by Working Forest | Mar 1, 2017 | Archives
Eacom Timber Corporation is hopeful that a new task force announced by the federal government last week will be able to dissuade the United States government from imposing stiff duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports. The forestry company, which operates a large...
by Working Forest | Mar 1, 2017 | Archives
It has been nearly a year since Canfor went public with its exploration of creating bio-crude from pulp operation waste streams. “We are continuing to develop the project from a demonstration plant level to a commercial level” says Martin Pudlas, Vice President of...
by Working Forest | Feb 27, 2017 | Archives
One of the planks in NDP Leader John Horgan’s election platform is made from raw logs (he wants their export “curtailed”), and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is helping him hammer it down. Horgan has criticized a sharp increase of raw logs from coastal...
by Working Forest | Feb 27, 2017 | Archives
Airex Energy officially inaugurated its biomass torrefaction plant, located in the La Prade industrial park in Bécancour, Quebec. The industrial size demonstration plant, which required around 10 million dollars in public and private investments for its design,...
by Working Forest | Feb 27, 2017 | Archives
Forest geneticists aim to tune up Canada’s working forests with trees better suited to changing climate conditions and that increase timber yields by up to 30 per cent in the bargain. The $5.8-million project won’t be creating genetically engineered trees, rather the...
