by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Employees, elected representatives, community leaders joined company executives today at the Domtar pulp mill in Kamloops to mark the mill’s 50(th) year of operations. The operation began in 1965, when a new and innovative concept for utilizing waste materials...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
What a great day to celebrate history! Sixty years ago, the Ketchum brothers started West Fraser Mills. On Nov. 28, 1955, the temperature in Quesnel was a cloudy and foggy -1 C. Chetwynd, known then as Little Prairie, was just starting to set down its roots....
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
John Williams wants to diversify Domtar Corp. from the declining business of making paper, but not too far. Williams, who is based in Fort Mill along with 500 employees of Domtar’s pulp and paper division, wants to move the Montreal-based company toward the...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
Premier Christy Clark is impressive talking the talk on the international stage. At the Paris summit she’s been poised and persuasive pumping up British Columbia — and her government, of course — as climate leaders. That’s on the basis of undeniable success in curbing...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
A consortium of Canadian aerospace companies and university researchers have announced a pilot project to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. Initially announced in June, during the 2015 Canadian...
