A rare slab of western maple tree from British Columbia is available for purchase at Windsor Plywood, which sells retail lumber and finishing products. The slab is from a tree approximately 60-years-old and was brought into the store, located at 3605–51 Ave., two weeks ago. Store manager Barbara Burns said it is rare for the…
The International Trade Commission (ITC) determined in a 5-0 vote this week that unfair subsidies for Canadian supercalendared paper were unlawfully hurting Maine businesses in a victory for U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) who first raised the issue. The Department of Commerce will now finalize a countervailing duty on imports of supercalendared paper from Canada…
J.D. Irving Ltd. is reporting the Irving Pulp and Paper Mill in Saint John is operating normally after its scrubber unit was brought back on line Sunday. An electrical fire Saturday night damaged the exterior of a building housing the electrostatic precipitator unit and some surrounding utilities. The unit acts as a scrubber to control emissions…
Despite some optimism surrounding the U.S. housing market, Canadian forest products stocks have not been benefiting over the past year, in part due to concerns about global lumber demand. Now we are seeing insider buying in the forestry group, in particular at Western Forest Products Inc. On Nov. 9, the vice-president of lumber sales and…
a renowned 77-acre ecoforest near Cedar — will go to the Ecoforestry Institute Society in December under a recently signed agreement. The Land Conservancy of B.C. has owned Wildwood since 2000. Its future has been hotly debated since the Victoria-based non-profit group went into creditor protection in 2013. In the past two years, the Land…
Rentech’s Atikokan facility in Ontario, Canada, achieved record production of approximately 1,850 metric tons of wood pellets for the week ended November 14. The plant’s design capacity is 110,000 metric tons per year, or 2,115 metric tons per week, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network. The Wawa facility resumed…
Forest industry leaders from across the province are set to depart for Asia on a trade mission to build the Chinese and Japanese markets. “China and Japan are both important markets for BC forest products.” Council of Forest Industries President Susan Yurkovich said “Japan has been a market that has been in place for a…
Generous donations from the forest sector are building dreams for a fast growing sport in Nanaimo—archery. Four forestry companies based in Nanaimo—Aggressive Timber Falling, Coastland Wood Industries, Dorman Timber and TimberWest—have donated five loads of second growth Douglas fir logs to build a new indoor archery facility over the winter for the Nanaimo Fish And…
Port Hawkesbury Paper LP said this week it was “not planning to enter into the renewable-to-retail market,” despite its participation in the regulatory hearing that will pave the way for retail sales of renewable energy from companies other than Nova Scotia Power Inc. The Cape Breton paper mill recently filed technical questions with the Nova…
Plans to build a $60-million pellet plant at Duke Point are on hold while TimberWest reviews its business model for the facility and product. The proposed wood pellet fuel manufacturing plant was announced in July 2014 with construction to begin in 2015. Production capacity was estimated at 200,000 metric tonnes of wood fuel pellets annually…