VANCOUVER – Conifex Timber’s results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017, showed an improvement in lumber sector earnings, but lower results in the bioenergy sector. Adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter of 2017, which excludes countervailing duty (CVD) deposits of $4.6 million, was a record $14.8 million, compared to $6.1 million in the…
LANGLEY, B.C.— Hardwoods Distribution Inc. generated record second quarter profit of $9.8 million, an 81.9 per cent increase compared to Q2 2016, on the strength of acquisitions. Organic second quarter revenue increased $8.6 million, or 5.5 per cent, year-over-year. Hardwoods is North America’s largest wholesale distributor of architectural grade building products to the residential and…
A UNBC professor fears the wildfires raging across B.C. will have significant impacts on forestry operators, especially smaller ones focusing on localized areas, such as community forests, First Nation tenures and woodlot operators. Philip Burton, a professor with the Ecosystem and Science Management program, is quoted in an article on MyPrinceGeorgeNow.com. He says some of…
Curious about green energy? Get a behind-the-scenes look at green energy developments in Canada, that are already in place. Green Energy Doors Open (GEDO) is a showcase of sustainable energy projects and success stories from across Canada. GEDO17 runs from September 22-24 across Ontario and B.C., with a special Ottawa regional program from September 30-October…
Registration is now open for the CIF-IFC‘s 109th annual general meeting and conference that will take place at the Westin Hotel, in Ottawa, from September 27-29, 2017. As a part of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, the theme of this year’s event is “Canada’s Forests: Our Stories, Our Future”, with individual themes and speakers, field tours, and…
Tembec’s Kapuskasing Sawmill is a two-shift operation that consumes approximately 410,000 m3 of roundwood logs on an annual basis. The entire volume is received within a three-and-a-half month period, during frost season (December through March). Approximately 10,000 transport loads of logs are received in this short period. One of the challenges for the mill is…
OTTAWA – The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has opened its annual request for proposals (RFP) for the SFI Conservation and Community Partnerships Grant Program. The grants program supports SFI’s work to promote sustainable forest management through partnerships with conservation groups that are contributing to the understanding of critical links between forests and communities across the…
Artificial intelligence may soon be used to help predict extreme fire weather to better prepare provinces for devastating wildfires. According to the Edmonton Journal, researchers from the University of Alberta and University of Oklahoma teamed up to study how real-time meteorological data inside a neural network could be used to create early warning systems. Their…
A University of Alberta forestry professor has cracked a key mystery surrounding the mountain pine beetle, the university reports. After studying lodgepole pine trees in the Grande Prairie area that survived a pine beetle attack, U of A professor Nadir Erbilgin and his team discovered certain chemicals in the trees that produce high levels of…
A collaborative study by Mojgan Nejad, of Michigan State University, shows that lignin, a component of wood and byproduct of paper production, can completely replace phenol in phenolic adhesive formulation in products such as plywood. This research directly impacts housing manufacturing by introducing biobased adhesives made of lignin, a renewable resource, instead of petroleum-based phenol….