B.C.’s International Trade Minister Teresa Wat says she’s disappointed with a decision by U.S. officials to impose costly duties on a paper product produced by four Canadian paper mills, including B.C.’s Catalyst Paper. The U.S. Department of Commerce says imports of supercalendered paper have been subsidized so Canadian mills now face a duty of 18.85…
This interesting building is actually the winning entry into the so-called Finlandia Prize for Architecture, which is organized in Finland. The building is called Puukuokka and was designed by the OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture and build out of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT). The Puukuokka building was constructed using prefabricated modular cubical elements, or more precisely…
West Fraser has entered into an agreement to acquire Manning Diversified Forest Products Ltd. which has sawmill operations located in Manning, Alberta and related timber harvesting rights, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.The sawmill has operated at the site since 1993 and has been producing approximately 100 million board…
The Northern Pulp mill has been charged under Environment Canada’s Fisheries Act with releasing pulp and paper effluent into water inhabited by fish. On June 10, 2014, a leak in an effluent pipe forced a shutdown of the Pictou County mill. That pipe carries 90-million litres of pulp waste every day from the mill site at Abercrombie Point, under the…
What was to be a routine maintenance shutdown for the Chetwynd Mechanical Pulp Mill in northeastern B.C. will now be a longer closure because of poor market conditions. The mill had only reopened in the spring with a $50-million upgrade, after Paper Excellence Canada purchased the facility in 2014. In a news release, Paper Excellence…
The United States Department of Commerce will announce Wednesday afternoon whether it will uphold a 20.33 per cent tariff on imports from Port Hawkesbury Paper LP. The ruling has the ability to significantly affect the competitiveness of the Point Tupper mill’s product in its largest market. It won’t just reverberate through northern Nova Scotia, where…
Officials in Canada and the United States appear to have resumed the acrimonious softwood trade dispute just where they left off in 2006 — with both sides blaming each other for failing to kick start negotiations. A British Columbia government official said Tuesday the Americans have ignored Canada’s offers to renew or renegotiate the trade…
British Columbia lumber companies woke up Tuesday morning with Martin Luther King Jr.’s words echoing in their ears: “Let freedom ring.” As in free trade with the U.S. The best-of-a-bad-situation Softwood Lumber Agreement expired Monday, so all the quotas and export taxes that Canada agreed to in 2006 have fallen off the table. B.C. companies…
A Fort Frances city official said he doesn’t know if the Resolute Forest Products Inc. mill is being sold, but the company, which manufactures pulp and paper, is having ongoing talks with an unknown entity.The official declined comment, as did Seth Kursman, Resolute’s vice president of corporate communications, sustainability and government affairs.In 2014, the company…
The world’s tallest wood building is ascending at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and architects say it could provide the template for how wood highrises could enter the B.C. mainstream. The $51.5 million UBC building is no architectural showpiece, concedes Russell Acton, a principal with Vancouver’s Acton Ostry Architects, which designed the plain-looking, 18-storey…