Sound Pulp and Paper and BC Hydro have reached an agreement under BC Hydro's Integrated Power Offer that will not only reduce the mill's electricity consumption, but also enable ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Enligna Canada's pellet plant in Upper Musquodoboit
08 Septembre 2010 12:28There is currently a fire burning at Enligna Canada's wood pellet factory in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia. Two buildings are currently on fire. Ten fire trucks and firefighters from six ... Lire la suite...
Carrier Lumber workers win millions in severance
08 Septembre 2010 05:43When Carrier Lumber permanently closed its sawmill in Valemount, British Columbia in 2009, close to 200 people were out of work. Yesterday, British Columbia's Labour Relations Board has upheld a ruling that ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater forecasts big profits
07 Septembre 2010 19:13AbitibiBowater is forecasting big profits for its future. The company is projecting over $1.5 billion (U.S.) in net profits over the next four years. AbitibiBowater expects to overcome a projected ... Lire la suite...
Tembec permanently closes Pine Falls
02 Septembre 2010 19:38Tembec has announced the permanent closure of its newsprint mill located in Pine Falls, Manitoba. The mill had been indefinitely idled due to a labour dispute on September 1, 2009. After examining ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Announces New Board of Directors for Restructured Company
02 Septembre 2010 09:10AbitibiBowater announced today that nine individuals have been selected to serve, along with current Board Chairman Richard B. Evans and President and Chief Executive Officer David J. Paterson, on a ... Lire la suite...
Canfor workers head back to the bush
02 Septembre 2010 07:10Now that the extreme fire risk has eased, the Canfor workers and contractors that were pulled from the bush can now head back to work. Workers were pulled from the ... Lire la suite...
Tolko extends curtailments
01 Septembre 2010 18:04Tolko Industries Inc. is extending its curtailments at its Soda Creek and Armstrong stud operations in British Columbia. The curtailments will continue until September 6. After that time, a restart will ... Lire la suite...
NewPage elects Chan W. Galbato to Chairman of the Board
01 Septembre 2010 09:20NewPage Corporation has announced the election of Chan W. Galbato to the Board of Directors of NewPage and its affiliates as chairman of the Board, effective August 25, 2010. Mr. Galbato takes ... Lire la suite...
EACOM posts loss of $2.5 million in its latest quarter
31 Août 2010 07:57EACOM Timber Corporation has posted a loss of $2.5 million in its latest quarter, compared to a loss of $205,000 a year ago. (The quarter results do not include any operations of ... Lire la suite...
B.C's firefighting bill is up to $170 million
30 Août 2010 20:56The cost of fighting forest fires in British Columbia this year has topped $170 million. As of yesterday, the fires had burned 322,349 hectares in B.C. More than half of that ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers will be late in filing second quarter results
30 Août 2010 18:22Fraser Papers Inc.Fraser Papers Inc. announced today that the financial statements for the interim period ended July 3, 2010, including the related management discussion and analysis, and CEO and CFO certifications ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp hasn't reopened yet... but soon!
28 Août 2010 20:13Terrace Bay Pulp is still putting the pieces together so that they can except from creditor protection and restart their idled mill. Right now, the company is aiming to emerge ... Lire la suite...
Atikokan coal-fired power station converting to biomass
27 Août 2010 07:31The Atikokan, Ontario coal-fired power generation station has been given the go-ahead to convert to a biomass driven station. The province of Ontario has announced that the Ontario Power Authority ... Lire la suite...
Norampac expanding in St. Marys, Ontario
26 Août 2010 10:43Norampac is about to begin construction on a million dollar expansion at its corrugated packing plant in St. Marys, Ontario. Located near Stratford in Perth County, St. Marys town council ... Lire la suite...
Premier Danny Williams pleased with AbitibiBowater deal
26 Août 2010 10:36Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is pleased with the recently announced deal that will see Canada pay AbitibiBowater $130 million to settle the pending trade war over the province's action ... Lire la suite...
Update on Peace Valley OSB
26 Août 2010 09:27The fire at Peace Valley OSB in Fort St. John, British Columbia broke out in the blending area of the plant around 10pm on Monday night. Firefighters brought the fire ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater wins approval of court to borrow $1.35 billion
25 Août 2010 19:37AbitibiBowater won approval of a U.S. court today to borrow $1.35 billion to fund the company's exit from bankruptcy. The Judge gave permission to borrow the funds after no objection ... Lire la suite...
Auction of White Birch Paper postponed
25 Août 2010 09:40A creditor of the White Birch Paper company, has complained about the auction of White Birch Paper's assets. Service d'Impartition Industrial holds a $1.75 million construction lien on White Birch's FF ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Peace Valley OSB
25 Août 2010 09:27A massive fire at the Peace Valley OSB mill in Fort St. John, British Columbia kept firefighters busy throughout the night on Monday. Damage to the mill was extensive. There ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper wants more cash from Ontario
25 Août 2010 08:03St. Marys Paper in Sault Ste. Marie has submitted its latest restructuring plan to the Ontario government - a plan that includes a funding request in the tens of millions ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater is permanently closing Dolbeau and Gatineau
25 Août 2010 07:34AbitibiBowater is permanently closing its two idled paper mills in Quebec: Dolbeau, Quebec Gatineau, Quebec Dolbeau was idled in June 2009 putting 240 workers out of work. Gatineau was idled in April ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Announces Intention to Withdraw NAFTA Notice of Arbitration - Settlement Agreement Reached with the Government of Canada for C$130 Million
24 Août 2010 17:18AbitibiBowater today announced a formal settlement agreement with the Government of Canada with regards to its assets and rights in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, expropriated by the provincial government under ... Lire la suite...
Peter Brant sells his Picasso to try to save White Birch from bankruptcy
24 Août 2010 09:33Peter M. Brant, American businessman and owner of the White Birch Paper Company has sold a painting by Pablo Picasso reportedly in an effort to save his White Birch Paper ... Lire la suite...
State of Buchanan's sawmills in Northwestern Ontario
24 Août 2010 07:16With the Mackenzie Forest Products sawmill in Hudson, Ontario shutting down on Friday, that leaves all of Buchanan Forest Products sawmills in Northwestern Ontario sitting idle. Buchanan's sawmill operations in ... Lire la suite...
B.C. fires have burned more than 300,000 ha
23 Août 2010 20:57So far the forest fires in British Columbia have burned over 300,000 hectares of forest making this season the worst in at least 12 years. Despite the pall of smoke that has ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reaches agreement with the United Steelworkers
23 Août 2010 20:53Western Forest Products has reached a new 4 year labour agreement with the United Steelworkers Union. Approximately 2,400 Western and contractor employees are covered under this contract which will expire on June 15, 2014. "... Lire la suite...
Deal to buy Pine Falls paper mill is dead
23 Août 2010 18:23The group of employees that was interested in buying the idled Pine Falls, Manitoba paper mill, from Tembec, have decided not to proceed with an offer. The province of Manitoba ... Lire la suite...
Changes coming to Abzac in Fort Frances
23 Août 2010 10:16Sonoco Products Company has purchased the business of the Abzac Canada-Fort Frances Division tube and core plant in Fort Frances, Ontario. The plant produces paper cores for use in rolls ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia continues to burn. Smokes drifts as far as Ontario.
21 Août 2010 18:36Smoke from British Columbia's forest fires are choking out people all the way to Ontario. Health officials are urging anyone with respiratory problems to stay indoors. Even people without lung ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth has new collective agreement with 100 Mile House workers
21 Août 2010 07:27Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has reached a new 4 year labour agreement with the unionized workers at its mill in 100 Mile House, British Columbia. Members of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater upgrades LaTuque sawmill
21 Août 2010 07:21AbitibiBowater is investing $1.8 million into its La Tuque sawmill in Quebec to enhance the mill's production. La Tuque is roughly 240 kilometres north of Quebec City. AbitibiBowater said employee wage concessions ... Lire la suite...
Crown wood to support economic development in Miramichi region
20 Août 2010 08:51The New Brunswick provincial government will make available Crown wood to support three forestry operations in the Miramichi region. The provincial government’s plans entail: issuing a request for proposals (... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Paper hires Dennis Bunnell
20 Août 2010 07:33St. Marys Paper in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario has been idle since March. With hopes of restarting the mill, St. Marys Paper has hired Dennis Bunnell, as its new chair ... Lire la suite...
CEP members ratify agreement with Ainsworth in Barwick
20 Août 2010 07:15CEP Local 324-99 members have voted 87% in favour of accepting a new 4 year collective agreement with Ainsworth Engineered LP in Barwick, Ontario. “The Membership has successfully resisted concessions while still ... Lire la suite...
Mackenzie Forest Products closing near Sioux Lookout
19 Août 2010 20:11Mackenzie Forest Products is closing its sawmill near Sioux Lookout, Ontario next Friday, and plans to be completely shut down within a week. 65 employees will be out of work. Mill ... Lire la suite...
Canfor pulls workers out of the bush due to fire threat
19 Août 2010 08:24Canfor pulled its workers out of the bush yesterday near Vanderhoof and Houston, British Columbia due to the threat of wildfires. Yesterday's afternoon weather called for high winds and Canfor ... Lire la suite...
Strike averted at Ainsworth in Barwick
18 Août 2010 19:14A tentative agreement has been reached in Barwick, Ontario between the CEP and Ainsworth Engineered LP after 27 hours of non-stop bargaining. Stephen Boon, CEP National Representative in Dryden said, “all ... Lire la suite...
Newfoundland and Labrador appeal AbitibiBowater ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada
18 Août 2010 14:04The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is appealing a Quebec court ruling regarding the environmental mess AbitibiBowater left behind in Newfoundland. The province wants the Supreme Court of Canada to ... Lire la suite...
Tolko announces Soda Creek curtailment
18 Août 2010 07:47Tolko Industries Ltd. has announced a 2 week shutdown of its Soda Creek stud mill in Williams Lake, British Columbia. The shut down will start on August 23 and will affect 315 employees. ... Lire la suite...
Mackenzie pulp mill restarts
18 Août 2010 07:42Paper Excellence has restarted the Mackenzie pulp mill putting 270 people back to work in British Columbia. Paper Excellence, a Dutch company, is a subsidiary of the Asian conglomerate Sinar Mas. ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater posts a quarterly loss of $297 million
18 Août 2010 06:11AbitibiBowater has reported a net quarterly loss of $297 million (US) compared to $510 million in the same quarter a year ago. Revenues grew 14 per cent to US$1.18 billion from US$1.04 billion ... Lire la suite...
Tentative labour agreement - Conifer
17 Août 2010 18:14A tentative labour agreement has been reached between Conifer and the United Steelworkers in northern British Columbia. Conifer is the bargaining agent for several forestry companies including Tolko Industries, AbitibiBowater ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth strike postponed for 28 hours
13 Août 2010 15:04The workers at Ainsworth Engineered LP in Barwick, Ontario have decided to postpone their scheduled strike action for midnight on Sunday for up to 48 hours pending the outcome of renewed ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater considering selling Iroquois Falls power dams again
13 Août 2010 09:48AbitibiBowater has raised the idea of selling off the hydroelectric dams at its pulp and paper mill in Iroquois Falls, Ontario again. "If this goes through, I expect the Iroquois ... Lire la suite...
Northern Pulp has new holding company
09 Août 2010 13:17Blue Wolf Capital Management and Atlas Holdings, co-owners of Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation (“Northern Pulp”), announced today the establishment of a new holding company, Northern Resources Nova Scotia Corporation, ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater wants to borrow $1.35 billion to exit from bankruptcy protection
09 Août 2010 12:37AbitibiBowater is seeking approval to borrow $1.35 billion to exit from bankruptcy protection. However, AbitibiBowater wants the fees for borrowing the $1.35 billion kept confidential. The arranging banks are JPMorgan Chase, Barclays ... Lire la suite...
Gatineau convinces AbitibiBowater to rethink mill closure?
08 Août 2010 21:50AbitibiBowater has agreed to the City of Gatineau's proposal to conduct a $100,000 feasibility study of its Gatineau mill closure. AbitibiBowater closed the 80 year old mill in May and 300 jobs were ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth posts net loss of $17.3 million
08 Août 2010 10:20Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has posted a net quarterly loss of $17.3 million compared to a net income of $29.8 million in the second quarter of 2009. Ainsworth President and CEO Rick Huff ... Lire la suite...
PRT reports net earnings of $181K
07 Août 2010 18:39PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund (the "Fund") has announced results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2010. For the six month period ending June 30, 2010, the Fund reported net earnings of $181,000 ($0.02 per ... Lire la suite...
NewPage reports net quarterly loss of $174 million
05 Août 2010 12:54NewPage Corporation has reported a net quarterly loss of $174 million, compared to a net loss of $6 million a year ago. Net sales were $890 million in the second quarter of 2010 compared ... Lire la suite...
Superior Fine Papers vandalized
05 Août 2010 07:32Vandals have caused tens of thousands of dollars of damage at the idled Superior Fine Papers (formerly known as Thunder Bay Fine Papers). A security guard reported the break and ... Lire la suite...
USW struggling for a deal with Aspen Planers
04 Août 2010 10:32United Steelworkers Local I-417 is trying to negotiate a deal with Aspen Planers to get their workers back to work in Lillooet and Savona, British Columbia. The members of the ... Lire la suite...
Why is the B.C. budget so small for firefighting?
04 Août 2010 08:49Last year, the province of British Columbia budgeted $60 million for fighting forest fires, but ended up spending $400 million. This year, the province lowered its firefighting budget to $52 million, however it ... Lire la suite...
Miramichi woodlot owners want mill sale to be salvaged
04 Août 2010 07:38Woodlot owners in the Miramichi region of New Brunswick want the provincial government to step in to stop a mill sale deal from falling apart. For a year now, Weyerhaeuser ... Lire la suite...
Canfor shuts down Clear Lake lumber plant
04 Août 2010 07:22On August 12, Canfor is closing its Clear Lake Sawmill south of Prince George, British Columbia. 15 employees will be affected. Some of the employees will be moved over to the sawmill ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber posts quarterly profit of $63 million
03 Août 2010 20:18West Fraser Timber posted a profit of $63 million in its last quarter, compared to a loss of $39 million a year ago. Sales were up in all segments and came in ... Lire la suite...
Yukon recalls its fire crews from British Columbia
03 Août 2010 20:07The Yukon territory has recalled all their firefighters and air tankers from British Columbia where they were helping the province battle wildfires. Forest fire danger ratings in the Yukon have ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products posts net quarterly income of $9.5 million
03 Août 2010 19:58Western Forest Products Inc. has announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. The company reported EBITDA of $20.9 million for the second quarter of 2010 compared to EBITDA of $8.0 million in ... Lire la suite...
Smurfit-Stone posts second quarter results
03 Août 2010 19:16Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation has reported net income attributable to common stockholders of $1.41 billion for the second quarter of 2010, compared with a net loss of ($91) million in the first quarter of 2010, ... Lire la suite...
Driving through a forest fire
03 Août 2010 19:04Four Russian men volunteered to help their neighbours protect their homes from an approaching forest fire in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region. As this video shows, the men had a close ... Lire la suite...
Devastating forest fires in Russia made worse by new law
03 Août 2010 18:41Russia is currently experiencing large devastating forest fires. Now there is talk that Russia's fire situation has been made way worse due to a new law passed 4 years ago by ... Lire la suite...
Northern Pulp proceeds with plan to reduce odour
03 Août 2010 17:57Northern Pulp of Abercrombie Point, Nova Scotia, is proceeding with its plan to reduce its odour emissions. The detailed engineering phase of the project is set to move ahead in ... Lire la suite...
NewPage elects George F. Martin as their new President and CEO
03 Août 2010 14:34NewPage Corporation has announced the election of George F. Martin to the Board of Directors and as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. "George has 27 years of proven leadership ... Lire la suite...
Pilots of water bomber identified
02 Août 2010 19:22The pilots of the water bomber that crashed on Saturday have been identified. Pilot - Tim Whiting, 58, Langley, B.C. Co-Pilot - Brian Tilley, 36, Edmonton, Alberta Minister of Forests and ... Lire la suite...
Government of Canada Launches Investments in Forest Industry Transformation Program
02 Août 2010 18:44The Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) program was launched today by the Government of Canada. The $100-million program will help to expand opportunities for Canada’s forestry sector through ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater to solicit creditor approval for its plans of reorganization
02 Août 2010 14:56AbitibiBowater has announced that in connection with the company's ongoing creditor protection proceedings, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved on August 2, 2010 the company's solicitation materials ... Lire la suite...
Two water bomber pilots died in crash
02 Août 2010 07:24The two pilots that were flying the water bomber when it crashed south of Lytton, British Columbia on Saturday night were killed in the crash. The plane was badly damaged ... Lire la suite...
Water bomber crashes in B.C.
01 Août 2010 06:07A water bomber has crashed in B.C., south of Lytton, in the Fraser Canyon. The crash occurred last night, just before 9pm. The fate of the two crew members ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia is on fire
31 Juillet 2010 19:19Forest fires are a big concern this weekend in British Columbia. Just on Wednesday and Thursday, more than 240 fires ignited in the province. There is no end in sight to ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper makes changes to its board
31 Juillet 2010 19:05Catalyst Paper has announced several changes to its board of directors. Assuming the role of chairman is Benjamin Duster IV, former chairman of Algoma Steel. Mr. Duster joined the Catalyst ... Lire la suite...
Louisiana-Pacific posts quarterly profit of $22 million
31 Juillet 2010 07:43Louisiana-Pacific Corp. (LP) has posted a quarterly net income of $22 million in its second quarter, improving from its $29 million loss a year ago. The company posted net sales of $447 million ... Lire la suite...
Domtar posts net quarterly earnings of $31 million
30 Juillet 2010 09:55Domtar Corporation has reported net earnings of $31 million for the second quarter of 2010 compared to net earnings of $58 million for the first quarter of 2010 and net earnings of $48 million for ... Lire la suite...
Plan to burn trees for power in Nova Scotia put on hold
30 Juillet 2010 09:23A regulatory board hearing has been underway in Nova Scotia this week concerning a plan by NewPage and Nova Scotia Power to build a $208 million biomass energy plant. Nova Scotia ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper records net quarterly loss of $368.4 million
30 Juillet 2010 07:26Catalyst Paper has recorded a net loss of $368.4 million on sales of $299.4 million for the second quarter of 2010. Results were significantly impacted by after-tax impairment and closure costs of $302.0 million ... Lire la suite...
Fairfax has a great quarter, posting earnings of $325.2 million
29 Juillet 2010 19:17Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. has reported quarterly earnings of $325.2 million (U.S.) compared to a profit of $275.4 million a year ago. Revenue for the quarter amounted to $1.81 billion, up from $1.74 ... Lire la suite...
Firefighting chopper crashes in B.C.
29 Juillet 2010 18:57A firefighting helicopter has crashed near Lillooet, British Columbia. Fortunately both men aboard have survived the crash. The pilot was taken to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops with pain in ... Lire la suite...
TimberWest curtails harvesting operations due to fire risk
29 Juillet 2010 18:21TimberWest Forest Corp. has just taken extra steps to reduce the risk of wildfire on its private managed forest lands in British Columbia. "Much of our land base is in ... Lire la suite...
Canfor posts quarterly net income of $40.4 million
29 Juillet 2010 18:05Canfor Corporation has reported total net income of $40.4 million for the second quarter of 2010, compared to $32.5 million for the first quarter of 2010 and $12.1 million for the second quarter of 2009. The ... Lire la suite...
Tembec posts quarterly profit of $59 million
29 Juillet 2010 12:34Tembec has posted a third quarter profit of $59 million (Cdn), or 59 Canadian cents a share, compared with a net loss of $38 million, or 38 Canadian cents a share a year earlier. ... Lire la suite...
TimberWest posts strongest quarterly results in 3 years
29 Juillet 2010 09:16TimberWest Forest Corp. posted its strongest normalized quarterly results in three years generating positive EBITDA of $9.7 million and positive distributable cash of $4.0 million in Q2, 2010. This compares to an EBITDA ... Lire la suite...
Works resumes at Tolko Industries' Armstrong plywood operation
28 Juillet 2010 10:13After a month long curtailment, workers are back at their jobs at Tolko Industries' Armstrong plywood operation in British Columbia. “We’ve been able to focus on speciality products,” said ... Lire la suite...
AV Group receives $36.3 million
28 Juillet 2010 10:01The AV Group, who runs the AV Nackawic mill and the AV Cell mill in New Brunswick, are receiving $36.3 million from Natural Resources Canada's Pulp and Paper Green Transformation program. ... Lire la suite...
AV Nackawic Pulp Mill receives $2.37 million
28 Juillet 2010 10:01The Government of Canada is investing in two capital improvement projects that will support clean energy production and environmental improvements at the AV Nackawic pulp mill in Nackawic, New Brunswick, ... Lire la suite...
International Paper posts net quarterly earnings of $93 million
28 Juillet 2010 07:15International Paper has posted a preliminary second-quarter 2010 net earnings totaling $93 million compared with a net loss of $162 million in the first quarter of 2010 and net earnings of $136 million in the ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp has a good day in court
27 Juillet 2010 19:06Terrace Bay Pulp is one step closer to reopening this summer. Today the company announced that their Plan of Arrangement has been sanctioned by the Ontario Superior Court, clearing the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater has paid off $166 million of its DIP loan
27 Juillet 2010 08:28On July 21, AbitibiBowater repaid $166 million of its debtor-in-possession (DIP) loan, leaving $40 million remaining. AbitibiBowater has said it was able to make the payment due to an improvement in market conditions ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products plans to restart its Ladysmith sawmill
27 Juillet 2010 07:53Western Forest Products will be restarting its Ladysmith sawmill on or around September 7, 2010. The Ladysmith sawmill was closed indefinitely on April 26, 2008 due to poor market conditions. The operation will now ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reaches tentative agreement with workers
27 Juillet 2010 07:48Western Forest Products has reached a tentative 4-year labour agreement with the United Steelworkers Union. The contract, which covers the vast majority of Western's unionized hourly workforce, includes USW Locals 1... Lire la suite...
Will the gutting of the B.C. Forest Service lead to privatization?
26 Juillet 2010 20:33An article published by Focus Online is exposing the current emaciated state of the British Columbia Forest Service and questions if the gutting of the Forest Service has been plotted ... Lire la suite...
Tembec's Temiscaming workers agree to concessions
26 Juillet 2010 19:39Workers at Tembec's Temiscaming pulp mill in Quebec have agreed to concession in order for Tembec to invest in mill upgrades. Instead of accept the 10% wage concessions that are part ... Lire la suite...
Should Nova Scotia burn trees for power generation? Hearings begin today
26 Juillet 2010 07:22Hearings begin today by the Nova Scotia regulatory agency over a biomass-fueled power generation proposal. NewPage Port Hawkesbury Corp. and Nova Scotia Power (a subsidiary of Emera Inc.) have a ... Lire la suite...
Ear Falls concessions and a stable wood supply may be key to restart sawmill
23 Juillet 2010 10:24President of EACOM Timber, Rick Doman, has said that the costs need to be reduced at the Ear Falls and Sault Ste. Marie sawmills in Ontario before they will be ... Lire la suite...
Interfor posts net loss of $2.6 million
23 Juillet 2010 07:48International Forest Products Ltd. (Interfor) reported a net loss of $2.6 million or $0.06 per share in the second quarter of 2010. The loss for the quarter includes a tax valuation allowance of $1.3 ... Lire la suite...
Workers vote in favour of strike action at Ainsworth OSB mill in Barwick
23 Juillet 2010 07:26Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) Local 324-99 of the Ainsworth Engineered LP facility in Barwick, Ontario have rejected their employer's final offer, and have voted in favour ... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp Income Fund posts quarterly net income of $22.1 million
22 Juillet 2010 09:48The Canfor Pulp Income Fund (the Fund) has posted their second quarter results. The Fund has a 49.8% ownership in the Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (the Partnership). The Partnership has posted ... Lire la suite...
New mill starts ups in Ontario are still waiting for a wood supply
21 Juillet 2010 14:24Atikokan Renewable Fuels feels their plan to restart the defunct Fibratech plant to produce wood pellets has been severely hampered by Ontario's competitive wood supply process. Ontario created a competition ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp is ordering supplies
21 Juillet 2010 07:55The mill workers in Terrace Bay, Ontario are a little more hopeful this week that the plans to reopen Terrace Bay Pulp may actually come to fruition. Yesterday, Terrace Bay ... Lire la suite...
Lockout of Port of Montreal workers may lead to AbitibiBowater layoffs
20 Juillet 2010 20:10Exporters, like AbitibiBowater, may have to lay off workers if the lockout of the Port of Montreal workers continues. 850 port workers were locked out on July 18 over a wage dispute. ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper didn't pay its full 2010 tax bill to North Cowichan
20 Juillet 2010 08:20Catalyst Paper sent out their tax payments last week and North Cowichan, British Columbia is feeling a sense of déjà vu. North Cowichan received two cheques last week. One ... Lire la suite...
SGF extends a $79 million loan to Fibrek
19 Juillet 2010 13:25Société générale de financement du Québec (SGF) has announced a contribution of $78 million dollars as part of a global refinancing agreement totaling approximately $190 M for Fibrek ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers posts net loss of $13.1 million
17 Juillet 2010 14:06Fraser Papers Inc.Fraser Papers has posted a net loss of $13.1 million in its first quarter. As a result of the sale of Fraser Papers' specialty papers assets to Twin ... Lire la suite...
Howe Sound Pulp and Paper purchased by Paper Excellence
16 Juillet 2010 18:07Howe Sound Pulp and Paper has been sold by its owners (Canfor and Oji Paper Co. Ltd. of Japan) to Paper Excellence B.V. Paper Excellence B.V. is based ... Lire la suite...
Domtar and FPInnovations join forces to develop innovative fiber-based nanotechnologies
16 Juillet 2010 14:13Domtar Corporation and FPInnovations today announced that they have formed a new joint venture company to build the world's first one metric ton per day commercial-scale nanocrystalline cellulose demonstration plant ... Lire la suite...
British Columbia's forestry job numbers
15 Juillet 2010 23:13It seems that forestry employment numbers bottomed out last year in British Columbia and may now be making a rebound. Here are some forestry job stats from British Columbia: 2005 – 79,700 2006 – 81,617 2007 – 84,275 2008 – 64,917 2009 – 51,958 2010 (Jan ... Lire la suite...
Still hurdles in the way for Terrace Bay Pulp to restart
14 Juillet 2010 20:37Terrace Bay Pulp executives submitted their creditor payment plan to Ontario's Superior Court in Toronto yesterday. That plan will see Terrace Bay Pulp pay $35 million to about 170 creditors. The court ... Lire la suite...
Tolko's Armstrong sawmill undamaged by fire
13 Juillet 2010 20:12Crews continue to mop up spot fires at Tolko Industries Ltd.’s Armstrong Division. The fire, which began Sunday afternoon, was contained to the hog pile and log yard. Pat ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's Fort Frances mill fined for workplace accident
13 Juillet 2010 20:06In 2008, two electricians and a student received first, second, and third degree burns after making contact with a live conductor at the AbitibiBowater mill in Fort Frances, Ontario. As a ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Tolko in Armstrong, B.C.
12 Juillet 2010 08:17At least 100 homes were evacuated yesterday when a pile of sawdust caught on fire at the Armstrong Tolko Industries plant in British Columbia. The fire started in hog fuel and ... Lire la suite...
How B.C. sawmills are targeting the Chinese market
12 Juillet 2010 08:03There was an informative article in the Globe and Mail over the weekend detailing efforts in British Columbia to establish a market for their lumber in China. Did you know ... Lire la suite...
EACOM Timber Corporation Announces Board Changes
11 Juillet 2010 10:58EACOM Timber Corporation is pleased to announce that following its recently announced acquisition of the Forest Products business of Domtar Corporation, it has undertaken a number of changes to its ... Lire la suite...
Corner Brook Pulp & Paper workers are not rushing to negotiate
11 Juillet 2010 10:53The unionized workers at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper in Newfoundland are not rushing to negotiate a new contract. The workers have been without a collective agreement for over a ... Lire la suite...
Tolko extends its curtailment in Spallumcheen
11 Juillet 2010 10:19The curtailment that began at Tolko Industries's plywood operation in Spallumcheen, British Columbia on July 5th, will be extended for an additional week. 140 employees are affected by the temporary curtailment. ... Lire la suite...
Another executive leaves NewPage
09 Juillet 2010 17:02On July 2, 2010, the boards of directors of NewPage Holding Corporation and NewPage Corporation accepted the resignation of Michael L. Marziale as senior vice president, marketing, strategy and general management, effective ... Lire la suite...
Port Alberni could be heated from Catalyst's steam
09 Juillet 2010 07:30The waste steam from a Catalyst Paper paper mill may be used some day to heat large buildings in Port Alberti. For this to happen, heat lines would be located ... Lire la suite...
Peace River Pulp Division receives $40.57 million
09 Juillet 2010 07:25The Government of Canada’s investment of $40.57 million in Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. (DMI) is improving the company’s environmental performance and helping drive the evolution of Canada’s forest sector, ... Lire la suite...
Could the ash from Corner Brook Pulp and Paper be reused?
09 Juillet 2010 07:21Researchers are studying the ash produced by burning at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper in Newfoundland, and are investigating if the ash could be reused for agricultural, horticultural, and forestry ... Lire la suite...
Extension of Fraser Paper's creditor protection period
09 Juillet 2010 07:15Fraser Papers Inc. has announced that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) has granted a further extension of the initial Order under which Fraser Papers, together with its ... Lire la suite...
Grand Falls-Windsor lost its main employer, but has somehow thrived
08 Juillet 2010 07:15When AbitibiBowater closed the mill in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, most people assumed the economy of the central Newfoundland town would tank. But the opposite has happened. Last year by this ... Lire la suite...
Alberta's cold winter did knock back the mountain pine beetles
08 Juillet 2010 07:08Scientists are now saying last winter's cold temperatures in Alberta were cold enough to knock back the population of mountain pine beetles. Bark samples from 1,266 pine trees at 229 sites show ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper is permanently closing Elk Falls paper mill & Coquitlam recycling operation
07 Juillet 2010 07:30Catalyst Paper has decided to permanently close its Elk Falls paper mill near Campbell River, British Columbia and its paper recycling operation in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The Elk Falls mill ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater hopes to be free of court protection on October 1
06 Juillet 2010 08:16AbitibiBowater hopes its restructuring plan wins the support of its creditors in late August so the company can escape from bankruptcy court protection on October 1st. The restructuring plan aims ... Lire la suite...
Update from Tembec regarding fire at Chetwynd mill
05 Juillet 2010 09:43Tembec has provided an update regarding a fire at the its high yield pulp mill in Chetwynd, British Columbia. The fire started on Wednesday, June 30, in the late afternoon. Emergency ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Tembec's Chetwynd pulp mill
03 Juillet 2010 09:23A fire broke out on Wednesday at Tembec's Chetwynd pulp mill in British Columbia. The fire began in the mill but quickly spread through the mill to the outside chip ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Ligni Bel sawmill in Scotsburn, Nova Scotia
02 Juillet 2010 07:36The Ligni Bel sawmill in Scotsburn, Nova Scotia suffered significant damage in a fire yesterday. Several firefighters were injured when a flashover occurred in the boiler house due to the ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser closes Northstar Lumber permanently
02 Juillet 2010 07:13West Fraser Timber has decided to permanently close Northstar Lumber in Quesnel, British Columbia. The mill was idled in December 2008 putting 127 people out of work. The mill had been producing ... Lire la suite...
Domtar completes sale of its Forest Products Business to EACOM
01 Juillet 2010 18:10Domtar Corporation has announced the closing of its previously announced transaction to sell its Forest Products Business to EACOM Timber Corporation. EACOM acquired the business for CDN$80 million plus elements ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper will be paying their full tax bill in 3 British Columbia communities
30 Juin 2010 20:49Catalyst Paper will pay its full municipal property tax bill in three of the four municipalities that host its B.C. paper mills, but is seeking leave from the Supreme ... Lire la suite...
Could we prevent Dutch elm disease by cloning resistant trees?
30 Juin 2010 09:02Praveen Saxena, a University of Guelph researcher, is searching for elm trees that have proven to be high resistant or highly tolerant to Dutch elm disease. If resistant trees can ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp receives positive vote to continue with its payment plan
30 Juin 2010 08:48Terrace Bay Pulp received a nearly unanimous vote to continue with its plan to pay off creditors and move forward towards reopening the mill this summer. 165 of the company's 168 creditors ... Lire la suite...
German company is unable to take over Grand Falls-Windsor pulp mill
29 Juin 2010 07:37Lott Paper, from Germany, is in no position to follow through with their plans to take over the idled, former AbitibiBowater pulp mill in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland. Lott Paper filed ... Lire la suite...
Northern Pulp creates Nova Scotia Forest Research Program
28 Juin 2010 07:30Northern Pulp Nova Scotia is creating a new Forest Research Program in the province. Northern Pulp’s initiative and $1 million investment over five years will drive research to study the ... Lire la suite...
U.S. Courts Approve AbitibiBowater's Backstop Commitment Agreement
25 Juin 2010 17:56AbitibiBowater Inc. today announced that, in connection with its creditor protection proceedings and exit financing efforts, the Company has obtained approval of a backstop commitment agreement by the U.S. ... Lire la suite...
Tolko curtails Armstrong division for 1 week
25 Juin 2010 07:21Tolko Industries is curtailing its Armstrong, British Columbia division for a minimum of 1 week. The curtailment, scheduled for market re-adjustment, will begin on July 5th. 150 employees will be affected. Tolko ... Lire la suite...
Germany's Lott Paper wants former Grand Falls-Windsor paper mill in Newfoundland
25 Juin 2010 07:15German company Lott Paper wants to reopen the former AbitibiBowater paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland. Lott Paper wants to fill the market void left in Germany since AbitibiBowater idled ... Lire la suite...
Canfor tenatively plans to restart Vavenby
22 Juin 2010 21:01Tentative plans are being made by Canfor to upgrade its Vavenby mill in British Columbia The plans call for a $30 million modernization project at the mill that would put at ... Lire la suite...
Weyerhaeuser shrinks its debt
22 Juin 2010 20:55Weyerhaeuser is in the news this week for taking steps to actively shrink its debt. Weyerhaeuser recently offered to repurchase all of its outstanding 6.750% notes that are due on March 15, 2010. ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp has lost its funding provider
22 Juin 2010 20:44Terrace Bay Pulp has lost its funding provider of $40 million. This is the latest dark cloud greying the company's delayed restart plan. Terrace Bay Pulp does have a $25 million loan ... Lire la suite...
Tembec's outlook improves
21 Juin 2010 14:19Tembec has announced that its operational earnings are expected to increase in its third quarter - by at least 42%. Tembec said its EBITDA (arnings before non-recurring items, interest, income taxes, ... Lire la suite...
Smurfit Stone cleared to exit bankruptcy this month
21 Juin 2010 14:09Smurfit Stone Container Corporation has received approval from the court to exit from bankruptcy protection later this month - around June 30. After emerging from bankruptcy, the company will be controlled ... Lire la suite...
What is behind NewPage's resignations?
18 Juin 2010 08:12A lot of buzz followed NewPage's announcement earlier this week. If you missed it, NewPage announced that its President and CEO E. Thomas Curley, Chairman of its board Mark A. ... Lire la suite...
Fire at Irving's mill in Saint John
16 Juin 2010 11:18Last night there was a fire on the roof of Irving's paper mill in Saint John, New Brunswick. The fire started on the roof of the mill's thermal mechanical pulping ... Lire la suite...
NewPage resignations
15 Juin 2010 08:12NewPage Corporation announced today that E. Thomas Curley has resigned as president and chief executive officer and as a director of NewPage and its affiliates. In addition, NewPage announced that ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's sawmill workers in Quebec reject contract proposal
15 Juin 2010 06:49AbitibiBowater's workers at 4 sawmills in Quebec have voted 53% against their latest contract proposal. The 4 sawmills, with a collective total of 500 workers, are Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean in Girardville, Mistassini, The Gold, and St. ... Lire la suite...
Tembec announces its scheduled summer downtime
14 Juin 2010 11:54Tembec has announced scheduled downtime for this summer: Summer Shutdowns: Cochrane, Ontario - 5 weeks - beginning June 28 Senneterre, Quebec - 5 weeks - beginning June 28 Kapuskasing, Ontario - 2 weeks - beginning ... Lire la suite...
Corner Brook Pulp and Paper pleads guilty
14 Juin 2010 07:41Kruger's Corner Brook Pulp and Paper has changed its plea to guilty in regards to an accidental spill in October 2007. About 7,400 litres of a solution of 50% caustic soda — also known ... Lire la suite...
A green pulp mill that is tree-free?
14 Juin 2010 07:29Prairie Pulp and Paper aims to produce a high-quality, eco-friendly paper from wheat and flax straw in southern Manitoba. The company is backed by a group of investors that includes ... Lire la suite...
Weyerhaeuser announces reopening of Hudson Bay OSB mill in Saskatchewan
11 Juin 2010 20:05Weyerhaeuser is reopening its OSB plant in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan in September. Production at the mill has been curtailed since July of 2008. The majority of Hudson Bay's workforce will be ... Lire la suite...
Elmsdale Lumber receives $3 million from Nova Scotia
11 Juin 2010 10:27Elmsdale Lumber is receiving $3 million in the form of a repayable loan from the Nova Scotia government. The company will use the loan to modernize its manufacturing and production operations ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp fined for pollution
10 Juin 2010 20:45Terrace Bay Pulp has been filed $150,000 after the company plead guilty to fouling the air and contaminating a sewage system in two separate incidents while the plant was still running ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater announces completion of asset sales
08 Juin 2010 09:35AbitibiBowater announced today that its subsidiaries have completed (i) the sale of three idle paper mills located in eastern Canada together with certain related assets and the property on which ... Lire la suite...
Ensyn Technologies Inc. and Tolko Industries Ltd. announce formation of partnership to build world's largest commercial fast pyrolysis plant
07 Juin 2010 14:04Ensyn Technologies Inc. and Tolko Industries Ltd. announced today that they have formed a partnership to build the world's largest commercial fast pyrolysis plant in High Level, Alberta. The partnership, ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater sells golf course to town of Donnacona
07 Juin 2010 07:33AbitibiBowater has sold its company owned golf course, and its surrounding park land to the town of Donnacona, Quebec for $352,000. Some of the park land is zoned for residential development. ... Lire la suite...
Domtar's Espanola mill receives $995,000
06 Juin 2010 16:39Domtar Corporation, North America’s largest integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated freesheet paper, is improving its environmental performance and contributing to a more sustainable pulp and paper industry in ... Lire la suite...
Conifex Timber completes acquisition of Mackenzie sawmills
04 Juin 2010 10:46Conifex Timber Inc. ("Conifex"), formerly West Fourth Capital Inc. ("Fourth"), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of certain sawmill and related assets located at or near Mackenzie, British ... Lire la suite...
Union decides not to vote on Catalyst Paper's proposal
04 Juin 2010 09:46Union officials from the CEP have presented a detailed version of Catalyst Paper's proposal to its Elk Falls members on Wednesday night. After examining the details, the union members decided ... Lire la suite...
Howe Sound Pulp and Paper wants to alter its fuel source
04 Juin 2010 09:38Howe Sound Pulp and Paper, of coastal British Columbia, has applied to the B.C. Ministry of the Environment to alter its fuel source. The company wishes to add construction ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater appoints Richard Garneau to its Board of Directors
03 Juin 2010 12:30AbitibiBowater Inc. today announced the appointment of Richard Garneau to serve on its Board of Directors. AbitibiBowater also announced today the departure of Anthony F. Griffiths as a member of ... Lire la suite...
Irving workers fight back against random alcohol tests
03 Juin 2010 08:25An arbitrator has sided with the workers of the Irving Pulp and Paper mill in St. John, New Brunswick after the workers grieved Irving's policy of random alcohol testing. Irving ... Lire la suite...
Tolko Industries receives $810,000
02 Juin 2010 14:00Tolko Industries Ltd. is improving its environmental performance and contributing to a more sustainable pulp and paper industry in Canada with help from an $810,000 investment by the Government of Canada. ... Lire la suite...
Interfor Castlegar sawmill set to reopen in July
01 Juin 2010 21:17Interfor is set to reopen its sawmill in Castlegar, British Columbia in July. Interfor's spokesman, Rick Slaco, has confirmed that between 5 and 60 people have been hired to work in the ... Lire la suite...
Northern Pulp Reaffirms Environmental Stewardship Commitment
31 Mai 2010 21:14Northern Pulp, in Nova Scotia, has reaffirmed its commitment to environmental stewardship by signing an Environmental Stewardship Partners Program (ESPP) agreement with the Pictou Harbour Environment Protection Project (PHEPP), a ... Lire la suite...
Denis Jean appointed Catalyst Paper interim President & CEO
31 Mai 2010 10:51Catalyst Paper has announced the appointment of Denis Jean, a current director of the Board as the company's interim president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. A veteran of the ... Lire la suite...
Video from Wemotaci native reserve as forest fire approaches
30 Mai 2010 11:51Have you ever been near a forest fire? This video from the Wemotaci native reserve in Quebec shows breathtaking video filmed on Friday as a massive forest fire nears the ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper - a bully?
30 Mai 2010 11:16Union officials are accusing Catalyst Paper of trying to bully and intimidate workers and their families in relation to the company's 'fresh start' proposal to restart the Elk Falls mill. ... Lire la suite...
Recent video of Wawa 18 fire in Ontario
30 Mai 2010 10:17Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) videos of the Wawa 18 fire: This fire has exhibited extreme behaviour that resulted in an emergency order being declared yesterday morning. An Emergency Area ... Lire la suite...
Granules LG International Inc. receives $3.3 million in government funding
29 Mai 2010 18:03The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of State for Canada Economic Development, announced the awarding of $2,560,000 in repayable funding for the startup of Granules LG international Inc., a wood pellet pilot ... Lire la suite...
Forest fire updates
27 Mai 2010 20:50Forest fire season is in full strength across the country with many lightning sparked fires igniting tinder-dry forests. Quebec Lightning has started several forest fires in Quebec this week. 800 firefighters ... Lire la suite...
Should Catalyst Paper move to China?
27 Mai 2010 10:32With word spreading that Catalyst Paper might be making a move to relocate to Yangcheng, China from Vancouver Island, many people are wondering if it is just a ploy by ... Lire la suite...
German company tours Grand Falls-Windsor facilities
26 Mai 2010 07:37An unnamed German pulp and paper company toured the former AbitibiBowater mill in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland. Newfoundland and Labrador Natural Resources Minister Kathy Dunderdale is warning people not to get ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers Signs Agreement to Sell New Hampshire Paper Mill
25 Mai 2010 18:48Fraser Papers Inc. announced that its subsidiary Fraser N.H. LLC, has reached an agreement to sell substantially all of its assets to an investment fund managed by MerchantBanc, LLC, ... Lire la suite...
Elk Falls restart dependant on concessions
25 Mai 2010 18:45Workers of Catalyst Paper's Elk Falls mill in British Columbia are being told to accept wage concessions, or their mill will never restart. Elk Falls has been idle for 15 months. ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp back in court on Wednesday
25 Mai 2010 18:27Buchanan Forest Products, parent company of Terrace Bay Pulp, will be back in court tomorrow. The company will be asking for the Ontario Superior Court's approval to have a meeting ... Lire la suite...
Mackenzie mill now scheduled to restart on August 1
25 Mai 2010 09:26The former Pope & Talbot/Worthington pulp mill in Mackenzie, British Columbia has had its restart date bumped up to August 1st - providing a fibre deal is in place. Sinar ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Files Amended Plans of Reorganization and Disclosure Documents
24 Mai 2010 18:23AbitibiBowater Inc. has announced that certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries, currently under creditor protection, have filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware ... Lire la suite...
$22.7 million for Domtar's Dryden pulp mill
22 Mai 2010 16:43Domtar is received $22.7 million for its Dryden, Ontario pulp mill under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (PPGTP). The funding will be used for two capital improvement projects that ... Lire la suite...
Status of Miramichi economy topic of emergency meeting
21 Mai 2010 13:17Miramichi, New Brunswick has suffered from the downturn in the forestry sector, but the city held its hopes high on a new $700 million plant that was to be build at ... Lire la suite...
Have NewPage and Kruger made a deal?
21 Mai 2010 12:25The author of the Dead Tree Edition blog contacted me this morning with some insight to yesterday's announcement by Kruger that they were cutting production of coated paper in Trois-Rivieres, ... Lire la suite...
Kruger cuts production at 2 Quebec mills
19 Mai 2010 19:05Kruger Inc. is cutting production at 2 Quebec mills. 440 employees will be laid off. Kruger is indefinitely ceasing production of coated and supercalendered paper at its Trois-Rivieres mill in south-central Quebec. ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber's Hinton pulp mill receives $15 million
19 Mai 2010 08:08West Fraser Timber will boost its environmental performance and contribute to a more sustainable pulp and paper industry in Canada with help from a significant investment by the Government of ... Lire la suite...
Newfoundland and Labrador's AbitibiBowater appeal rejected
19 Mai 2010 07:22The province of Newfoundland and Labrador wanted to become a secured creditor of AbitibiBowater to ensure the company pays for the environmental cleanup of sites it once owned in the ... Lire la suite...
Wondering about AbitibiBowater's first quarterly results?
18 Mai 2010 19:57Wondering how AbitibiBowater did in their first quarter of 2010? And why you haven't see the results yet? AbitibiBowater filed a Form NT 10-Q today - a filing that is used ... Lire la suite...
Truce declared - Forest industry and environmental groups reach deal
18 Mai 2010 12:11Love it or hate hate, the Canadian forest industry has agreed to a deal with environmentalists. The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Deal details: logging will be suspended in 29 million ha ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater closes Gatineau mill
17 Mai 2010 18:42AbitibiBowater has announced its intention to indefinitely close its Gatineau, Quebec mill. 500 employees will be out of work. "Workers in Gatineau have been abandoned by their federal government and betrayed ... Lire la suite...
Eastern Canada pulp and paper workers decide pattern for industry bargaining
16 Mai 2010 16:49The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union Eastern Canadian Pulp and Paper caucus has determined the terms of a five-year pattern agreement for the eastern industry that interprets the AbitibiBowater agreement ... Lire la suite...
Loggers and environmentalists - about to declare truce?
14 Mai 2010 08:15Environmentalists want areas of the boreal forest protected from logging. Forest companies want the environmentalists to stop the anti-forestry marketing campaigns against their company. This week both sides come together ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth posts net earnings of $15.7 million
14 Mai 2010 07:37Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has reported a net income of $15.7 million in its first quarter compared to a net loss of $34.0 million in the first quarter of 2009. Ainsworth President and ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers' 2009 Results
13 Mai 2010 16:43Fraser Papers Inc. has reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2009. As a result of the sale of Fraser Papers' specialty papers assets to Twin Rivers Paper Company Inc. ... Lire la suite...
Quarterly results catch-up
13 Mai 2010 07:32Additional recently reported quarterly results: Cascades Inc. - Broke even in its first quarter. Read details Sino-Forest Corporation - Net income rose by 86% in its first quarter to $42.8 million. Read ... Lire la suite...
Swedish FSC SLIMF Standard for Forest Certification approved
12 Mai 2010 09:58The FSC Director General has delivered a positive approval decision for the "Swedish FSC SLIMF Standard for Forest Certification”. The approval of the Swedish SLIMF (Small and Low Intensity Managed ... Lire la suite...
Proposed legislation will protect logging contractors
12 Mai 2010 09:17British Columbia is proposing a new Forestry Service Providers Act to replace the Woodworker Lien Act. In 2007, when Pope & Talbot went under, logging contractors suffered without payment for their services. ... Lire la suite...
Claims against AbitibiBowater now tally $35.5 billion
11 Mai 2010 18:00AbitibiBowater has just released the latest report by its court appointed creditor protection monitor, Ernst & Young Inc. To date, the monitor has tallied 7,423 claims against AbitibiBowater for a total of $35,541,044,692. ... Lire la suite...
Canfor announces restart of Quesnel sawmill
11 Mai 2010 06:59Canfor Corporation has announced that it will be restarting operations at its Quesnel sawmill in June. The decision to restart operations in Quesnel comes as a result of the Canfor's ... Lire la suite...
Half a million acres of Indiana Forest Land become FSC certified
11 Mai 2010 04:29The US State of Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) obtains FSC Forest Management (FM) certification for 528,332 acres of Indiana forests – 10,000 of which are High Conservation Value Forests.... Lire la suite...
Eastern Canada workers vote 63% in favour of AbitibiBowater collective agreement
10 Mai 2010 18:05AbitibiBowater's unionized employees in Eastern Canada, represented by the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), have voted 63% in favour of their proposed collective agreement. The new agreement carries ... Lire la suite...
World's first FSC certificate for African Blackwood awarded to Hanson Clarinets
10 Mai 2010 09:00The UK's largest clarinet manufacturer Hanson Clarinets is awarded the world's first FSC Chain of Custody (CoC) certificate for African Blackwood. Hanson Clarinets expects to launch the world's first FSC-certified ... Lire la suite...
Canfor sells Uneeda Wood Products
10 Mai 2010 07:02Canfor is selling its Uneeda Wood Products mill to BID Group of Companies. Uneeda Wood Products employs about 100 people in Chilliwack, British Columbia. The mill is excited to return to ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater investigates power generation in Thunder Bay
07 Mai 2010 07:31With $51 million, AbitibiBowater believes it could produce more than 60% of its own power at its Thunder Bay, Ontario mill by installing a condensing turbine, associated generator and cooling tower to ... Lire la suite...
Newfoundland and Labrador appeal AbitibiBowater environmental warning
07 Mai 2010 07:25The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is appealing the recent ruling by Quebec Justice Clement Gascon, who ruled in favour of AbitibiBowater when the province asked for the company to ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper ends tax feud
07 Mai 2010 07:07This week Catalyst Paper abandoned its appeal of the British Columbia Supreme Court decision in which Mr. Justice Voith upheld the legal validity of the City of Port Alberni’s 2009 ... Lire la suite...
Reopening of the Ear Falls sawmill "imminent"
05 Mai 2010 18:50Rick Doman, President and CEO of Eacom Timber Corporation, talked recently with the Dryden Observer about the future of the idled Ear Falls, Ontario sawmill. Eacom Timber recently acquired the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Files Framework for Plan of Reorganization
04 Mai 2010 18:55AbitibiBowater Inc. has announced that the Company and certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries, currently under creditor protection, have filed with courts in Canada and the United States ... Lire la suite...
Cascades Canada pleads guilty to discharging contaminate
03 Mai 2010 20:50In August of 2008, charges were laid against Cascades Canada, owner of the Norampac Paper mill in Trenton, Ontario for discharging a "black particulate". Today Cascades Canada plead guilty to two ... Lire la suite...
Marathon, there are PCBs in the groundwater, but there is no risk to your drinking water
30 Avril 2010 20:31The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has found high levels of PCBs in the groundwater on the old Marathon Pulp mill site. However, officials from the Ministry are saying there ... Lire la suite...
Workshop sets the ground for Ecosystem Services Project
30 Avril 2010 10:27FSC recently initiated the preparatory phase of a new project designed to test FSC forest management certification for ecosystem services, entitled “Expanding FSC certification at the landscape level through ... Lire la suite...
Earth Day founder highlights reliability of FSC standards
30 Avril 2010 09:53Earth Day founder and recognized leader on conservation policy Denis Hayes cautions the U.S. Green Building Council not to let its prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ... Lire la suite...
Dontar posts quarterly net earnings of $58 million
30 Avril 2010 08:01Domtar Corporation has posted their preliminary first quarter results showing net earnings of $58 million compared to net earnings of $124 million for the fourth quarter of 2009 and a net loss of $45 ... Lire la suite...
Domtar posts quarterly net earnings of $58 million
30 Avril 2010 08:01Domtar Corporation has posted their preliminary first quarter results showing net earnings of $58 million compared to net earnings of $124 million for the fourth quarter of 2009 and a net loss of $45 ... Lire la suite...
New FSC publications available online
30 Avril 2010 06:03FSC has released three new publications to promote understanding of the FSC system. Available online, the publications provide stakeholders with useful resources to work with FSC and highlight the impacts ... Lire la suite...
Government of Canada Supporting Competitive Forest Sector at Home and Abroad
29 Avril 2010 10:19The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural Resources, has announced $2.8 million in funding to expand domestic and overseas market initiatives for Quebec’s forest industry. In his keynote speech at ... Lire la suite...
Canfor posts a quarterly net income of $32.5 million
29 Avril 2010 09:01Canfor Corporation has reported total net income of $32.5 million for the first quarter of 2010, compared to a net loss of $9.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2009 and a net loss ... Lire la suite...
Renewable Electricity Plan concerns Forest Industry
28 Avril 2010 09:58Forest Products Association of Nova Scotia (FPANS) has concerns with Nova Scotia's new Renewable Electricity Plan released on Friday (April 23rd) by the provincial government (.pdf). FPANS has long been ... Lire la suite...
Buchanan Forest Products requests more time to restart the Terrace Bay Pulp mill
27 Avril 2010 19:43Buchanan Forest Products is asking the court for a 60 day extension before restarting the Terrace Bay Pulp mill. "Last year we negotiated a term sheet with the province for a $25 ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper to appeal tax ruling to Supreme Court of Canada
27 Avril 2010 07:37Catalyst Paper will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, following dismissal of its appeal concerning the North Cowichan 2009 tax bylaw by the Court of Appeal for ... Lire la suite...
Aerial gypsy moth spay program in Richmond, B.C.
27 Avril 2010 07:28A gypsy moth aerial spray program is beginning in Richmond, British Columbia this week with hopes of killing off a infestation of gypsy moths. Foray 48R will be sprayed from ... Lire la suite...
Aerial gypsy moth spray program in Richmond, B.C.
27 Avril 2010 07:28A gypsy moth aerial spray program is beginning in Richmond, British Columbia this week with hopes of killing off a infestation of gypsy moths. Foray 48R will be sprayed from ... Lire la suite...
Rio Tinto Alcan is interested in AbitibiBowater's former Saguenay mill site
26 Avril 2010 19:31Rio Tinto Alcan, an aluminum company, is interested in AbitibiBowater's former Port Alfred paper mill site in Saguenay, Quebec. AbitibiBowater is seeking approval of the bankruptcy court to sell the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's ratification vote begins
26 Avril 2010 19:00Over the next two weeks, more than 4,000 workers in Eastern Canada will have their chance to vote on a tentative deal reached between AbitibiBowater and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers ... Lire la suite...
Clearcutting numbers down in Nova Scotia
26 Avril 2010 17:55A recent study of the numbers by Forest Products Association of Nova Scotia (FPANS) has revealed that clearcutting use in the province’s forest industry is way down. Actually, it ... Lire la suite...
Harmac decides to pay $2 million in back taxes
24 Avril 2010 19:52Nanaimo Forest Products, owner of the Harmac pulp mill, has decided to pay $2 million of its 2009 property taxes to Nanaimo. The board of the company decided that a provincial appeal ... Lire la suite...
Court rejects Catalyst Paper's tax compaint
24 Avril 2010 19:09A British Columbia Court of Appeal has rejected Catalyst Paper's tax rate complaint against the District of North Cowichan. Catalyst Paper feels the corporate tax rate for its Crofton mill ... Lire la suite...
Nanaimo's mayor doesn't like special deals
24 Avril 2010 19:02Nanaimo's mayor, John Ruttan, does not think it is likely the city will charge Harmac's pulp mill a lower municipal tax rate in exchange for access to the mill's plentiful ... Lire la suite...
Interfor posts quarterly loss of $3.4 million - plans to reopen Castlegar
24 Avril 2010 18:47Interfor Forest Products Ltd. may reopen its Castlegar mill on a reduced basis as early as July because of the increases in lumber pricing and demand. Interfor posted a net ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser posts a profit of $19 million
24 Avril 2010 18:39West Fraser Timber has posted a profit of $19 million in its first quarter ($0.45 a share). West Fraser Timber owes its profit to rebounding lumber prices. The company warned that prices ... Lire la suite...
Water bomber crashed in N.B. killing pilot
24 Avril 2010 16:00Pilot Ron Clowes was killed yesterday when the water bomber he was flying crashed shortly after takeoff near the Miramichi, New Brunswick airport. The water bomber, a 60 year old TBM ... Lire la suite...
Newfoundland says it didn't mean to expropriate the paper mill
23 Avril 2010 08:13Newfoundland and Labrador rushed to expropriate AbitibiBowater's assets before the company could hold a pre-bankruptcy fire sale. The province really wanted the timber and water rights back, as well as ... Lire la suite...
ASI welcomes a new staff member
23 Avril 2010 06:25Accreditation Services International (ASI) is pleased to welcome a new staff member to its international team. Etienne Kuzong will further the work of ASI, the independent accreditation body which delivers ... Lire la suite...
Beaupré has court authorization to seize AbitibiBowater mill for unpaid taxes
22 Avril 2010 14:26The town of Beaupré, Quebec has received court authorization to seize and sell the assets of the AbitibiBowater mill in their town, unless AbitibiBowater pays $700,000 in overdue taxes. AbitibiBowater has ... Lire la suite...
New project to demonstrate and evaluate satellite remote sensing technologies for FSC certification
22 Avril 2010 03:55On 1 May 2010 FSC is launching a new project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), to assess the value of satellite remote sensing technologies in the FSC certification process. The ... Lire la suite...
Lakehead drop 'Forestry' from its faculty name
21 Avril 2010 07:42Perhaps due to a record low number of Forestry applications last year (see: Guess how many Ontario high school students applied to study Forestry this fall?), Lakehead University has decided ... Lire la suite...
Nearly half of Ontario's forestry sector assistance funding has yet to be designated
20 Avril 2010 19:47Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath wants to know why the Ontario government has yet to distribute forestry assistance funding that was announced five years ago. Through a freedom of information ... Lire la suite...
Fibrestick Manufacturing receives $100,000 in funding
20 Avril 2010 14:45Fibrestick Manufacturing is a small company in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario that manufactures value-added wood products. Today, the provincial government of Ontario has announced funding of $100,000 for Fibrestick Manufacturing through ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater wants to sell 4 idled mills to a scrap metal company
20 Avril 2010 12:15AbitibiBowater is seeking approval from the bankruptcy court to sell 4 paper mills in Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. AbitibiBowater believes it can recover at least $13.8 million from selling the following ... Lire la suite...
Former Nackawic workers sue the CAW - their former union
20 Avril 2010 12:03Former workers from the St. Anne's Nackawic Pulp Co. Ltd. pulp mill in New Brunswick are suing their former union, Canadian Auto Workers Local 219 and the national CAW body for ... Lire la suite...
Fewer tree planting jobs this year?
19 Avril 2010 19:31The Canadian Press is reporting that tree planting jobs may be scarce this year. In fact, they begin their article with "A summer job for students that has become as ... Lire la suite...
Georgia-Pacific receives approval from Investment Canada to acquire Englehart and Earlton facilities
19 Avril 2010 14:08Georgia-Pacific has received approval from the Minister of Industry for the acquisition of Grant Forest Products' Englehart and Earlton, Ontario facilities. The Minister reviews significant foreign investments in Canada to ... Lire la suite...
Significant Government Investments in Senneterre Power Station
19 Avril 2010 14:05Boralex Power Income Fund is pleased that its Senneterre, Québec power station project will benefit from significant investments by the federal and provincial governments. The $6 million project was developed ... Lire la suite...
Saskatchewan reconsiders Dutch Elm Disease funding
19 Avril 2010 08:52As a follow up to an earlier story, the province of Saskatchewan has reconsidered cutting all Dutch Elm Disease funding. The government has decided to reinstate a portion of the ... Lire la suite...
Howe Sound Pulp and Paper receives $6 million
18 Avril 2010 17:32A $6-million investment by the Government of Canada will enable Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Limited Partnership to improve its environmental performance and contribute to a more sustainable pulp and ... Lire la suite...
Major Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco prints on FSC certified paper
16 Avril 2010 06:19Itáu Unibanco is the first financial institution in Brazil to achieve FSC Chain of Custody (FSC CoC) certification for its own print unit. With 51 tons of paper used annually, ... Lire la suite...
Timber Retail Coalition launched to curb illegal logging
16 Avril 2010 05:49Leading European retailers Carrefour Group, Kingfisher, Marks & Spencer and IKEA launched the Timber Retail Coalition (TRC) on 6 April 2010 to ensure minimum ethical standards for all timber and wood products sold ... Lire la suite...
New mill manager in Fort Frances and Iroquois Falls
15 Avril 2010 19:16Derrick Lindgren, the new mill manager for AbitibiBowater's Fort Frances mill, will begin his new job on Monday. Derrick Lindgren is leaving his role as the manager at AbitibiBowater's Iroquois ... Lire la suite...
CEP signs deal with Sinar Mas regarding Mackenzie pulp mill
14 Avril 2010 09:49The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) has signed a deal with Sinar Mas (parent company of Asia Pulp and Paper) - the company that is purchasing the ... Lire la suite...
Tetra Pak will supply over 100 million FSC-labeled packages to Carrefour stores in France
14 Avril 2010 04:31Carrefour and Tetra Pak announced on 1 April 2010 that Tetra Pak will supply more than 100 million FSC-labeled carton packages to Carrefour stores across France during 2010. Before the end of 2012, Tetra Pak ... Lire la suite...
B.C. cuts forestry staff
13 Avril 2010 14:34The British Columbia provincial government has issued lay off notices to about 200 staff in the forests ministry. In addition, the forestry ministry field office in Prince Rupert will be closed. ... Lire la suite...
Saskatchewan cuts Dutch Elm Disease control program
12 Avril 2010 20:55The Saskatchewan government has decided to cut its 20 year old, Dutch Elm Disease control program. The cut will save the province $500,000 a year. Dutch elm disease is a fungus spread ... Lire la suite...
Peter Grant's unfinished mansion is for sale
12 Avril 2010 12:41Peter Grant, of Grant Forest Products, has had to put his unfinished house in Haileybury, Ontario on the market as a court-appointed sale. The house was going to be the ... Lire la suite...
Harmac mill in Nanaimo caters to a Chinese market
11 Avril 2010 18:58The Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, British Columbia is selling their pulp to Chinese customers - customers who have told them they are prepared to take whatever they can produce. ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper and the city of Powell River reach a tax agreement
09 Avril 2010 20:08Catalyst Paper and the City of Powell River have inked an agreement in principle to achieve the twin objectives of reducing the Class 4 property tax rate paid by the company's ... Lire la suite...
Buchanan wants to open more than just its Hudson mill
09 Avril 2010 06:52The Buchanan Group is indicating it wants to restart 3 of its 9 mills in Northwestern Ontario before the end of May. We had already heard of their plan to restart the ... Lire la suite...
Domtar's Kamloops mill receives $57.6 million for environmental upgrades
09 Avril 2010 06:41Domtar's Kamloops mill is receiving $57.6 million from the federal government under the Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program (PPGTP) for two capital improvement projects. The projects will allow the mill ... Lire la suite...
Softwood lumber tax for western sawmills could drop on May 1st
08 Avril 2010 10:22On May 1st, it is likely that the softwood lumber tax for western Canadian sawmills will drop from 15% to 10%. The tax rate is determined using a formula based on the ... Lire la suite...
$1 million for forest research in New Brunswick
07 Avril 2010 09:28There is a new a forest research partnership at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) called the Collaborative Research Partnership for Sustainable Forest Management, or the Forest Collaborative for short. ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper wants to reduce their labour costs by 25% - 30%
07 Avril 2010 07:23Catalyst Paper wants to roll back the labour costs at their four coastal pulp and paper mills by 25% - 30%. Richard Garneau, Catalyst Paper's president, said if the mills are to ... Lire la suite...
30 years later, Grassy Narrows still suffering from mercury poisoning
06 Avril 2010 20:0130 years after a Dryden paper mill dumped 20,000 pounds of mercury into the Wabigoon River, with the Ontario government's permission, the people of the Grassy Narrows First Nation and Wabaseemoong (Whitedog) ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's latest numbers
06 Avril 2010 18:04AbitibiBowater's fourth quarter losses in 2009 were $314 million, compared to $1,433 million in the fourth quarter of 2008. Sales decreased to $1,126 million from $1,617 in the fourth quarter of 2008. The decrease in sales was ... Lire la suite...
Tembec's sale of its French mills is good news for the company
06 Avril 2010 07:13Tembec will be able to reduce its debt and better ride the current wave of rising global pulp prices by selling two of its pulp mills in France. The sale ... Lire la suite...
Expropriating AbitibiBowater's assets in Newfoundland cost $8 million
06 Avril 2010 07:02The professional and legal fees related to the expropriation of AbitibiBowater's assets in Newfoundland have added up to over $8 million. The costs, covered by the Department of Natural Resources, includes ... Lire la suite...
McKenzie Forest Products restarts in Hudson, Ontario
05 Avril 2010 09:52Good news in Hudson, Ontario! The McKenzie Forest Products mill will reopen on May 31st. The mill has been shut down since October 2008. 75-80 people will be employed when the ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia Power and NewPage propose renewable co-generation project
05 Avril 2010 09:34Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI) and NewPage Port Hawkesbury Corp. (NewPage) today announced agreements to develop a new 60 MW biomass co-generation facility. The development entails an NSPI investment of $200 million. ... Lire la suite...
Results of the Eurocan Viability study
05 Avril 2010 07:51The Eurocan Viability Group hired Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting Inc. to study and report on the viability of the Eurocan Pulp and Paper mill in Kitimat, British Columbia. The ... Lire la suite...
SFK Pulp unveils turbogenerator project
02 Avril 2010 20:00SFK Pulp has unveiled a major turbogenerator project for their Saint-Félicien pulp mill in Québec. The project will be funded by the $20.9 million credit allocation from the Government ... Lire la suite...
Tembec is about to sell 2 kraft pulp mills in France
02 Avril 2010 19:43Tembec's European subsidiary, Tembec SAS, is in advanced negotiations with Paper Excellence B.V. for the sale of two Kraft pulp mills located in Tarascon and Saint-Gaudens, France. As currently ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey schedules 5 weeks of downtime
01 Avril 2010 09:44Bowater Mersey in Nova Scotia has scheduled 5 more weeks of downtime. Tentatively scheduled from April 15 to May 19, the shut down is being blamed on market conditions, including the high value ... Lire la suite...
ANOTHER chemical spill in Marathon?
01 Avril 2010 08:19Please let this be an April Fool's Joke. Thunder Bay's Chronicle Journal is reporting that another chemical spill has occurred into Lake Superior from Marathon, Ontario's dormant pulp mill. The ... Lire la suite...
Merger between Summit Forest Products Inc. and Canadian Wood Products - Montreal Inc.
01 Avril 2010 00:00Montreal, March 16th 2010, We are pleased to announce the merger of Summit Forest Products Inc. and Canadian Wood Products – Montreal Inc. effective April 1st 2010. Our companies share similar values: ... Lire la suite...
Fusion entre Summit Forest Products Inc. et Canadian Wood Products - Montréal Inc.
01 Avril 2010 00:00Montréal, 16 Mars 2010, Il nous fait plaisir d'annoncer la fusion entre Summit Forest Products Inc. et Canadian Wood Products – Montréal Inc. et ce, à compter du 1er Avril 2010. ... Lire la suite...
MP tables bill to put pensions first
31 Mars 2010 20:37John Rafferty, Member of Parliament representing the riding of Thunder Bay - Rainy River in northwestern Ontario, tabled a bill that aims to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act to ... Lire la suite...
Canadian court approves Georgia-Pacific acquisition of certain Grant Forest Products facilities
31 Mars 2010 20:11Georgia-Pacific learned today that the Canadian court overseeing the Grant Forest Products Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act case has approved Georgia-Pacific's acquisition of Grant's oriented strand board (OSB) facility at Englehart, ... Lire la suite...
Judge dismisses Newfoundland and Labrador's environmental claims against AbitibiBowater
31 Mars 2010 20:07A Quebec Superior Judge dismissed Newfoundland and Labrador's environmental claims against AbitibiBowater. The province wanted AbitibiBowater to clean up five sites that the company owns, or had once owned. The ... Lire la suite...
What do you think of EACOM's purchase of Domtar's wood products division?
31 Mars 2010 14:38Are you a Domtar employee? What do you think of EACOM's purchase of Domtar's wood products division? The community of Ear Falls, Ontario is excited about the news. Their Domtar ... Lire la suite...
Kruger's Corner Brook mill saved by government help
30 Mars 2010 09:18The government of Newfoundland and Labrador revealed in their budget, that they will cover $15.4 million of costs at Kruger's Corner Brook newsprint mill. The costs include replanting and forest management ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst responds to stronger market by restarting 2nd Crofton pulp line
30 Mars 2010 06:15Catalyst Paper has announced that it will restart the second line of pulp production at its Crofton NBSK kraft mill in early May, taking advantage of a stronger market. The ... Lire la suite...
Domtar to sell its forest products business to EACOM
29 Mars 2010 08:43Domtar Corporation has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its forest products business to EACOM Timber Corporation for CDN$80 million plus elements of working capital estimated ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst walks away from talks with the CEP
29 Mars 2010 07:58Catalyst Paper representatives have walked away from talks with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) on Saturday. The CEP had asked Catalyst Paper to meet with them for 3 days ... Lire la suite...
Who's responsible for Marthon's environmental mess? We'll have to wait to find out
28 Mars 2010 19:46An environmental hearing was scheduled to begin in May to determine who is responsible for the environmental clean-up of the dormant pulp mill in Marathon, Ontario. Tembec, who co-owned the ... Lire la suite...
Strathlorne forest nursery lays off 4
26 Mars 2010 13:08Four seasonal workers at the provincial Strathlorne forest nursery in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia had to be laid off recently due to the low sales for tree seedlings. The nursery ... Lire la suite...
Georgia-Pacific one step closer to closing purchase of some Grant Forest Products facilities
26 Mars 2010 11:57Georgia-Pacific moved one step closer to completing its acquisition of Grant Forest Products' oriented strand board (OSB) facility at Englehart, Ontario, the associated facility at Earlton, Ontario, and OSB facilities ... Lire la suite...
Court approves sale of AbitibiBowater's Mackenzie, B.C. assets to Conifex
26 Mars 2010 10:05A Quebec court has approved of the sale of AbitibiBowater's newsprint mill, planer, sawmill, and timber rights in Mackenzie, British Columbia, to Conifex. Some conditions still apply to the sale, ... Lire la suite...
Northern Ontario pulp mills could get energy rebate... if they were still operating...
26 Mars 2010 07:50Yesterday's Ontario provincial budget is providing an energy rebate to large industrial facilities in Northern Ontario. The plan is a three-year program that will provide electricity rebates of $150 million a ... Lire la suite...
Free Offer: Pulp & Paper International
26 Mars 2010 07:42Pulp & Paper International (PPI) is the leading magazine for pulp, paper and paperboard manufacturers in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. It offers the most ... Lire la suite...
Grant Forest Products puts Timmins OSB mill up for sale
26 Mars 2010 07:28Grant Forest Products has put its Timmins, Ontario oriented strand board (OSB) mill up for sale. Last June, Grant Forest Products applied for creditor protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement ... Lire la suite...
Steelworkers will initiate private prosecution against Weyerhaeuser for the death of a sawmill worker in 2004
25 Mars 2010 08:29The United Steelworkers will be launching a private prosecution in the Westminster Provincial Courthouse in British Columba today, alleging that the Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. was criminally negligent in the death ... Lire la suite...
PRT reports a net loss of $1.8 million in 2009
25 Mars 2010 07:40PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund has reported operating earnings of $2,555,000 and net losses of $1,829,000 ($0.19 per unit) as compared to operating earnings of $4,093,000 and net losses of $23,191,000 ($2.41 per unit) in 2008. Net ... Lire la suite...
Inquest investigates death of skidder operator in B.C.
24 Mars 2010 08:07Most people who log have rolled a skidder sometime in their life, but the skidder roll that claimed the life of logger Francis Tucker in 2007 was no ordinary roll. An ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timer granted permission to buy tree farm and forest license
24 Mars 2010 07:31The province of British Columbia has given permission for West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. to purchase a tree farm and forest license in the Kamloops Timber Supply Area. West Fraser ... Lire la suite...
Lumber exports to China grow
23 Mars 2010 07:32British Columbia's lumber exports to China grew at a record pace in 2009. Lumber exports to China hit 1.63 million board feet in 2009, more than twice the volume shipped in 2008. Those exports ... Lire la suite...
Workers closing in on deal to purchase the Pine Falls mill
23 Mars 2010 07:29A group of former workers of the idled Tembec paper mill in Pine Falls, Manitoba are closing in on a deal to take over the mill. Tembec wants a deal ... Lire la suite...
Atlantic Packaging Products closes newsprint recycling plant in Whitby
19 Mars 2010 12:33Atlantic Packaging Products has decided to close its recycled newsprint plant in Whitby, Ontario. The closure is being blamed on a drastic decline in demand in North America, the rising ... Lire la suite...
CEP meeting with Asia Pacific next week about Worthington Mackenzie mill
19 Mars 2010 07:50Jim Britton, the Western Region Vice President of CEP, said his union is meeting with officials from Asia Pacific next week. The two parties are interested in reaching a deal ... Lire la suite...
Kruger's mill managers in Corner Brook refuse bonuses
19 Mars 2010 06:09The mill managers at Kruger's paper mill in Corner Brook, Newfoundland do not want to accept all of their bonuses until the wages of their staff increase. The managers left 60% ... Lire la suite...
Fortress Paper agrees to acquire Thurso mill from Fraser Papers
19 Mars 2010 06:04Fortress Paper has signed an agreement to purchase the Thurso northern bleached hardwood kraft mill from Fraser Papers. Fortress Paper plans to convert the operation into a world class, low ... Lire la suite...
Kapuskasing's town workers freeze their own wages in support of mill workers
18 Mars 2010 19:04The members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Kapuskasing, Ontario - Local 369 - have preempted their upcoming contract negotiation by voting to freeze their own wages for a ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth suing 100 Mile House over taxes
18 Mars 2010 09:48Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has filed suit against the District of 100 Mile House as a protest against its taxes. Ainsworth is claiming the tax rates are illegal because they are ... Lire la suite...
Timberwest posts 2009 results
18 Mars 2010 08:02TimberWest is reporting that 2009 was its worst year on record for the company. Sales were $318.4 million in 2007, $163.7 million in 2008, and $150.3 million in 2009. TimberWest is reported a net loss of $55.4 million ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products Enters Into Letter of Intent With Capital Regional District
17 Mars 2010 20:22Western Forest Products Inc. has announced that it has entered in a non-binding letter of intent with the Capital Regional District of Victoria, British Columbia for the sale of certain ... Lire la suite...
What we know about the status of St. Marys Paper
17 Mars 2010 09:02Here are the latest facts coming from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario concerning the recent "indefinite shutdown" of St. Marys Paper. The boilers were shut down. The equipment in the mill ... Lire la suite...
Conifex buys AbitibiBowater's sawmill in Mackenzie, B.C.
17 Mars 2010 07:12Opinion 250 News is reporting that Conifex has purchased the AbitibiBowater sawmill and planer mill in Mackenzie, B.C. Since last October, the mill has only been running 1 shift with an ... Lire la suite...
Tolko will now plan to harvest without snow cover in the Brown's Creek Watershed
16 Mars 2010 19:40Tolko had originally planned to log in the Brown's Creek Watershed during the winter, but a road blockade by the Okanagan Indian Band prevented the company from accessing the area ... Lire la suite...
NewPage to Purchase Domtar Coated Groundwood Product Lines
16 Mars 2010 19:26NewPage Corporation (NewPage) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Domtar Corporation to purchase Domtar's coated groundwood paper product lines and book of business. The purchase follows Domtar's ... Lire la suite...
Interfor completes purchase of timber tenure in the Kamloops region
16 Mars 2010 07:05International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) has announced that it has completed the acquisition of a timber tenure in the Kamloops Region from Weyerhaeuser Company Limited following an extended period of ... Lire la suite...
Tentative deal between AbitibiBowater and Quebec Federation of Labour
14 Mars 2010 17:52AbitibiBowater has reached a tentative agreement with the Quebec Federation of Labour. The agreement took 9 days of negotiations to hammer out. The details have not been released, but do include ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater downtime in Iroquois Falls - 2 weeks
12 Mars 2010 11:43AbitibiBowater is shutting down 2 paper machines at its Iroquois Falls, Ontario mill for 2 weeks. Paper machine #1 and #8 will be shut down on March 21st and they are scheduled to be ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper trims loss to just $4.4 million in 2009
12 Mars 2010 08:01Catalyst Paper is saying that their "extraordinary cost reduction measures" allowed them to trim their company's losses for 2009, to just $4.4 million - down from a loss of $220 million in 2008. "We ... Lire la suite...
Concern over AbitibiBowater's plan to sell off Northern Ontario dams
11 Mars 2010 19:43The Ontario NDP Party raised the issue of AbitibiBowater's desire to sell off its dams in Northern Ontario in the legislature today. NDP members told the legislature that the dams ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater indefinitely idles paper machine at Thorold
11 Mars 2010 09:46AbitibiBowater is planning to indefinitely idle one of the two paper machines at its Thorold South facility in Ontario. 100 people will be laid off. The machine will be idled on ... Lire la suite...
United Steelworkers have ratified a 4 year agreeement with Canfor
10 Mars 2010 07:18United Steelworkers (USW) members employed by Canfor in 15 operations in the BC northern and southern interior regions have ratified a four-year collective agreement, retroactive to June 30, 2009. Members in USW Locals 1... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper proposes a plan that will see the Elk Falls paper mill restart
10 Mars 2010 07:11Catalyst Paper has announced that it resubmitted a proposal to the union that could allow for the restart of the Elk Falls paper mill at a labour cost, all in, ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products mill in Nanaimo may move to Harmac site
09 Mars 2010 10:10Western Forest Products currently leases land from the Nanaimo Port Authority for its downtown mill. The mill has been closed for a year. Talks are now underway that may see ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers Announces Name for the New Specialty Papers Business: Twin Rivers Paper Company
09 Mars 2010 09:14Fraser Papers Inc. has announced that the specialty papers business, to emerge from creditor protection under the company's restructuring proposal, will be named "Twin Rivers Paper Company". The new specialty ... Lire la suite...
St. Marys Papers lays off 300, production indefinitely curtailed
08 Mars 2010 18:15St. Marys Paper Corp. plans to curtail production of specialty Supercalendered paper grades on paper machine #5 at its groundwood pulp and paper mill in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario for an ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers' workers in Edmundston ratify pension deal
08 Mars 2010 11:18CEP members at Fraser Papers' Edmundston mill have voted 69.3% to ratify an agreement to change the pension plan and complete the conditions required for the company to restructure and emerge ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater and the CEP reach an agreement
07 Mars 2010 12:34After arduous negotiations, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) has agreed to a tentative agreement with AbitibiBowater to renew the collective agreement. This deal fulfills an essential ... Lire la suite...
Prince George Pulp moves into maintenance mode
06 Mars 2010 21:22A leak was discovered in the recovery boiler of the Prince George Pulp and Paper mill recently that has forced the company to immediately begin their maintenance downtime that was ... Lire la suite...
CEP doesn't like today's budget - it does nothing for forest workers or pensioners
04 Mars 2010 18:58"All political parties should vote to bring this government down now," says Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union President Dave Coles in reaction to today's budget. "Yet another budget, filled with ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reports quarterly net loss of $3.1 million
04 Mars 2010 07:23Western Forest Products has posted a net quarterly loss of $3.1 million for its fourth quarter of 2009, on sales of $139.3 million. Over the entire year of 2009, Western Forest Products posted a ... Lire la suite...
Tourism operators pleased Northern Pulp will reduce their stink
03 Mars 2010 07:53Northern Pulp in Nova Scotia has decided to invest $5 million in new equipment that reduce their pulp mill smell from impacting the tourism operators in the town of Pictou. The ... Lire la suite...
Transport Union strike in Finland will close UPM mills
03 Mars 2010 07:33Due to a strike by the Finnish Transport Worker's Union, UPM's paper mills in Finland are expected to close within the week. The strike is preventing the transportation of raw ... Lire la suite...
Will the earthquake in Chile shake up the pulp supply and drive up prices?
03 Mars 2010 07:29The deadly earthquake in Chile over the weekend resulted in the temporary shutdown of about 4.5 million metric tonnes/year of market pulp capacity. Chilean pulp mills have temporary closed due ... Lire la suite...
FSC Market and Policy Analysis - Surveys online until 22nd of March
02 Mars 2010 02:24Starting on February 24th, the FSC Policy and Standards Unit has launched a market and policy analysis by means of online questionnaires for certificate holders and market experts. The purpose ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia loans $75 to Northern Pulp to purchase land
01 Mars 2010 10:50Nova Scotia is loaning $75 million to help Northern Pulp purchase 475,000 acres of land. The land will be purchased from Neenah Paper and will ensure a wood supply to the Abercrombie, ... Lire la suite...
Tolko won court order, but will the roadblock come down?
01 Mars 2010 08:13On Friday, the British Columbia Supreme Court issued an order for the Okanagan Indian Band to remove their roadblock. Tolko Industries haven't been able to log in the Brown's Creek ... Lire la suite...
Sap is flowing in Cape Breton already
01 Mars 2010 08:01The mild weather has sap flowing in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia for two weeks already. Paul MacKenzie, of Highland Gold Maple Products, said he knew something was up in January ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth reports a net loss of $12.4 in their fourth quarter
26 Février 2010 08:43Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has released its 2009 fourth quarter and year end results. In their fourth quarter, Ainsworth recorded a net loss of $12.4 million, compared to a net loss of $156.7 ... Lire la suite...
Peter Grant opens up about the sale of Grant Forest Products
26 Février 2010 08:09Peter Grant, head of Grant Forest Products, spoke to Northern News about the sale of parts of his company to Georgia-Pacific. Grant very much wants Grant Forest Products to retain ... Lire la suite...
Chemical clean up is almost complete in Marathon
26 Février 2010 07:16Tembec officials, as the former operators of the Marathon Pulp mill in Ontario, say their winter contingency plans are reaching their final stages. 1.4 million litres of black liquor have been ... Lire la suite...
Government of Canada Invests $40 Million in Celgar's Green Energy Project
25 Février 2010 14:51A $40-million investment by the Government of Canada will enable one of Canada’s largest and most modern kraft pulp mills to generate clean, green energy from forest biomass. Colin ... Lire la suite...
15 layoffs at Kruger in Corner Brook, Newfoundland
25 Février 2010 14:47Fifteen people have been laid off in Corner Brook at Kruger's paper mill. All 15 are said to have been non-unionized managers. Earlier this month, the unionized workers voted to accept ... Lire la suite...
Tolko curtails Armstrong sawmill due to log shortage
25 Février 2010 10:52The record warm temperatures that have covered British Columbia this winter are forcing unseasonal closures to many harvest areas. This, combined with an ongoing legal dispute with the Okanagan Indian ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Files NAFTA Notice of Arbitration Seeks C$500 Million Compensation for Expropriation of Assets in Canada
25 Février 2010 09:03AbitibiBowater today filed a Notice of Arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA") with regards to the expropriation of its assets and rights in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ... Lire la suite...
White Birch Paper Company to Restructure Debt
24 Février 2010 20:50The White Birch Paper Company and its subsidiaries have announced that they have sought creditor protection in Canada under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act to preserve and maximize the value ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Receives Court Orders to Call for Employee and Other Creditor Claims
24 Février 2010 11:58AbitibiBowater announced today the Company has received approval for a process to call for employee and other specified creditor claims (the "Second Claims Process") by the Quebec Superior Court in ... Lire la suite...
Restructuring of AbitibiBowater could be hampered by environmental claims in Newfoundland & Labrador
23 Février 2010 21:33The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has issued 5 ministerial environmental claims that order AbitibiBowater to clean several sites. Some of these sites are still owned by AbitibiBowater but are not ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater has prospective buyer for Mackenzie, BC mills
23 Février 2010 20:39AbitibiBowater is in "advanced discussions" with a potential buyer for its two sawmills, and possibly its pulp and paper mill, in Mackenzie, British Columbia. The Mackenzie Pulp and Paper mill ... Lire la suite...
Fire at AbitibiBowater's Dalhousie paper mill
23 Février 2010 20:07There was a fire at the closed AbitibiBowater paper mill in Dalhousie, New Brunswick earlier this week. Thick black smoke could be seen bellowing from the mill on the morning ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp receives extension to creditor protection
23 Février 2010 19:40Terrace Bay Pulp received an extension to its creditor protection today. The company now has protection from its creditors until April 30th, 2010. Today in the Superior Court of Justice, documents ... Lire la suite...
Ball Packaging must help cover costs at Marathon Pulp
22 Février 2010 21:11As a former owner of Marathon Pulp, Ball Packaging is now among the companies that will share responsibility for the environment clean up in Marathon, Ontario. The Ministry of the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater marks 3 inactive sawmills in Quebec for sale
22 Février 2010 20:35In hopes of someday emerging from bankruptcy protection, AbitibiBowater has put 3 inactive sawmills in Quebec up for sale. The three sawmills are: Roberval Saint-Fulgence Lebel-sur-Quévillon Because AbitibiBowater is operating ... Lire la suite...
Okanagan Band sets up blockade to prevent Tolko's logging
22 Février 2010 20:22The Okanagan Indian Band set up a blockade this morning near the Brown's Creek Watershed to prevent Tolko Industries from moving logging equipment into the area. Chief Fabian Alexis said ... Lire la suite...
United Steelworkers reach tentative deal with Canfor
22 Février 2010 07:22The United Steelworkers are calling their tentative deal with Canfor, 'unprecedented' in the history of collective bargaining in the B.C. forest industry. Bob Matters, Chair of the United Steelworkers ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp update
19 Février 2010 12:07Workers for Terrace Bay Pulp in Ontario have been waiting a year now to see if their mill will be able to reopen. The workers will have to wait at ... Lire la suite...
Maritime Lumber Bureau dismisses U.S. complaint
19 Février 2010 09:21The Maritime Lumber Bureau dismissed a complaint this week from the U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports concerning aid the New Brunswick government gave to Miramichi Lumber Products. The ... Lire la suite...
NewPage reports net loss of $55 million in its fourth quarter
18 Février 2010 09:21NewPage Corporation has reported a net loss of $55 in its fourth quarter of 2009 on net sales of $857 million. For the full year 2009, net loss attributable to the company was $308 million, ... Lire la suite...
Mackenzie pulp mill attracts interest of Sinar Mas again
18 Février 2010 07:37Sinar Mas, the parent company of Asia Pulp & Paper, is taking a second look at the Mackenzie pulp mill. The mill is now under the control of the Mackenzie Pulp ... Lire la suite...
Okanagan Indian Band off-limits for Tolko's vehicles
17 Février 2010 09:16Tolko Industries has won a court decision to allow the company to log in Browns Creek on the west side of Okanagan Lake. But now Tolko will need to find ... Lire la suite...
Domtar's stock price on an "incredible run"
17 Février 2010 09:07Since reaching a low last March of $7.80, Domtar's stock price has soared to around $54. The stock has lost a little air since topping $62 in December, but its current range ranks ... Lire la suite...
Kenora Forest Products gets grant to look into biomass
16 Février 2010 09:53The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund is giving Kenora Forest Products a grant of $25,000. The company will use the money to conduct a feasibility study to look at the idea of ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber posts quarterly net loss of $20 million
14 Février 2010 10:26West Fraser Timber has posted a net loss of $20 million in its fourth quarter on sales of $647 million. 2010 is expected to be another challenging year for West Fraser's lumber and ... Lire la suite...
New staff members join the FSC team
12 Février 2010 11:35FSC is pleased to announce that three new staff members have joined its growing international team. Mr. Richard Robertson and Mr. Gregory Jean joined the Policy & Standards Unit on 18 January 2010 ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers, Brookfield meet union on pensions
12 Février 2010 10:05At this hour, Fraser Papers, Brookfield Asset Management, and the Government of New Brunswick are meeting with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada in Toronto. The meeting follows ... Lire la suite...
Interfor's results continue to improve, but still post net loss of $5 million
12 Février 2010 08:18Interfor, International Forest Products Limited, have posted a net loss of $5.0 million in its fourth quarter of 2009. These results can be compared to a net loss of $7.5 milliion in Interfor's ... Lire la suite...
New Advice Note clarifies conditions and benefits of contract work provided by FSC certified CoC contractors
11 Février 2010 03:37The FSC Policy and Standards Unit has released a new Advice Note (FSC-ADV-40-017) that details the benefits and implications of contract work being provided by FSC certified Chain of ... Lire la suite...
Canfor posts net quarterly loss of $17 million
10 Février 2010 20:09Canfor has reported a net loss of $17 million in their fourth quarter of 2009. The loss can be compared to a net loss of $5.2 million for the third quarter of 2009 and ... Lire la suite...
Tembec restructuring in Temiscaming
10 Février 2010 09:26Tembec is restructuring its operations at its Temiscaming mill in an effort to save money and remain competitive. "It is no secret that the forest products industry is in a ... Lire la suite...
Lakehead University seeks $36 million for forest research facility
10 Février 2010 07:24Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario is seeking $36 million from Ontario's provincial government to build a new forest research facility. The new facility would be called, "Biofor". It would be ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers workers agree to pay cut
09 Février 2010 15:04Fraser Paper's unionized workers at the Madawaska paper mill in Maine have agreed to a 8.5% wage cut. The new three-year labour agreement was ratified by United Steelworkers Locals 291, 365 and 1247. "The ... Lire la suite...
Collaboration strengthened between FSC and China
09 Février 2010 10:54The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Accreditation Services International (ASI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China (CNCA).... Lire la suite...
Weaver elected to Louisiana-Pacific's Board of Directors
09 Février 2010 07:27John W. Weaver, former executive chairman of AbitibiBowater, has been elected to Louisiana-Pacific's board of directors. Weaver is the former executive chairman of AbitiBowater Inc. He served as president and ... Lire la suite...
Chemicals have congealed at Marathon Pulp
06 Février 2010 08:12The clean-up at Marathon Pulp in Ontario will now have to wait until the spring. 1.4 million litres have been trucked to AbitibiBowater's mill in Fort Frances, and to the Clean ... Lire la suite...
Corner Brook workers agree to wage deferral
05 Février 2010 12:48All 8 of the unions at Corner Book Pulp and Paper in Newfoundland have voted in favour of a wage deferral request from Kruger Inc. Kruger asked the unionized workers to ... Lire la suite...
Closed Grand Falls-Windsor mill now in provincial custody
05 Février 2010 12:37The provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador has assumed custody and management of the former pulp and paper mill and property in Grand Falls-Windsor, as well as Grand Falls House ... Lire la suite...
Tolko president steps down
05 Février 2010 07:40Tolko president, Al Thorlakson, stepped down yesterday. Thorlakson is one of the richest lumberman in the country. Thorlakson took over as president from his father who formed the company over 50 ... Lire la suite...
Pine Falls workers refuse to support former employee's bid for the mill
05 Février 2010 07:32The workers of the idled Tembec newsprint mill in Pine Falls, Manitoba have refused to support a former employee's bid to buy the mill. On January 14th, J.P. Bradette, ... Lire la suite...
FSC welcomes Mayor of Bonn at the FSC International Center
05 Février 2010 04:09Mayor of Bonn Mr. Jürgen Nimptsch visited the FSC International Center in Bonn, Germany on 29 January 2009. The visit provided an opportunity for the recently-elected Mayor to learn about responsible ... Lire la suite...
PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund announces receipt of insurance cash settlement
04 Février 2010 18:47PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund today announced receipt of $4.6 million in insurance proceeds as cash settlement for damages to greenhouses resulting from an unusually heavy snowfall in December 2008, as previously ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey is back to full capacity
04 Février 2010 13:39The Bowater Mersey paper mill in Queens County, Nova Scotia, has returned to full capacity. Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada that represents 258 workers ... Lire la suite...
Domtar reports quarterly net earnings of $124 million
04 Février 2010 08:51Domtar is reporting a quarterly net profit of $124 million in its 4th quarter of 2009. In comparison, Domtar reported a net loss of $676 million in its 4th quarter of 2008. In the 4... Lire la suite...
World's first FSC certified African Blackwood generates new income for Tanzanian community
04 Février 2010 05:40Kikole village in Tanzania has sold the world's first harvest of FSC certified African Blackwood, intended for woodwind instruments in the UK. FSC certification has enabled the community to realize ... Lire la suite...
SIG completes FSC certification for all packaging sites
04 Février 2010 05:30The carton pack manufacturer SIG Combibloc has achieved FSC certification for all of its production sites and sales organizations worldwide. The company can now offer its international customers carton packs ... Lire la suite...
Registered Professional Foresters Association of Nova Scotia files complaint
03 Février 2010 10:25Jamie Simpson, forestry program coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre has been an outspoken critic of the some controversial biomass harvesting methods carried out in Nova Scotia. Simpson's photograph of ... Lire la suite...
International Paper reports net loss of $101 million in their 4th quarter
03 Février 2010 07:16International Paper has reported their preliminary full year, 2009 net earnings, along with their 4th quarter results. 2009 - net earning of $663 million 2008 - net loss of $1.3 billion In the fourth quarter ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater subsidiary files for bankruptcy in the UK
02 Février 2010 19:41AbitibiBowater's UK subsidiary, Bridgewater Paper Co Ltd (BPCL), has filed for administration (a form of bankruptcy in the UK, similar to a Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act filing in Canada or ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater restarts #5 in Thunder Bay
01 Février 2010 19:33AbitibiBowater is restarting its #5 paper machine in Thunder Bay, Ontario this week. The paper machine has been down for 6 months. The restart has brought 177 people back to work. The first ... Lire la suite...
Future of Forestry lies in diversification
01 Février 2010 12:02The Forest Products Association of Canada released a report today that looks at the future of forestry in Canada. Avrim Lazar, president of the association, said the forest industry needs ... Lire la suite...
Chinese company buys into Port Alice's Neucel Specialty Cellulose
31 Janvier 2010 13:23Zhejian Fulida Ltd., China's largest producer of rayon fibre, has bought an ownership stake in Port Alice's Neucel Specialty Cellulose. The deal will inject new capital and ownership into the ... Lire la suite...
Kapuskasing workers accept a 10% wage reduction
31 Janvier 2010 11:29The unions at Tembec's Kapuskasing mill have voted to accept a 10% reduction in wages. In the release, Coalition Leader Bob Pellow stated that the deal, which the press release called ... Lire la suite...
Norbord posts quarterly loss of $11 million
29 Janvier 2010 14:41Norbord Inc. has posted a quarterly result of $11 million. The loss in the final three months of the year was 63 per cent below the US$30 million loss reported in the ... Lire la suite...
Meeting in Bangkok advances FSC's exploration of forest carbon
29 Janvier 2010 11:41On 19-21 January 2010, the FSC Forest Carbon Working Group met in Bangkok to discuss upcoming priorities and provide input to the ongoing review of the FSC Principles and Criteria. The ... Lire la suite...
FSC extends consultation period for draft Congo Basin Standard
29 Janvier 2010 03:32FSC has extended the consultation period for the draft Congo Basin Sub-Regional Standard and invites all interested stakeholders to submit their comments before 15 March 2010. ... Lire la suite...
Kruger is extending the shutdown of PM#3 in Trois-Rivieres
28 Janvier 2010 10:36Kruger Inc. is extending the shutdown of the #3 paper machine at its Wayagamack Mill in Trois-Rivières, Quebec for a period of five weeks starting February 23rd. The machine was ... Lire la suite...
Tembec reports net loss of $9 million
28 Janvier 2010 09:42Tembec has reported a net loss of $9 million in its latest quarter on consolidated sales of $412 million. Sales were down this quarter - from $511 million in the comparable period of ... Lire la suite...
Half of UK timber and panel market now FSC certified
28 Janvier 2010 09:39The proportion of all timber and panel products produced in and imported to the UK that is FSC certified surpassed the 50% mark in 2008, according to a recent report by the ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers Proceeds With Finalizing Sale of Specialty Papers Business
28 Janvier 2010 08:02Fraser Papers Inc. has announced that, following the extended deadline of January 26, 2010, it had received no additional offers to purchase the Company's specialty papers business under the court supervised sale ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst announces departure of Chief Executive Officer
26 Janvier 2010 07:18Catalyst Paper has announced that Richard Garneau, the company's chief executive officer, will be leaving the company on April 28, 2010, following the company's annual meeting of shareholders. Mr. Garneau advised the ... Lire la suite...
Voting begins today at Kruger in Corner Brook
25 Janvier 2010 10:57Today the unionized workers at Kruger's newsprint mill in Corner Brook, Newfoundland will vote on a proposed deal that could see employees accept a 10% cut in pay and possible other ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater & CEP will resume negotiations in March
24 Janvier 2010 18:09Last week negotiations between the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) and AbitibiBowater temporarily adjourned until resume March 1. The adjournment comes after five days of union deliberations over ... Lire la suite...
Global Sticks hoping for a spring start-up
24 Janvier 2010 17:34Thanks to a pleasant winter in Thunder Bay, Ontario, construction on the Global Sticks new factory is progressing on schedule. "We really have to thank our weather gods for providing ... Lire la suite...
Tolko is confident sawmill in The Pas will reopen some day
23 Janvier 2010 08:43Tolko is confident its sawmill in The Pas, Manitoba will reopen some day, although it likely won't be in 2010. It's been a year since Tolko stopped producing lumber in The ... Lire la suite...
Fort Frances mill restarts operations
23 Janvier 2010 08:13AbitibiBowater was able to resume operations at its Fort Frances, Ontario mill this weekend after the problems with the effluent system was corrected. The mill was shut down indefinitely on ... Lire la suite...
Chemical plume spotted on Lake Superior
22 Janvier 2010 09:23A 50 metre long plume was spotted on Lake Superior near Marathon, Ontario - close to where pump and chemical trucks have been cleaning up after black liquor leaked from a ... Lire la suite...
Brazilian daily prints on FSC certified paper
22 Janvier 2010 04:11São Paulo's daily newspaper Metro is printed on FSC paper. With a circulation of over 150,000, Metro's decision to print on FSC certified paper is an achievement for the world's ... Lire la suite...
First book printed on FSC certified paper in China
22 Janvier 2010 03:48Picture book “The Great Paper Caper” by illustrator Oliver Jeffers is printed on FSC certified paper in China. Published by HarperCollins, the book has become a common sight in ... Lire la suite...
New 5 year agreement for Tembec's Chetwynd workers
21 Janvier 2010 09:54Tembec today announced that negotiations for a new collective agreement with CEP local 448 representing workers at its Chetwynd, B.C. high yield pulp mill have been successfully concluded. The new ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst idles Crofton paper machine, Coquitlam de-inking plant
21 Janvier 2010 09:28Catalyst Paper has announced that its Crofton No. 1 paper machine will be curtailed indefinitely due to weak newsprint and directory paper demand. The machine, which produces 140,000 tonnes of commodity grades ... Lire la suite...
Old Smurfit-Stone mill sold in Bathurst
20 Janvier 2010 10:49The Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. closed their corrugated paper mill in Bathurst, New Brunswick in August of 2005 putting 270 people out of work. Since then, the mill has sat vacant in the ... Lire la suite...
How did the vote go in Kapuskasing?
20 Janvier 2010 10:43On Sunday the unionized workers from the Tembec mill in Kapuskasing, Ontario were called to a meeting at the request of the company. Last week, the exact details of the ... Lire la suite...
MP Charlie Angus insists Grant Forest Products sale is not a done deal
20 Janvier 2010 10:27Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins-James Bay, is insisting that the purchase of Grant Forest Products assets by Georgia Pacific is not a done deal. Angus is not pleased that Georgia ... Lire la suite...
Layoff notices on their way to Pine Falls workers
20 Janvier 2010 10:19Now that the lock out has been declared over at Tembec's Pine Falls paper mill, layoff notices are on their way to the workers this week. Once a worker receives ... Lire la suite...
New trademark standard brings greater benefits to FSC Certificate Holders
20 Janvier 2010 09:24FSC has approved a new trademark standard that will ensure a greater consistency in the use of the trademarks in line with today's market needs. The standard will make it ... Lire la suite...
Wish you were a CEO?
20 Janvier 2010 08:05NewPage accepted the resignation of its president and chief executive officer (CEO), Richard D. Willett, Jr. this week. Willett will receive a severance payout equal to two times his current ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater in Fort Frances shut down indefinitely due to effluent problem
19 Janvier 2010 14:24The AbitibiBowater mill in Fort Frances, Ontario was shut down indefinitely this morning due to a problem with the mill's effluent treatment system. Jean-Philippe Cote, spokesman from AbitibiBowater, said the ... Lire la suite...
NewPage President And CEO Rick Willett Resigns
19 Janvier 2010 11:10NewPage Corporation today announced that Richard D. Willett, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, has resigned from NewPage effective January 18, 2010, and will remain with the company as a consultant through ... Lire la suite...
President of the B.C. Truck Loggers Association steps down
19 Janvier 2010 10:53Thomas Olsen has stepped down from his position of president for the British Columbia Truck Loggers Association. Olsen has also stepped down as an executive and director of Triumph Timber, ... Lire la suite...
White River Forest Products are eager to start up in 2010
19 Janvier 2010 06:33White River Forest Products is eager to start up the former Domtar sawmill in White River, Ontario in 2010. White River Forest Products is a three-way partnership between the Town of ... Lire la suite...
Another set back in the Marathon Pulp cleanup
17 Janvier 2010 15:50The chemical clean-up crews in Marathon, Ontario hit another snag this week when a leak was found in the seam on an indoor holding tank containing the black liquor. The ... Lire la suite...
Protest at Brookfield Energy in Gatineau
15 Janvier 2010 12:32About 30 pensioners from the closed Fraser Papers' Thurso pulp mill protested today at a Brookfield Energy office in Gatineau. The pensioners are upset that they could lose up to 40% of ... Lire la suite...
3 parties interested in purchasing Pine Falls
15 Janvier 2010 07:33There are at least 3 parties now interested in purchasing the Pine Falls paper mill from Tembec. The potential buyers are: J.P. Bradette, former Tembec vice-president Sagkeeng First Nation Tembec ... Lire la suite...
NewPage establishes buffer to protect rare lichen discovered in Cape Breton.
14 Janvier 2010 07:55NewPage Port Hawkesbury has established buffer zones in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to protect a large quantity of rare and endangered lichen. Tom Neily, a botanist with the Mersey Tobeatic ... Lire la suite...
Court ruling will allow Tolko to continue logging
13 Janvier 2010 19:51The British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled against the Okanagan Nation's bid to prevent Tolko from logging on the west side of Okanagan Lake. “We are pleased with the court’... Lire la suite...
Manitoba Labour Board orders end to Tembec's lockout in Pine Falls
13 Janvier 2010 19:17The Manitoba Labour Board has ordered an end to the 4.5 month lock out of the workers at the Tembec newsprint mill in Pine Falls, Manitoba. The workers were locked out ... Lire la suite...
Tembec workers in Kapuskasing are invited to vote on Sunday
13 Janvier 2010 19:03The unions representing the workers of Tembec in Kapuskasing, Ontario have been asked to a meeting on Sunday at the request of the company. The exact details of the request ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers/Brookfield scheme to shirk pension obligations
13 Janvier 2010 12:42Canada's largest forestry union says Fraser Papers restructuring plan is a deceptive scheme to get out of its financial obligations to pensioners. Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and ... Lire la suite...
Emergency situation in Marathon - Yet another chemical spill
12 Janvier 2010 17:20A third chemical spill since December occured in Marathon, Ontario on Sunday, and is continuing to leak at the rate of 1,200 litres per hour. The pipeline being used to transfer ... Lire la suite...
Georgia-Pacific to purchase Grant Forest Products OSB mills in Englehart and Earlton
11 Janvier 2010 13:58Georgia-Pacific Corp. has agreed to purchase two Canadian plants from Grant Forest Products Inc. along with two of Grant Forest Products' U.S. facilities in a deal worth about $400 million. ... Lire la suite...
Fire at AbitibiBowater's Fort Frances mill
11 Janvier 2010 12:27The AbitibiBowater mill in Fort Frances was the scene of a fire on Friday night. Fire fighters spent nearly 12 hours fighting the fire that started in the kraft mill. Heavy ... Lire la suite...
Two tree ID apps for your iPhone
11 Janvier 2010 10:44Does anyone have an iPhone? I just read about two tree identification applications for your iPhone. The Sarafax TreeBook is leaf based and developed for students unfamiliar with tree identification. ... Lire la suite...
With parliament prorogued, pension petitions wait
11 Janvier 2010 08:45The former mill employees of AbitibiBowater in Newfoundland met recently to present their petition in relation to pension issues to Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor MP Scott Simms for him to bring back ... Lire la suite...
Tolko extends downtime at Armstrong and Soda Creek
07 Janvier 2010 08:37Tolko scheduled two weeks of downtime as a holiday curtailment at its Armstrong and Soda Creek mills in British Columbia. Tolko has decided to extend that downtime for at least ... Lire la suite...
Dispute over chemical cleanup in Marathon continues
07 Janvier 2010 07:26In Marathon, the former owner of the bankrupt Marathon Pulp mill, Tembec, was ordered to clean up the chemicals left in the mill. The order, issued on Dec. 17, deals with ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater sells recycling facilities in Texas
06 Janvier 2010 08:28AbitibiBowater announced today the closing of the sale of its Recycling Division's material recycling facilities located in Arlington, Houston and San Antonio, Texas to Waste Management Recycle America for $12 million. ... Lire la suite...
Canfor to close the Quesnel sawmill next week
06 Janvier 2010 07:27Canfor Corp. is closing its sawmill in Quesnel by the end of next week. 180 workers will be out of work. The length of the closure is not known, but will ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia decides to buy land from J.D. Irving
05 Janvier 2010 13:22The province of Nova Scotia has decided to spend up to $40 million to buy land in southwest Nova Scotia and Cumberland County from J.D. Irving Ltd. and Rothesay Paper ... Lire la suite...
Alexandre Lemay & Sons sawmill destroyed by fire
05 Janvier 2010 09:52The Alexandre Lemay & Sons sawmill in St-Bernard, Quebec was destroyed by fire on Sunday. Firefighters fought the blaze for hours but the building was completely destroyed. A propane-powered generator is ... Lire la suite...
Demolition of Domtar's mill is a big tax hit to Prince Albert
04 Janvier 2010 05:56The Domtar mill in Prince Albert used to mean $1.8 million in tax revenue for the city, but now that the mill is about to be demolished, the city is bracing ... Lire la suite...
Court upholds TimberWest's petition of Campbell River tax bylaws aimed at its Managed Forest Lands
02 Janvier 2010 20:36TimberWest's petition in the BC Supreme Court to have the City of Campbell River's 2009 tax rates bylaw (as it relates to managed forest lands) set aside has succeeded. In the ... Lire la suite...
Acadian Timber Income Fund converts to a Corporation
01 Janvier 2010 14:48Acadian Timber Corp. has announced the completion of the conversion of Acadian Timber Income Fund to a corporation named Acadian Timber Corp., pursuant to a plan of arrangement under the ... Lire la suite...
Details of the contract settlements in Chetwynd
28 Décembre 2009 18:02A few more details of the labour contracts in Chetwynd are now public. Canfor and Tembec are both planning to restart their mills in Chetwynd, British Colubmia soon following successful ... Lire la suite...
Zellstoff Celgar pulp starts paying taxes
24 Décembre 2009 08:24$470,000 will be immediately paid to Castlegar, British Columbia from its number one employer. The Zellstoff Celgar pulp mill had engaged in a tax standoff with the city. The company has ... Lire la suite...
Lax Kw'alaams band wants the former Skeena Cellulose pulp mill
24 Décembre 2009 07:37The Lax Kw'alaams band is one of the 6 parties bidding on the former Skeena Cellulose pulp mill site on Watson Island, British Columbia. The Skeena Cellulose pulp mill closed in 2001. ... Lire la suite...
Tembec Denies Pine Falls Workers Severance, EI and Workplace Rights
23 Décembre 2009 16:22Locked-out members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 3 - 1375, at the Tembec Manitoba Newsprint operations in Powerview-Pine Falls, unanimously rejected a company proposal Tuesday to change the lockout to a layoff ... Lire la suite...
FSC closed for the holidays
23 Décembre 2009 11:14The FSC offices in Bonn will be closed for the holidays starting 24 December 2009. Normal business hours will resume on 4 January 2010. Happy Holidays from all of the staff at FSC.... Lire la suite...
Executive Update from Andre de Freitas - December 2009
23 Décembre 2009 08:29Dear FSC members and other stakeholders, This month's executive update brings you an overview of FSC's development in 2009. It is by no means comprehensive, but I hope you will find ... Lire la suite...
Mill towns can set their own industry tax rate
22 Décembre 2009 08:56The British Columbia Supreme Court has reinforced the right for a mill town to set their own industrial tax rate. Yesterday, the B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Voith dismissed ... Lire la suite...
Congo Basin Sub-Regional Standard consultation launched
16 Décembre 2009 11:15On 9 November 2009 at a meeting in Yaounde, Cameroon, on the future of FSC certification in the Congo Basin, FSC Executive Director Andre de Freitas announced the launch of the latest ... Lire la suite...
FSC Germany receives ‘Oscar for sustainability' – the Utopia Award 2009
16 Décembre 2009 04:14On 28 November 2009, FSC Germany received the Utopia Award 2009 for its outstanding work in promoting responsible forest management. ... Lire la suite...
Regional Council of FSC National Initiatives in the Congo Basin and West Africa meets for the first time
15 Décembre 2009 10:44FSC National Initiatives (NI) from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, The Democratic Republic of Congo, The Republic of Congo and The Ivory Coast attended the first meeting of the Regional ... Lire la suite...
Luxury packaging follows fashion industry trend toward FSC certified paper
11 Décembre 2009 03:45The US luxury packaging company PAK 2000 has pledged to release a new paper policy that will give preference to FSC certified and recycled products. The move follows a growing trend ... Lire la suite...
FSC Denmark showcases its ‘Home Green Home' in Copenhagen
11 Décembre 2009 03:11On 3-6 December 2009, FSC Denmark showcased their “Home Green Home” project at the Copenhagen Climate Exchange in the run up to the UN COP-15. Covering 200 square foot, the house ... Lire la suite...
FSC Netherlands celebrates 10th anniversary
09 Décembre 2009 03:28FSC Netherlands celebrated the 10th anniversary of their foundation with close to 200 representatives from NGOs, businesses and government at an event in The Hague on 26 November 2009. ... Lire la suite...
Join FSC at COP15 in Copenhagen
04 Décembre 2009 05:29Please join the Forest Stewardship Council, the Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas de Guatemala and the Rainforest Alliance for a side event at COP 15 in Copenhagen.... Lire la suite...
Dutch newspaper printed on FSC certified paper
03 Décembre 2009 06:32Dutch newspaper “Het Financieele Dagblad” (FD) is one the first daily newspapers in the world printed on FSC certified paper. With 2.5 million kilos of paper used every year, FD's ... Lire la suite...
FSC's René Ngongo awarded ‘Alternative Nobel Prize'
27 Novembre 2009 14:11On 4 December 2009, Mr. René Ngongo, FSC's Contact Person in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), will receive the Right Livelihood Award for his outstanding vision and work in the Congo ... Lire la suite...
Taiga Building Products Ltd. Announces Leadership Succession Plan
27 Novembre 2009 14:11The Board of Directors of Taiga Building Products Ltd. announced today that they have appointed the next generation of Taiga's Executive Vice Presidents, effective January 1, 2010. Trent Balog will step into ... Lire la suite...
PRT Announces Nursery Closure and Site Consolidation
27 Novembre 2009 14:11Pacific Regeneration Technologies Inc. ("PRT") announced today that it will discontinue seedling production at PRT Kirkland Lake, its nursery facility in Northeastern Ontario, for an indefinite period until market conditions ... Lire la suite...
Tembec wants to sell its two kraft mills in Europe
27 Novembre 2009 14:11Tembec Inc. today confirmed that Tembec SAS, its European subsidiary, has retained the services of investment bankers Houlihan Lokey to review strategic options for the two Kraft pulp mills held ... Lire la suite...
Tolko closing High Level sawmill in Alberta
27 Novembre 2009 14:11Tolko has decided to indefinitely close its High Level mill in Alberta due to the poor lumber market. 290 employees will be out of work. Another 300 woodlands contractors and their employees ... Lire la suite...
Prince George and Mackenzie benefit from Job Opportunities Program
27 Novembre 2009 14:11The Job Opportunities Program is investing $1.56 million in job creation for Prince George and Mackenzie, British Columbia. The Program targets job creation for pine beetle mitigation, hazard tree management, seed ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater gets court approval to switch ocean shippers
27 Novembre 2009 14:11A Quebec judge has given AbitibiBowater approval to switch ocean shippers carrying its paper to offshore markets. The switch will save $12.1 million over five years. “We’re trying to save ... Lire la suite...
Sale of AbitibiBowater's Belgo mill approved
27 Novembre 2009 14:11A judge has approved the sale of AbitibiBowater's Belgo pulp and paper mill in Shawinigan, Quebec to Recyclabe Arctic Beluga Inc. The mill has been idle since February 2008. Although the ... Lire la suite...
Ontario launches wood supply competition
27 Novembre 2009 14:11Ontario is searching for innovative ways to use logs, branches and other wood in Crown forests for manufacturing or other commercial purposes. This will help create green jobs and new ... Lire la suite...
FSC welcomes two new staff members
24 Novembre 2009 15:41FSC is pleased to welcome two new staff members to its international team. Mr. Thomas Colonna has joined FSC as a Communications Officer since 16 September 2009 and Ms. Britta Garfield will ... Lire la suite...
New Managing Director of Accreditation Services International
24 Novembre 2009 15:41FSC is pleased to announce that Sam B Ponder has been leading Accreditation Services International (ASI) as Managing Director since 1 November 2009. ASI is the independent accreditation body which delivers accreditation ... Lire la suite...
New FSC report highlights strengths of FSC Controlled Wood standards
24 Novembre 2009 15:41A recently released FSC report reveals the outcomes of an analysis between the schemes, systems and standards of FSC, PEFC, and the PEFC-endorsed schemes PEFC Germany and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (... Lire la suite...
WFC meeting brings FSC forward in Latin America
24 Novembre 2009 15:4118 October 2008 – FSC representatives met with the Minister of the Environment of Costa Rica (MINAET), Jorge Rodriguez, and other representative of Latin American organizations at the World Forestry Congress to ... Lire la suite...
Director of FSC Czech Republic leaves after nine extraordinary years
24 Novembre 2009 15:41Mr. Michal Rezek has resigned from the position of Director of the Czech FSC National Initiative after nine years of working at the organization. Mr. Rezek will leave office before ... Lire la suite...
FSC National Initiatives in Latin America set priorities towards network
24 Novembre 2009 15:41The World Forestry Congress (WFC) gave opportunity for FSC National Initiatives (NIs) from Latin America to gather for a strategic meeting. With support from GTZ in relation to the FSC/... Lire la suite...
Domtar sells millionth ton of FSC certified paper
24 Novembre 2009 15:41Domtar Corporation in the US has reached a significant milestone with the sale of its millionth ton of FSC certified paper. This achievement is a direct result of the commitment ... Lire la suite...
Forest Carbon Working Group issues report of first meeting
24 Novembre 2009 15:41The Forest Carbon Working Group (FCWG) has issued a report of their first meeting. Representatives from economic, social and environmental organizations in the North and South participated in the meeting ... Lire la suite...
FSC US announces winners of Designing & Building with FSC Awards 2009
24 Novembre 2009 15:41On 12 November 2009, FSC US announced the winners of the 5th annual Designing & Building with FSC Awards at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix, US, the world's largest green ... Lire la suite...
FSC launches revised Dispute Resolution System
24 Novembre 2009 15:41FSC has launched a new Disputes Resolution System that will enable a consistent and timely evaluation of complaints and appeals raised by stakeholders against decisions, performances or any other issues ... Lire la suite...
Howard Hampton questions Ontario's $25 million loan to Terrace Bay Pulp
24 Novembre 2009 15:41Howard Hampton, MPP of Kenora, had serious questions for Forestry Minister Michael Gravelle regarding the provincial government's $25 million loan to Terrace Bay Pulp. Hampton wanted to know what the government ... Lire la suite...
Kenora and Rainy River Districts warned of severe fire risk
24 Novembre 2009 15:41The risk for a large forest fire remains in the Kenora and Rainy River districts of northwestern Ontario. Back in May, Aviation and Forest Fire Program Officer Terry Popowich said ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater trying to avoid big tax bill
24 Novembre 2009 15:41AbitibiBowater is juggling its corporate structure to avoid a big tax bill. Unless AbitibiBowater is able to repay a $250 million loan between its Canadian and U.S. subsidiaries, the company ... Lire la suite...
Ever wonder how gravity affects the formation of wood?
24 Novembre 2009 15:41If so, soon you may have your answer! 24 willow saplings from derived from clones of trees in Fredericton, New Brunswick and Truro, Nova Scotia are now in space!! The saplings ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst and Island Co-gen reach arbitration settlement
24 Novembre 2009 15:41Catalyst Paper has announced that it has settled the arbitration proceeding relating to its 20-year Energy Services Agreement with Island Cogeneration # 2. Inc. (Cogen). This arbitration was a result of Catalyst's ... Lire la suite...
In addition to the $25 million, Terrace Bay receives an extension to its creditor protection
24 Novembre 2009 15:41Terrace Bay Pulp received more good news this week, in addition to the $25 million loan from the province of Ontario, they also received an extension of 90 days for their court-ordered ... Lire la suite...
Jim Flaherty will meet with AbitibiBowater and the CEP
24 Novembre 2009 15:41Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has agreed to meet with the management of AbitibiBowater and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) concerning the company's pension shortfall. Flaherty encouraged the two ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia restoring forests damaged by the spruce bark beetle
24 Novembre 2009 15:41The provincial government of Nova Scotia is restoring forests in Cape Breton's Mabou Highlands ravaged by the spruce bark beetle. The Department of Natural Resources has authorized the harvesting of ... Lire la suite...
Financials - Abitibi Consolidated vs. Bowater
20 Novembre 2009 07:19AbitibiBowater has released separate financial numbers for its subsidiaries: Bowater Inc. and Bowater Newsprint South LLC Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and AbitibiBowater US Holding LLC Here are some of the numbers for ... Lire la suite...
Ontario will give Terrace Bay Pulp $25 million
19 Novembre 2009 18:33Yves Fricot, legal counsel for the Buchanan Group of Companies, has told the media that the provincial government of Ontario is about to give Terrace Bay Pulp a $25 million loan. ... Lire la suite...
CEP's pension plan for AbitibiBowater continues to draw mixed reactions
19 Novembre 2009 07:13Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union (CEP) has been visiting with AbitibiBowater's mill communities to discuss their idea of replacing the existing pension fund pool for mill workers with a new ... Lire la suite...
Tolko closing most of its central B.C. operations for Christmas
19 Novembre 2009 07:03Tolko Forest Industries has scheduled two weeks of downtime for its central British Columbia operations over Christmas (December 18 - January 4). Other companies, including Canfor, have planned a similar schedule of ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia gives NewPage a $5 million loan
18 Novembre 2009 14:39The province of Nova Scotia is assisting a major paper producing facility and an important employer for Cape Breton with working capital for its Port Hawkesbury mill. A $5-million, interest-bearing ... Lire la suite...
Tembec reports quarterly net loss of $17 million
18 Novembre 2009 10:03Tembec has reported a net loss of $17 million or $0.17 per share of its last quarter, compared to a net loss of $4 million or $0.04 per share in the September 2008 quarter. For ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater - Latest Financial Information
17 Novembre 2009 14:20AbitibiBowater is reporting a net quarterly loss of $511 million. Excerpts from AbitibiBowater's Financial Filings: Sales decreased $639 million, or 36.9%, from $1,730 million in the third quarter of 2008 to $1,091 million in the third ... Lire la suite...
Stella-Jones reports quarterly net earnings of $8.3 million
16 Novembre 2009 20:52Stella-Jones has reported net quarterly earnings of $8.3 million, up 21.5% from last year. Sales in the third quarter reached $104.7 million, a decrease of $7.2 million, or 6.4% from last year's sales of $111.8 million, ... Lire la suite...
More people questioning the logic of burning trees for power
16 Novembre 2009 20:34Dan Leger, director of news content for The Chronicle Herald, published a column today about NewPage's plan to burn trees to produce power to sell to Nova Scotia Power. What? ... Lire la suite...
Cascades faces 2 more pollution charges
16 Novembre 2009 19:44Cascades Canada Inc. is facing 2 more pollution related charges involving an incident in 2007 at its Trenton Norampac pulp and paper mill. The Ontario Ministry of the Environment alleges the company ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia sends one tree to Boston a year. This year it's a white spruce.
16 Novembre 2009 13:19Nova Scotia continued its annual tradition of thanking the people of Boston for their help during the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion. Every year since 1971, a Christmas tree is chosen ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber may sell its Kitimat mill
14 Novembre 2009 12:58West Fraser Timber recently closed their Eurocan mill in Kitimat, British Columbia. An unnamed Chinese company is already interested in the mill. West Fraser has agreed to open the mill's ... Lire la suite...
Paper machine #6 in Fort Frances is still operating
14 Novembre 2009 12:45There has been good news in Fort Frances, Ontario. AbitibiBowater's paper machine #6 has been operating longer than expected to due to more customer orders. “When we started up right after ... Lire la suite...
Buchanan Forest Products is officially bankrupt
14 Novembre 2009 12:24Buchanan Forest Products, of Thunder Bay, Ontario, has officially gone bankrupt. The company has declared: Total Liabilities of $43,024,883 Total Assets of $15,194,789 Yves Fricot, legal counsel for Buchanan, said the company ... Lire la suite...
Superior Fine Papers appeals environmental work order
12 Novembre 2009 19:10In July, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) notified Superior Fine Papers, and the former owners of their facility: Thunder Bay Fine Papers and Cascades, that they were required ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia helps Ligni Bel lumber mill to reopen
12 Novembre 2009 13:55The province of Nova Scotia is contributing to the reopening of Ligni Bel, a lumber mill in Scotsburn, Pictou County. A $3 million loan guarantee, through the Industrial Expansion Fund, will ... Lire la suite...
Will Fraser Papers pensioners lose up to 40% of their pension benefits?
12 Novembre 2009 13:43More than 1,000 retired paperworkers could lose up to 40% of their pension benefits as another major pulp and paper company - Fraser Papers - seeks to cut its debt on the ... Lire la suite...
11 Novembre 2009 10:04
Even though West Fraser Timber has closed its Eurocan mill in Kitimat, the company will hold on to Eurocan's tree farm licenses. Barry Dobbin, district manager for the Ministry of ... Lire la suite...
Canadian wood rebuilds school destroyed by earthquake
10 Novembre 2009 14:32Federal and provincial officials today unveiled a plaque commemorating the opening of Xiang’e Primary School in China’s Sichuan Province. The event celebrated Canada and B.C.’s contributions ... Lire la suite...
NewPage posts quarterly loss of $138 million
10 Novembre 2009 08:43NewPage Corporation has announced its results of operations for the third quarter of 2009. Net sales were $791 million in the third quarter of 2009 compared to $1,126 million in the third quarter of 2008, ... Lire la suite...
Ontario announces silviculture job stimulus program
09 Novembre 2009 18:01The Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry has announced $6 million forest renewal program. Through the Forestry Futures Trust committee, the provincial government is inviting Sustainable Forest License Holders ... Lire la suite...
Stella-Jones Advises of Minor Interruption at Its New Westminster, B.C. Facility Due to Fire
09 Novembre 2009 08:40Stella-Jones Inc. has advised that its New Westminster, British Columbia, facility was the scene of a fire on Friday, November 6 which has resulted in a temporary shutdown of two wood ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers Completes Modernization Project Announces Restart at Plaster Rock Lumbermill
06 Novembre 2009 18:52Fraser Papers Inc. announced today that its lumbermill in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick is scheduled to restart operations on November 16, 2009. Approximately 175 employees have been recalled to work. The Plaster Rock ... Lire la suite...
06 Novembre 2009 07:35
The Government of Canada is investing in new commercial opportunities for Canada’s forest sector to ensure a competitive future for the industry, creating jobs and stimulating the economy. Today, ... Lire la suite...
Cascades posts net earnings of $34 million
06 Novembre 2009 07:31Cascades has posted results for its 6th consecutive quarter of improved results. Net earnings of $0.35 per share ($34 million) were posted compared to a net loss of $0.07 per share ($7 million) in ... Lire la suite...
Talks break down in Pine Falls after just one day
06 Novembre 2009 07:23Talks between Tembec and the United Steelworkers Union regarding the 260 locked out workers at the Pine Falls, Manitoba mill broke down after just 1 day. "We were scheduled to meet in ... Lire la suite...
2 jobs created in Grand Falls-Windsor to manage crown forests
06 Novembre 2009 07:13Two new positions have been established in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland to help the province manage the crown land that was previously managed by AbitibiBowater. The new Crown lands management officer ... Lire la suite...
Ainsworth Lumber reports quarterly net earnings of $21.6 million
06 Novembre 2009 07:05Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. has reported its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. During the third quarter of 2009, Ainsworth's three active OSB mills operated at capacity, taking no ... Lire la suite...
Logging dispute continues near Vernon, B.C.
05 Novembre 2009 08:54Tolko really wants to log the trees damaged by the mountain pine beetle in the Browns Creek Watershed near Vernon, B.C. The Okanagan First Nations believes the area is ... Lire la suite...
PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund posts net loss of $1.4 million
05 Novembre 2009 07:26PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund has announced results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2009. For the nine month period, the Fund reported operating earnings of $1,271,000 and Cash Available for Distribution ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser Timber posts loss of $198 million in their third quarter
05 Novembre 2009 07:07West Fraser Timber has posted a loss of $198 million in its third quarter. A large portion of the loss is related to the closure of the Kitimat paper mill in ... Lire la suite...
U.S. may stop black liquor tax credits to pay for health care
04 Novembre 2009 06:54U.S. House members are looking to stop the black liquor tax credits received by American pulp and paper companies at the end of the year. Legislation introduced this week ... Lire la suite...
Electrical fire at Decker Lake Forest Products
04 Novembre 2009 06:44Decker Lake Forest Products, owned by Hampton Affiliates, suffered a recent electrical fire at their lumber mill in British Columbia. "The fire occurred in a control box in the cut ... Lire la suite...
NewPage in Nova Scotia just got permission to cut trees for fuel
03 Novembre 2009 19:37The new NDP government in Nova Scotia has just granted permission for NewPage to cut down trees on Crown land to use for fuel rather than for fibre. NewPage is ... Lire la suite...
CEP pension info sessions in Kenora and Fort Frances
03 Novembre 2009 18:58Leaders of Canada’s largest forestry union and senior officials of Canada’s largest forest company, AbitibiBowater, met yesterday with Ontario Forest Minister Mike Gravelle and finance department officials to ... Lire la suite...
Auction of AbitibiBowater Iroquois Falls Woodlands equipment
03 Novembre 2009 18:48This Thursday, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers will have the complete dispersal of AbitibiBowater's Iroquois Falls Woodlands up for auction. The auction will include mobile construction and forestry equipment, a large quantity ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper posts quarterly net earnings of $13.2 million
03 Novembre 2009 15:06Catalyst Paper has recorded net earnings of $13.2 million ($0.03 per common share) on sales of $263.4 million for the third quarter of 2009 compared to a net loss of $1.9 million ($0.01 per common share) ... Lire la suite...
Mackenzie Pulp Mill Development Corp. takes over mill
03 Novembre 2009 14:55A new company, Mackenzie Pulp Mill Development Corp., has reached an agreement to take possession of the Worthington Mackenzie pulp mill for the next 6 months. Mackenzie Pulp Mill Development Corp. ... Lire la suite...
CEP union officials have a plan to wipe out AbitibiBowater's pension deficit
03 Novembre 2009 14:34CEP union officials have a plan to wipe out AbitibiBowater's pension shortfall, but the plan requires new government legislation. Marvin Pupeza, national representative for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union, ... Lire la suite...
Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute receives $150,000 from Nova Scotia
03 Novembre 2009 12:36The Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources has announced funding of $150,000 for the Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute. The Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute is a non-profit co-operative based in Kempt, Nova ... Lire la suite...
Western Forest Products reports quarterly net loss of $16.6 million
03 Novembre 2009 06:54Western Forest Products Inc. has announced results for their third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Western Forest Products reported a net loss for the third quarter of 2009 amounting to $16.6 million ($0.04 per share), ... Lire la suite...
Record low fire season in Northwestern Ontario
02 Novembre 2009 19:39Northwestern Ontario saw a record low number of forest fires year with only 194 fires. Last year the region saw 218 forest fires - a number still considered as very moderate. Although ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers posts net quarterly loss of $65.1 million
02 Novembre 2009 18:55Fraser Papers Inc. has just reported financial results for the third quarter ended October 3, 2009. The net loss in the third quarter totaled $65.1 million or $1.30 per share compared to a loss ... Lire la suite...
02 Novembre 2009 17:55
Clément Gignac, Quebec's economic development minister, said the province may consider investing in AbitibiBowater, if the company and its unions would make "sacrifices" and cut costs by $50 to $75 U.... Lire la suite...
Forestry union leaders meet with governments to protect pensions
02 Novembre 2009 12:27Leaders of Canada's largest forestry union (the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union) and senior officials of Canada's largest forest company, AbitibiBowater, are meeting today at 1pm with Ontario Forest Minister ... Lire la suite...
Production at Tembec's Canal Flats, BC sawmill affected by small fire
02 Novembre 2009 11:58Tembec today confirmed that a fire occurred at its sawmill in Canal Flats, British Columbia. The fire was discovered at 10:30 Saturday evening and was quickly contained. Damage was restricted to ... Lire la suite...
John Weaver resigns from AbitibiBowater's Board of Directors
02 Novembre 2009 11:45AbitibiBowater announced today the resignation, for personal reasons, of John W. Weaver from the Company's Board of Directors. This departure was formally accepted and took effect on October 31, 2009. "John was ... Lire la suite...
40% wage cut likely not enough to reopen Ainsworth Savona and Lillooet mills
01 Novembre 2009 14:39Ainsworth Lumber officials recently met in British Columbia with representatives of United Steelworkers Local 1-417 to discuss the possibility of getting the specialty mill at Savona and a feeder mill ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers' Edmundston mill may have brighter future with NB's power deal
01 Novembre 2009 14:14Peter Gordon, CEO of Fraser Papers Inc. believes that the Edmundston mill will benefit from the province's decision to sell NB Power's assets to Hydro-Québec. The deal will see ... Lire la suite...
CEP Press Conference in Thunder Bay on Monday
01 Novembre 2009 14:00The Communication Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) have scheduled a news conference for Monday regarding Thunder Bay's AbitibiBowater operations. The news conference is expected to touch on a number of ... Lire la suite...
Canfor posts net loss of $5.2 million
30 Octobre 2009 09:27Canfor Corporation has reported its results for the third quarter of 2009. The ongoing downturn in the U.S. housing market continued to significantly impact Canfor’s financial performance in the ... Lire la suite...
Domtar reports net earnings of $183 million
30 Octobre 2009 07:41Domtar Corporation has reported net earnings of $183 million ($4.24 per share) for the third quarter of 2009 compared to net earnings of $48 million ($1.12 per share) for the second quarter of 2009 and net ... Lire la suite...
Norbord posts quarterly loss of $7 million
30 Octobre 2009 07:29Norbord Inc. has reported a loss of $7 million or $0.16 per share in the third quarter of 2009. Norbord recorded losses of $18 million or $0.42 per share in the prior quarter and $18 million ... Lire la suite...
Negotiations with AbitibiBowater suspended over pensions
30 Octobre 2009 07:24The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) and AbitibiBowater have agreed to suspend negotiations for a new collective agreement in order to secure commitments from government that pensioners will be ... Lire la suite...
Columbia Forest Products wants its Hearst mill to survive
29 Octobre 2009 08:59Columbia Forest Products is continuing to invest in its Hearst, Ontario facility, to better its chances of survival. The company has invested more than $500,000 to upgrade equipment at the mill, ... Lire la suite...
Newsprint price to increase
29 Octobre 2009 08:43The RISI forest products information service also reports that AbitibiBowater, White Birch, Kruger, and Tembec are seeking to boost newsprint in two $25/metric ton installments on Nov. 1 and Dec. 1. Catalyst ... Lire la suite...
West Fraser closes Kitimat mill
29 Octobre 2009 08:37West Fraser Timber is closing its Eurocan paper mill in Kitimat, British Columbia on January 31st, 2010. 535 people will lose their job. After years of cost cuts and reviews of Eurocan's ... Lire la suite...
Brown spruce longhorn beetle spreads, despite quarantine
28 Octobre 2009 08:30The brown spruce longhorn beetle is spreading in Nova Scotia despite the efforts of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and their quarantine efforts. "It attacks spruce, but it prefers ... Lire la suite...
Babine Forest Products announces downtime
28 Octobre 2009 06:20Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake, British Columbia has announced downtime. The closure schedule is as follows: First 2 weeks of November Last 3 weeks of December The curtailment will include sawmill, ... Lire la suite...
FSC approves HCVF-Controlled Wood Risk Assessment for Swiss Alpine forests
27 Octobre 2009 12:14On 1 October 2009, FSC approved a national risk assessment to help companies avoid sourcing FSC Controlled Wood from areas of high conservation value in the Swiss Alpine forests. FSC Switzerland has ... Lire la suite...
Northeastern Ontario worries about fate of Grant Forest Products
26 Octobre 2009 14:00Many people from Northeastern Ontario are worried that a foreign company will take over the ownership of Grant Forest Products and their large OSB mill in Englehart. Grant Forest Products ... Lire la suite...
26 Octobre 2009 12:29
FSC is pleased to announce that Ms. Sarah Banda will start as Membership Officer starting from 1 November 2009.... Lire la suite...
Canfor Pulp Income Fund reports net income of $8.5 million
26 Octobre 2009 07:17Canfor Pulp Income Fund (the Fund) announced today its third quarter 2009 results as well as the results of Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (the Partnership) in which the Fund has a 49.8% ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater and the CEP Union scheduled talks start next week
23 Octobre 2009 21:06AbitibiBowater and the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers (CEP) Union are meeting next week to begin 17 days of scheduled talks. The union represents 5,000 current and 13,000 retired AbitibiBowater employees in Ontario, Quebec ... Lire la suite...
Timberwest quarterly results are modestly better
23 Octobre 2009 09:00TimberWest generated modestly better earnings and distributable cash this quarter as compared to last quarter despite extremely weak business conditions. While log prices are not showing any improvement yet, and ... Lire la suite...
Okanagan First Nations move to block logging by Tolko
23 Octobre 2009 08:35Okanagan First Nations does not want Tolko to log an area that they feel is culturally significant. Tolko Industries, based in Vernon, B.C., plans to begin harvesting timber at ... Lire la suite...
Ear Falls sawmill scheduled to close next week, planer will follow in December
23 Octobre 2009 08:17In August, Domtar announced its intention to close the Ear Falls, Ontario sawmill indefinitely. Operations will wind down at the sawmill next week. The planer mill will close next - ... Lire la suite...
Free Offer: Chemical Engineering Magazine
23 Octobre 2009 07:39Chemical Engineering serves chemical engineering professionals in the chemical process industry including manufacturing, engineering, government, academia, financial institutions and others allied to the field serving the global chemical process industry. ... Lire la suite...
Interfor's results improve with earnings of $9.7 million
23 Octobre 2009 07:28Interfor has posted net earnings of $9.7 million for the third quarter of 2009. These earnings significantly improve upon last quarter's reported net loss of $15.0 million. Included in the results for the ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers receives extension to creditor protection period
22 Octobre 2009 21:05Fraser Papers received an extension to their creditor protection from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice under the CCAA (Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act). This extension is through December 4, 2009 and was ... Lire la suite...
New Policy Manager of FSC Forest Carbon and Climate Change program
22 Octobre 2009 10:06FSC is pleased to announce that Stefan Salvador assumes the role of Policy Manager of FSC's new work program "Forest Carbon and Climate Change" starting from October 2009.... Lire la suite...
Should Canada be worried about the new U.S. green energy subsidy?
21 Octobre 2009 12:59There is significant concern that the newly proposed U.S. green energy subsidy could be used by American forest companies to give them a final and overwhelming advantage in the ... Lire la suite...
Talks break down between Tembec and its Union in Pine Falls
21 Octobre 2009 08:03250 workers at the Tembec mill in Pine Falls, Manitoba have been locked out since September 1st. Mediation talks have broken off again between Tembec and the United Steelworkers union. The ... Lire la suite...
Paragon Wood Products reopens Lumby mill
21 Octobre 2009 07:57Paragon Wood Products has reopened its Lumby sawmill in British Columbia. The mill on Shuswap Avenue had been closed for 1 year. Before the mill was focused on cedar, but now ... Lire la suite...
Mayor of Buenos Aires commits to FSC certified wood and paper by 2010
21 Octobre 2009 07:04... Lire la suite...
Newfoundland and Labrador ask the court to see AbitibiBowater's financial information
20 Octobre 2009 21:26The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has asked the Quebec Superior Court for access to AbitibiBowater's data room in order to keep tabs on its financial health as a creditor. ... Lire la suite...
FSC celebrates two major milestones at the World Forestry Congress
20 Octobre 2009 13:51... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater starts shift at Mackenzie planer mill
19 Octobre 2009 14:57AbitibiBowater has started up a shift at its planer mill in Mackenzie, British Columbia today. In addition, the company hopes to have one of its sawmills up and running in ... Lire la suite...
Rising dollar is not good news for our Christmas tree growers
19 Octobre 2009 13:07The sharp rise in the Canadian dollar in recent days is not welcome news to our Christmas tree growers who export their product to the United States. Bill Kilfoil grows ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper loses court battle over tax bill in North Cowichan
19 Octobre 2009 11:59Catalyst Paper has lost its lawsuit against the community of North Cowichan, British Columbia. Catalyst Paper did not want to pay its tax bill, arguing that they were being overcharged ... Lire la suite...
Clermont, Quebec newsprint machine gets 10 week reprieve
19 Octobre 2009 11:52A 10 week reprieve for the Clermont, Quebec newsprint machine has delayed unemployment for about 120 employees. AbitibiBowater had scheduled the indefinite idling of of two machines in Clermont, Quebec for this ... Lire la suite...
Tolko curtails veneer production in Kelowna
18 Octobre 2009 20:22Tolko has curtailed the production of veneer at its operations in Kelowna, British Columbia. The curtailment was effective October 15th. The operating stance of the mill will be revisited on ... Lire la suite...
18 Octobre 2009 20:01
AbitibiBowater has agreed to keep the heat on at the recently closed Beaupré mill near Quebec City if the local group of union leaders and politicians requesting the heat agrees ... Lire la suite...
Louisiana-Pacific schedules 3 months of downtime in Dawson Creek
18 Octobre 2009 19:28Louisiana-Pacific has announced 3 months of downtime at its OSB mill in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. The mill will be closed for December, January, and February. The scheduled downtime is adjustable ... Lire la suite...
Worthington Mackenzie mill taken over by consortium
18 Octobre 2009 15:22The province of British Columbia is no longer maintaining the Worthington-Mackenzie pulp mill in Mackenzie, B.C. The province has made the site safe by disposing of the most toxic ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp receives another extension
16 Octobre 2009 22:24Terrace Bay Pulp in Ontario has received another extension to their creditor protection period. Yves Fricot is the legal counsel for the Buchanan Forest Products, the mill's owners. He said ... Lire la suite...
Port Mellon - 100 years of paper making
14 Octobre 2009 21:12One hundred years ago today the machines rumbled into life at the isolated little community of Port Mellon and produced the first paper in BC made from wood. A century ... Lire la suite...
Belgian Aid Agency awards FSC Belgium as the best organization for sustainable trade
14 Octobre 2009 03:47... Lire la suite...
Revised Spanish FSC forest management standard approved
14 Octobre 2009 03:37FSC has approved a revised version of the Spanish forest management standard following a rigorous assessment process. With improvements to the requirements for plantations in Spain, the revised standard is ... Lire la suite...
Paper Machine #6 gets short reprieve in Fort Frances
13 Octobre 2009 19:48AbitibiBowater is running its Paper Machine #6 in Fort Frances, Ontario for a short time. PM#6 will be operational until mid-November to meet orders. The machine had been down since early ... Lire la suite...
Reminder: FSC invites participation in 2009 Market Survey
13 Octobre 2009 09:00FSC is calling for FSC certified enterprises as well as non-certificate holders to participate in the 2009 Market Survey before 19 October 2009. The online survey is available in seven languages.... Lire la suite...
The Breakdown: Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program
12 Octobre 2009 21:32Twenty-four companies, representing 38 pulp and paper mills across Canada, have qualified for credits under the Government of Canada’s Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program. Company Name Credits Abitibi-Bowater - ... Lire la suite...
FSC GEF project brings new resources to smallholders in the tropics
12 Octobre 2009 03:30At a sub-regional workshop in Cameroon, FSC presented the outcomes of the GEF project and offered valuable input to the FSC standard-development process currently in motion in the Congo Basin. ... Lire la suite...
24 mills qualified for Canada's black liquor program
09 Octobre 2009 13:36Twenty-four pulp and paper mills have qualified for Canada's version of the United States' black liquor program. Unlike the U.S. program, Canada requires the qualifying mills use the money ... Lire la suite...
It is getting cold. Will someone please heat our idled mills?
09 Octobre 2009 08:41It is a concern shared by several communities across our country - will anyone heat our idled/shuttered mills or will the valuable mill equipment be destroyed by our cold ... Lire la suite...
Will AbitibiBowater emerge from creditor protection?
08 Octobre 2009 12:53The possibility that AbitibiBowater may not be able to emerge from creditor protection has been whispered between us all for months. Now that possibility is appearing more often in the ... Lire la suite...
FSC Russia launches its first awareness campaign
08 Octobre 2009 05:43The FSC Russia National Office in collaboration with WWF Russia and several other partners have launched a campaign to increase recognition of FSC in Russia. The campaign is the first ... Lire la suite...
08 Octobre 2009 05:34
FSC invites stakeholders in the US and around the world to comment on a revised draft of the Forest Certification Benchmark published by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). Interested ... Lire la suite...
FSC Executive Update - October 2009
08 Octobre 2009 04:21Dear FSC members, This is the FSC Director update for the month of October 2009. The highlights of this past month are: FSC Policy and Standards: The month of September was ... Lire la suite...
Enligna is expanding its wood pellet mill in Nova Scotia
07 Octobre 2009 12:50Enligna Canada, a wood pellet manufacturer, is expanding its production capabilities in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia to meet international demands. The province, through Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), is supporting ... Lire la suite...
New Managing Director of FSC Global Development
07 Octobre 2009 10:00FSC is pleased to announce that Zoltan Paksy will lead FSC Global Development (FSC GD) as Managing Director starting 1 October 2009. ... Lire la suite...
Silviculture investment continues in Newfoundland's central region
07 Octobre 2009 08:09The provincial government of Newfoundland is investing in the future forests of central Newfoundland by funding site preparation and tree planting. “The forest industry is extremely important to the central ... Lire la suite...
Smooth Rock Falls rallies to save mill site
06 Octobre 2009 21:55As demolition continues at the Tembec mill site in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario, the residents of the community decided to express their anger and frustration yesterday by blocking the entrance ... Lire la suite...
Grassy Narrows First Nation in Superior Court tomorrow
05 Octobre 2009 20:55The Grassy Narrows First Nation finally will have their case heard in the Ontario Supreme Court starting tomorrow. For years the Grassy Narrows First Nation, located 80km northeast of Kenora ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater and United Steelworkers reach agreement. Mackenzie sawmill to restart
05 Octobre 2009 19:56AbitibiBowater and the United Steelworkers have reached an agreement allowing 60 workers to go back to work at the sawmill in Mackenzie, British Columbia for 3-4 months. One sawmill and one ... Lire la suite...
Boralex and AbitibiBowater reach agreement over the Dolbeau power station
03 Octobre 2009 08:37The Boralex Power Income Fund has come to an agreement in principle with AbitibiBowater on the temporary operation of the Dolbeau power station, conditional on the agreement of the controller ... Lire la suite...
Will Canfor Pulp reduce the odour it produces in Prince George?
02 Octobre 2009 08:44Canfor Pulp Ltd. Partnership has a plan for reducing the odour that is produced from its mills in Prince George, British Columbia, but they have not yet decided if they ... Lire la suite...
New Brunswick pulp mills are waiting for Ottawa's pockets to open
02 Octobre 2009 08:25Back in June Ottawa announced a Canadian green funding program for pulp and paper producers to off-set the advantage U.S. mills were experiencing from the U.S. black liquor ... Lire la suite...
Tolko's Creekside planer mill is running again - for 3-4 weeks
30 Septembre 2009 11:56Tolko has restarted its Creekside planer this week putting 20 previously laid-off workers back to work. The planer will operate for the next 3-4 weeks. The mill had been curtailed in ... Lire la suite...
MNR says they can't allocate fibre to Smooth Rock Falls
30 Septembre 2009 11:42The town of Smooth Rock Falls in northeastern Ontario is trying to recreate its economic base after Tembec has closed the mill in town in 2006. A co-operative initiative was underway ... Lire la suite...
New accreditation standards to strengthen FSC certification system
29 Septembre 2009 14:54FSC has approved a set of accreditation standards that will raise the quality of the FSC certification process to a higher level. The standards will ensure a greater consistency in ... Lire la suite...
International trade tribunal rules against Canada
28 Septembre 2009 19:06The U.S. can continue to collect collect duties on lumber imports from certain provinces. That is according to an international trade tribunal ruling today in London, England. The tribunal ... Lire la suite...
Christopher Parlow has been found
28 Septembre 2009 18:11Christopher Parlow, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1-324 from The Pas, Manitoba has been found alive and well in Kingston, Ontario. Parlow has been missing for 3 weeks. A public ... Lire la suite...
Kruger closing Corner Brook mill for 2 weeks
28 Septembre 2009 07:44Kruger is closing its newsprint mill in Corner Brook, Newfoundland for 2 weeks starting on October 12th. The move reflects weak markets and the impact of a high Canadian dollar on ... Lire la suite...
Global Sticks Inc. opening in Thunder Bay
25 Septembre 2009 14:16New Canadian company Global Sticks Inc. will build a state-of-the-art factory in Thunder Bay, Ontario to manufacture Ontario wood and create sticks used for ice cream bars, popsicles, corn dogs, ... Lire la suite...
Tembec's sale of Temrex complete
25 Septembre 2009 13:01Tembec has concluded the sale of its 50% equity interest in Temrex Forest Products LP (“Temrex”) to subsidiaries of Société générale de financement du Québec (“SGF”) for $11.6 ... Lire la suite...
Have the beetles won in Alberta too?
25 Septembre 2009 12:51The mountain pine beetles have moved into northeastern Alberta. Officials are surveying the devastation in the northeast. Ted Morton, Alberta's sustainable resource minister, recently said, "We are doing a good ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater wants to sell its mill in Lufkin, TX
24 Septembre 2009 13:44AbitibiBowater wants to sell its plant in Lufkin, Texas that was permanently idled in December 2007. AbitibiBowater is seeking court approval to sell the mill to CIT Partners LLC. The plant ... Lire la suite...
Fire in St. John at Irving Pulp and Paper
24 Septembre 2009 07:25There was a fire in Irving Pulp and Paper's sulphur tank yesterday in St. John, New Brunswick. The Saint John Fire Department said there were concerns that a cloud of ... Lire la suite...
Catalyst Paper's plan to reopen mill hits snag with union local
24 Septembre 2009 06:50Catalyst Paper's plan to reopen the Elk Fall's mill has been rejected by one of the mill's union locals. The other local is expected to respond to the proposal within ... Lire la suite...
Domtar wants to sell assets
24 Septembre 2009 06:38Domtar wants to sell $150 million worth of assets, including its forest products business, to reduce its debt and to focus on its core business. Domtar president John Williams said that ... Lire la suite...
Did the beetles win?
22 Septembre 2009 13:32"The mountain pine beetle epidemic is largely over. The bad news is that it's because they don't have any food left to eat. The vast majority of our pine stands ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia invests in Bowater Mersey
22 Septembre 2009 12:04The province is investing in the sustainability of a major employer and exporter in Nova Scotia's paper products industry. Bowater Mersey Paper Company Ltd. is receiving $2.5 million to support the ... Lire la suite...
New streamlined FSC standards bring greater benefits to Group Certification
22 Septembre 2009 06:40... Lire la suite...
Happy National Forest Week
21 Septembre 2009 20:31National Forest Week is an opportunity for all Canadians to reflect on the natural beauty of our forests and their vital contribution to our prosperity and well-being. Today, the Honourable ... Lire la suite...
B&Q to source only FSC certified tropical hardwood plywood
21 Septembre 2009 05:13... Lire la suite...
Town of Pine Falls show support for locked out mill workers
18 Septembre 2009 13:08The people of Pine Falls, Manitoba are showing their support for the close to 300 locked out workers of their Tembec mill today. The townspeople are joining the locked-out workers for ... Lire la suite...
Domtar sells 4,069 ha of woodlands to SGF
18 Septembre 2009 12:57Societe generale de financement du Quebec (SGF) has purchased 4,069 hectares of woodlands from Domtar, for $8.5 million. The woodlands are located near Grande Vallee in the Gaspe Peninsula of eastern Quebec. ... Lire la suite...
Please vote for FSC as CSO representative for the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board
18 Septembre 2009 11:56Dear members, The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has submitted its application as Civil Society Organisation from a developed country to serve on the Policy Board of the UN-REDD Programme [i]. ... Lire la suite...
Mediator appointed to address dispute at Tembec's Pine Falls mill
18 Septembre 2009 07:20The Manitoba Government has appointed Michael Werier as a mediator to address the labour dispute at Tembec's Pine Falls newsprint mill that resulted in the locking out of 270 employees for ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater suspends production at 5 plants
17 Septembre 2009 18:02AbitibiBowater has just announced its intent to suspend production at the following plants: Beaupre, Quebec's digital printing paper plant - will completely shut down - 340 jobs lost Clermont, Quebec - ... Lire la suite...
WWF study reveals importance of FSC certification in survival of great apes
17 Septembre 2009 09:14... Lire la suite...
New Brunswick's paper mill power subsidy over budget
16 Septembre 2009 19:46The power subsidy the New Brunswick government put in place for paper mills has gone over budget by $1.3 million over the last 2 years. The subsidy gives the province's paper mills ... Lire la suite...
Christopher Parlow is missing
16 Septembre 2009 19:28Christopher Parlow, president of the United Steelworkers Local at the Tolko Industries sawmill in The Pas, Manitoba has not been in contact with family, friends or co-workers since Sept. 9, according ... Lire la suite...
Will Prince Rupert take over ownership of the old Skeena-Cellulose mill?
16 Septembre 2009 07:50The old Skeena-Cellulose mill, now owned by SunWave Forest Products, owes between seven and eight million dollars in taxes, penalties and interest to the city of Prince Rupert. SunWave Forest ... Lire la suite...
Worthington Mackenzie mill deal is dead
15 Septembre 2009 14:31The proposed deal for China's United Petroleum Group to purchase the Worthington Mackenzie mill has fallen apart. The deal has apparently fell apart over an estimated $20 million in outstanding costs ... Lire la suite...
15 Septembre 2009 03:56
FSC has facilitated the last of five regional meetings with representatives of indigenous and traditional peoples worldwide as part of the consultation process on the FSC Principles and Criteria (P&... Lire la suite...
Talks resume between the USW and CONIFER today
14 Septembre 2009 13:22The United Steelworkers (USW) and the Council on Northern Interior Forest Employment Relations (CONIFER) are back at the bargaining table today. Today is the first round of talks since CONIFER ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater's unionized woodland workers in Thunder Bay finalize cost cutting agreement
14 Septembre 2009 12:58The United Steel Workers (USW), who represents the unionized woodland workers at AbitibiBowater's mill in Thunder Bay, Ontario have announced that their workers have voted 72% in favour of a deal ... Lire la suite...
14 Septembre 2009 07:33
FSC would like to remind its members to vote for three candidates running for the FSC Board of Directors. FSC has extended the election deadline and requests members who have ... Lire la suite...
Worthington Mackenzie pulp mill may soon have a new Chinese owner
13 Septembre 2009 12:35The United Petroleum Group of China, one of China's largest private oil companies, is close to purchasing the idled Worthington Mackenzie pulp mill for a rumoured $20 million. Worthington Mackenzie purchased ... Lire la suite...
Terrace Bay Pulp's creditors await decision
12 Septembre 2009 20:45The creditors of Buchanan Forest Products' Terrace Bay Pulp were in court in Thunder Bay, Ontario this past week making their cases known to the judge. The pulp mill filed ... Lire la suite...
Harmac's second line will be operating at full capacity by Monday
11 Septembre 2009 19:50Nanaimo Forest Product's Harmac pulp mill's second production line is up and running and is expected to be operating at full capacity by Monday. President Levi Sampson said almost all ... Lire la suite...
FSC approves Controlled Wood Risk Assessment for Chilean plantations
11 Septembre 2009 05:38On the 18 August 2009, FSC approved the national risk assessment for sourcing FSC Controlled Wood from plantations in Chile. The risk assessment is mandatory for all companies sourcing FSC Controlled Wood ... Lire la suite...
Larger forest holdings qualify for FSC SLIMF certification in Honduras
11 Septembre 2009 04:31... Lire la suite...
FSC invites comments on final report from review of conversion policy
10 Septembre 2009 09:51A team of experts focused on the issue of conversion in the FSC Plantations Review has released a final report for consultation. FSC invites all interested stakeholders to comment on ... Lire la suite...
Hampton Affiliates and Burns Lake Native Development Corporation talk wood supply with B.C.
09 Septembre 2009 08:02Hampton Affiliates and the Burns Lake Native Development Corporation met recently with the District Manager of Forests and Range to discuss the Lakes Timber Supply Area (LTSA). The timber supply ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater Receives Court Orders to Call for Creditor Claims
08 Septembre 2009 14:44AbitibiBowater has received approval for a process to call for creditor claims (the "Claims Process") by the Quebec Superior Court in Canada and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater finalizes sale of Quebec hydro asset - for $615 million
04 Septembre 2009 14:50AbitibiBowater has finalized a deal to sell its Manicouagan power plant for $615 million to a newly created joint venture formed by Hydro-Quebec and Alcoa Inc., the aluminum company. This transaction ... Lire la suite...
Details of Ontario's shift of Forestry from the MNR to the MNDMF
03 Septembre 2009 20:50Wondering how the shift of the Forestry from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry will work? Now we have details: From ... Lire la suite...
Tembec will sell 50% of Temrex Forest Products
03 Septembre 2009 17:51Tembec today concluded an agreement to sell its 50% equity interest in Temrex Forest Products LP and its general partner Gestion PFT Inc., (collectively “Temrex”) to Société générale ... Lire la suite...
Kitwanga Lumber has been purchased by Pacific BioEnergy
03 Septembre 2009 13:10Pacific BioEnergy Corporation (PBEC) has hopes of expanding its wood pellet and biomass energy business by purchasing the assets of Kitwanga Lumber Company (KLC). The Kitwanga Lumber Company stopped operating ... Lire la suite...
Forced liquidations possible now that Forest & Marine is in receivership
02 Septembre 2009 12:09Now that the Forest & Marine Group has gone into receivership, the loans of up to 35 contract loggers on B.C.'s coast will be called in. “There’s going ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater completes sale of 121,000 hectares of Quebec timberlands
02 Septembre 2009 11:52AbitibiBowater announced today that it has completed the sale of approximately 121,000 hectares (300,000 acres) of private timberlands in Quebec, Canada, for C$53 million in cash. AbitibiBowater plans to use the proceeds ... Lire la suite...
New survey targets FSC demand from smallholders in Europe
02 Septembre 2009 08:42In addition to the current Market Survey 2009, FSC has launched a focused short survey that aims to collect data on the demand for FSC certified material from small holders in ... Lire la suite...
FSC Forest Carbon Working Group to set upcoming priorities
02 Septembre 2009 03:34... Lire la suite...
Ontario's Forests. Ontario's Future.
01 Septembre 2009 14:27The public will play a key role in helping Ontario’s forest industry balance economic success with sustainable practices. Released on August 27th, 2009, Ontario’s Forests, Ontario’s Future is ... Lire la suite...
Canada's forest and paper sector losses slowed in Q2 of 2009: PricewaterhouseCoopers
01 Septembre 2009 11:54Canada's forest, paper & packaging (FPP) sector continued to be negatively impacted by the global economic downturn during the second quarter of 2009. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) quarterly net earnings ... Lire la suite...
Tembec has sold its Mattawa sawmill for $1
01 Septembre 2009 11:00Tembec's permanently closed sawmill in Mattawa, Ontario, along with its 55 hectare site, has been sold to the Mattawa Bonfield Economic Development Corp. for $1. The Development Corporation plans to advertise the ... Lire la suite...
Tembec locks out employees at Pine Falls
01 Septembre 2009 08:40Tembec today confirmed that it has locked out employees at its Pine Falls newsprint mill following a failure to reach a new collective agreement. Site management and mill employees worked ... Lire la suite...
Two union locals voted in favour of AbitibiBowater's agreement in Thunder Bay
31 Août 2009 17:36CEP Locals 257 and 39 voted in favour of AbitibiBowater's new proposed agreement on Saturday. The agreement outlined provisions, including recall, should the No.5 paper machine restart in Thunder Bay. "If the ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater wants to reduce energy costs in Thunder Bay
31 Août 2009 14:21AbitibiBowater's company officials are talking to the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) about the possibility of a co-generation plant. AbitibiBowater has a green-energy application filed with the OPA that would, if ... Lire la suite...
Newfoundland and Labrador invests in sawmill industry
31 Août 2009 09:28The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has recently invested in two sawmill companies: Holson Forest Products and Burton’s Cove Logging and Lumber Limited. Holson Forest Products will receive $10 million ($7 ... Lire la suite...
Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited donates timber rights in Main River area to new provincial park
31 Août 2009 07:43Kruger's Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited has donated the timber rights of 49 km2 to the creation of the new Main River Waterway Provincial Park in Newfoundland. Not only did ... Lire la suite...
Sexton Lumber Company receives provincial loan
29 Août 2009 03:01The Sexton Lumber Company, of Lethbridge, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, will be receiving a $2.25 million loan from the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial government. The interest-free loan will be used by the ... Lire la suite...
Tembec plans to lock out workers at Pine Falls newsprint operations
28 Août 2009 20:00In an all-out effort to take away some 35% in wage and benefit concessions from United Steelworkers and Canadian Office and Professional Employee Union members, Tembec Inc. negotiators have informed the ... Lire la suite...
Silviculture funding announced for Nova Scotia
27 Août 2009 19:43$14 million in silviculture funding was announced today for Nova Scotia by the provincial and federal government. Hundreds of new jobs are expected to be created to thin, tend, and replant ... Lire la suite...
Nova Scotia helps N.R. Kenney Logging with $500,000
27 Août 2009 07:36A commercial logging business in Pictou County, Nova Scotia is getting help from the province to maintain jobs and continue to provide forest products to mills in Nova Scotia and ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater plans to restart paper machine in Fort Frances
27 Août 2009 07:12AbitibiBowater is planning to restart the #6 Paper Machine in Fort Frances, Ontario for 3 weeks of orders. The restart will begin on September 8th. Paper Machine #6 has been down since March 6... Lire la suite...
Globe and Mail specifies FSC in new procurement policy
27 Août 2009 06:47... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater contract talks will start in late October
26 Août 2009 19:35Officials representing the unionized workers at AbitibiBowater's mill in Thunder Bay, Ontario met with the company today in Ottawa. A CEP spokesperson said the discussion helped establish a timetable for ... Lire la suite...
United Steelworkers Interior Bargaining Committee launches website
26 Août 2009 09:15The United Steelworkers Interior Bargaining Committee has launched a new website - www.dealwithsteel.ca - to support the union's collective bargaining in the BC Interior forest industry. The website ... Lire la suite...
Tembec calls Pine Falls employees back a week early
26 Août 2009 09:12All workers at Tembec's Pine Falls newsprint mill in Manitoba were called back to work a week earlier than expected. "They got some new orders," Cam Sokoloski, president of Local 3... Lire la suite...
Abitibi Consolidated's old sulphite plant comes down in Kenora
26 Août 2009 07:36Abitibi Consolidated's sulphite plant was torn down yesterday in Kenora, Ontario. The old recycling plant and a couple of warehouses are the only other remaining buildings still standing on the ... Lire la suite...
TFT-Fondation Chirac event calls for greater support for FSC
26 Août 2009 07:23The construction industry can play a fundamental role in promoting the use of FSC certified timber, emphasized speakers at a Fondation Chirac and TFT event in the French Quai Branley ... Lire la suite...
Steelworkers Ratify New Agreement With Tolko Industries
25 Août 2009 19:53Today the United Steelworkers Local 1-324 Sawmill, and Woodland workers have ratified a new three year agreement with Tolko Industries retroactive to February 1st, 2009. Included in the new agreement will ... Lire la suite...
Crofton mill will restart 1 production line
25 Août 2009 09:13Catalyst Paper today announced that it will restart one line of pulp production at its Crofton NBSK kraft mill on Vancouver Island, given improved market conditions. The kraft pulp mill ... Lire la suite...
Kenora Forest Products and CEP Local 324 reach settlement
25 Août 2009 09:10Kenora Forest Products and the CEP Local 324 have reached a settlement. The company will be forced to pay severance and termination to its workers. The workers will receive a 40% payment ... Lire la suite...
Sawlog prices near 5-year low globally
25 Août 2009 07:38The Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) in the 2Q/09, increased for the first time since late 2007, reaching $68.87/m3. The Index, which is based on conifer sawlog prices in 19 key regions ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers mill reopens tomorrow
22 Août 2009 08:26Workers will return to their jobs at Fraser Papers mill in Edmunston, New Brunswick on Monday. After the unionized workers voted to accept concessions to save their mill and jobs, ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater and union still talking
21 Août 2009 11:12About 700 AbitibiBowater workers in Thunder Bay will likely vote on a tentative agreement next week, a day or two after 2 senior union officials meet with AbitibiBowater next week in Ottawa. ... Lire la suite...
FSC Ireland invites comments on draft Irish forest management standard
21 Août 2009 02:45A new draft of the Irish FSC forest stewardship standard is out for public consultation. The draft represents the outcomes of challenging negotiations between economic, environmental and social stakeholders involved ... Lire la suite...
CONIFER Disappointed by USW Blindness to Forest Industry Reality
20 Août 2009 07:50The Council on Northern Interior Forest Employment Relations (CONIFER) has taken a "time out" in its talks with the United Steelworkers of America on a new collective agreement. "We began ... Lire la suite...
Brand recognition of FSC label in Switzerland at continuous growth
20 Août 2009 03:16A study by the Link Institute on behalf of WWF Switzerland has shown that recognition of the FSC label in Switzerland by private consumers has again increased in 2009. The survey, ... Lire la suite...
Does a park's logging ban mean a logging road is also prohibited?
19 Août 2009 19:08There is a logging ban in Manitoba's Grassy River Provincial Park but Tolko wants approval to build a logging road through the park so the company can access the timber ... Lire la suite...
Tentative union agreements reached with AbtibiBowater in Thunder Bay
19 Août 2009 18:40At least one of the unions at AbitibiBowater's mill in Thunder Bay, Ontario has reached a tentative new deal with the company. CEP Local 39 President Gary Bragnalo said Wednesday afternoon ... Lire la suite...
CONIFER has walked away from contract talks with the United Steelworkers
19 Août 2009 16:48Contract talks ended between the United Steelworkers and CONIFER today in British Columbia when CONIFER walked away from the bargaining table. CONIFER, the Council on Northern Interior Forest Employment Relations, ... Lire la suite...
FSC launches 2009 Market Survey
19 Août 2009 09:05FSC has launched the 2009 Market Survey to solicit valuable feedback from certificate holders. The survey is available in several languages and will be open online from now through 19 October 2009.... Lire la suite...
Smurfit-Stone wants to sell 1 million acres to Quebec
18 Août 2009 20:26Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., currently under bankruptcy protection, wants to sell 1 million acres of its woodlands to the province of Quebec for $55.4 million. Smurfit-Stone is seeking approval of the Delaware bankruptcy ... Lire la suite...
Former workers of Marathon Pulp may see deep pension cuts
18 Août 2009 09:57The former workers and retirees of Marathon Pulp in Ontario are now finding out how steep the cuts may be to their pension benefits. The provincial court appointed administrator for ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater continues to buy recycled paper
17 Août 2009 19:44The Columbus Dispatch recently published a story about the 800 recycling bins AbitibiBowater owns throughout Ohio - 800 of the more than 23,000 bins AbitibiBowater has placed across North America. In Ohio, the ... Lire la suite...
Atlas Holdings LLC aquires Trus Joist from Weyerhaeuser
17 Août 2009 19:07Atlas Holding LLC has acquired the Trus Joist® Commercial division from Weyerhaeuser. Atlas will establish the division as an independent business, to be renamed RedBuilt. Its headquarters will be ... Lire la suite...
Domtar is closing its Ear Falls sawmill indefinitely
17 Août 2009 14:27Domtar has decided to close its Ear Falls, Ontario sawmill indefinitely. The sawmill will close in October and 130 employees will be out of work. Domtar based their closure decision on ... Lire la suite...
Ontario passes on St. Marys Paper's cogen proposal
15 Août 2009 22:37St. Marys Paper in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario has said its cogeneration plans were essential to their paper mill's survival. St. Marys Paper proposed a 35 MW multi-million-dollar cogeneration facility when ... Lire la suite...
CEP's collective agreements have all expired in Eastern Canada
15 Août 2009 21:13All the Collective Agreements for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) workers in Eastern Canada's paper mills have now expired and new agreements aren't expected soon. One of the ... Lire la suite...
Vote for FSC UK in the Optimist World Charity of the Year Awards
14 Août 2009 02:51FSC UK has been invited to take part in the Optimist World Charity of the Year Awards and are appealing to all members of FSC networks to lend their support ... Lire la suite...
Bowater Mersey is closing for 5 weeks - 4th shutdown this year
13 Août 2009 20:03AbitibiBowater is closing its co-owned Bowater Mersey paper mill in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia for 5 weeks beginning on August 29th, until October 4th. This downtime will be the 4th shutdown at ... Lire la suite...
Missing: $1.8 million of timber... And the ship carrying it.
13 Août 2009 12:19The cargo ship, the Arctic Sea, and the $1.8 million of timber that was on-board, has gone missing. The ship was destined for Algeria from Finland, then was briefly hijacked off ... Lire la suite...
NewPage posts net loss of $6 million
13 Août 2009 10:48NewPage Corporation has posted a net quarterly loss of $6 million, compared to a larger net loss of $109 million in this year's first quarter, and $21 million in the second quarter of 2008. ... Lire la suite...
Some of Thunder Bay's woodland workers laid off
13 Août 2009 07:10Some of the woodland workers in Thunder Bay, Ontario received their indefinite lay off notice from AbitibiBowater this week, and harvesting has been halted. There are roughly 400 woodland workers. Union ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater posts net loss of $510 million
12 Août 2009 14:41AbitibiBowater has posted their quarterly results and have reported a net loss of $510 million (or about $8.84 per share) with an operating loss of $285 million. In comparison, in the same quarter ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Paper's workers vote to save their jobs, mill will re-open
12 Août 2009 08:04Fraser Paper's sulphite mill in Edmundston, New Brunswick will re-open after the mill's unionized workers voted last night to accept the company's final offer. More than 200 jobs will be saved. ... Lire la suite...
Kimberly-Clark preferences FSC in revised procurement policy
12 Août 2009 06:49... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater isn't prepared to post official quarterly result, but estimate large loss
11 Août 2009 12:16AbitibiBowater has announced that they are not prepared to file their quarterly results on time, due to the significant time and effort required to prepare financial statements according to bankruptcy ... Lire la suite...
FSC forum brings indigenous people together for P&C Review consultation
11 Août 2009 07:56... Lire la suite...
[CWP] New office in Quebec city - New name - New web site
10 Août 2009 13:00... Lire la suite...
Brookfield Asset Management reports increase in profits
10 Août 2009 07:28Brookfield Asset Management, the company that now controls Fraser Papers Inc., wood panel producer Norbord Inc., and Great Lakes Hydro Income Fund, has reported a quarterly net income of $147 million (... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater doesn't think the Thunder Bay mill is sustainable, even with just 1 paper machine
07 Août 2009 20:48Dougall Media in Thunder Bay obtained a confidential letter of intent from AbitibiBowater to its 5 unions representing the workers of the Thunder Bay mill. In the letter, it states: "As ... Lire la suite...
Union rejects final offer from Fraser Papers
07 Août 2009 08:00The union of Fraser Paper Inc.'s Edmundston mill have voted to reject the company's final contract offer. As a result, Fraser Papers will keep the sulphite pulp operation closed ... Lire la suite...
Fraser Papers posts net loss of $8 million
06 Août 2009 21:33Fraser Papers Inc. has posted a net quarterly loss of $8 million (US), down from their previous quarter's loss of $15.6 million. Throughout the quarter, the company only operated its lumber mills ... Lire la suite...
Reminder: FSC invites comments on first comprehensive review of Principles and Criteria
06 Août 2009 10:37FSC is calling for FSC members, National Initiatives, certification bodies and all other interested parties to comment on Draft 2-0 of Version 5 of the Principles and Criteria (P&C) before 4 ... Lire la suite...
FSC Australia announces call for nominations - Annual Responsible Forest Management Awards
06 Août 2009 03:30FSC Australia has announced a call for submissions for the second Annual Responsible Forest Management Awards. Organizations are invited to sponsor the prestigious awards which will be presented in Melbourne ... Lire la suite...
The Cheslatta Nation starts paddle business
05 Août 2009 21:38In an excellent example of refocusing to create jobs and income when times are tough, the Cheslatta Nation in British Columbia has started to manufacture wooden canoe paddles. The small ... Lire la suite...
Update on B.C. Interior sawmill negotiations
05 Août 2009 20:39Negotiations are continuing, albeit slowly, in British Columbia's Interior sawmill sector. Another session is scheduled for 3 days next week in Williams Lake between the United Steelworkers and an industry group ... Lire la suite...
Four B.C. companies approved to produce and sell power to BC Hydro
05 Août 2009 20:32Four companies have been approved to generate and sell power to BC Hydro by burning waste wood in pulp mills. The operations are: Domtar's pulp mill in Kamloops Canfor Pulp ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater cuts head office staff by 25%
05 Août 2009 20:22AbitibiBowater believes it can save $100 million (US) a year by cutting its head office staff by 25%. Right now, AbitibiBowater has about 700 employees including 400 in Montreal. 175 of the 700 employees will laid ... Lire la suite...
AbitibiBowater shuts down 2 paper machines in Thunder Bay
05 Août 2009 12:35AbitibiBowater is shutting down the No. 4 and No. 5 paper machine in Thunder Bay, Ontario later this month. The shutdown is indefinite and will affect 360 employees. The high operating costs at ... Lire la suite...
B.C.'s forest fire situation is so severe international assistance is being considered
04 Août 2009 12:11100 new forest fires have started in British Columbia in just the last 24 hours. (9 were human starts and 91 were caused by lightning). 1000 of B.C.'s own provincial firefighters are fighting ... Lire la suite...
Domtar reports net earnings of $48 million
04 Août 2009 08:16Domtar has reported a net earning of $48 million on sales of $1.3 billion in its second quarter. These results can be compared to a net loss of $45 million for the first ... Lire la suite...
Kruger reduces production in Quebec temporarily
31 Juillet 2009 13:31Kruger Inc. is temporarily cutting back production at its Québec paper mills this August and September, by interrupting production for periods of one to three weeks depending on the ... Lire la suite...
ASI-Accreditation Services International (ASI) welcomes two new staff members
31 Juillet 2009 09:46ASI-Accreditation Services International (ASI) is pleased to welcome two new members to its team. Dr. Sasha Bosbeer and Ms. Barbara Hiller will both further the work of ASI-Accreditation Services International (... Lire la suite...
New FSC good practice guide focuses on biodiversity in small-scale and low intensity forest operations (SLIMFs)
31 Juillet 2009 03:33FSC has published a new guide intended to help managers and owners of small-scale and low intensity forest operations maintain or improve the management of biodiversity and High Conservation Values (... Lire la suite...
FSC certified timber specified for 2014 Winter Olympics
29 Juillet 2009 11:00... Lire la suite...
FSC releases literature review on the outcomes and impacts of FSC certification
21 Juillet 2009 08:54FSC has published a compilation of findings on the outcomes and impacts of FSC certification in and beyond the forest, in a literary review of independent research. The report uncovers ... Lire la suite...
Final drafts of FSC complaints procedures out for public consultation
21 Juillet 2009 08:00The final drafts of two FSC procedures, developed to ensure timely, independent and effective resolution of complaints submitted by FSC stakeholders, are out for public consultation. FSC invites all interested ... Lire la suite...
New FSC guide addresses pest management in forests and plantations
21 Juillet 2009 06:16FSC has published a new guide which provides a framework for integrated pest, disease and weed management (IPM) in FSC certified forests and plantations. The guide is one of several ... Lire la suite...
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