by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2019 | Archives
BRATTLEBORO, VT, — Long Falls Paperboard, the company that this year bought the former Neenah Paper Inc. plant in Brattleboro, is using a $1 million federal grant to study using wood biomass instead of the natural gas that is delivered to the factory in trucks...
by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2019 | Archives
A year after Chile became the first nation in South America to ban plastic bags, the Minister of Environment said the country avoided the consumption of over 16,000 tonnes of plastic in twelve months. The new law made the number of plastic bags produced annually in...
by Working Forest | Sep 9, 2019 | Archives
TOULOUSE, France and MINNEAPOLIS, USA – Delair, a leading provider of visual data management solutions for enterprise, and Geosys, a leader in satellite and weather data analytics for agriculture, have announced a partnership aimed at expanding the options for...
by Working Forest | Sep 9, 2019 | Archives
PICTOU, N.S., The Chronicle Herald — The union that represents Northern Pulp workers says it expects to receive notice by early January about how jobs will be impacted by a potential closure, according to a report in The Chronicle Herald. The mill is legislated to...
by Working Forest | Sep 9, 2019 | Archive Articles, Articles
MAPLE RIDGE, BC, CNW — The announcement of the closure of Hammond Cedar in Maple Ridge is the latest in a series of devastating sawmill closures in British Columbia that requires immediate and robust changes to forestry policy, says the United Steelworkers (USW)...
