by Working Forest | Sep 3, 2020 | Archives
WASHINGTON, The Canadian Press — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed Wednesday to keep up the fight against the never-ending effort in the United States to slap countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports.In an interview on Vancouver-based RED FM,...
by Working Forest | Sep 3, 2020 | Archives
Castlegar, B.C. — Kalesnikoff has announced new mass timber projects at three Canadian educational institutions: Bayview Elementary in Vancouver, British Columbia, Humber College in Toronto, Ontario, and the University of Victoria in British Columbia. “These are among...
by Working Forest | Sep 3, 2020 | Archives
THUNDER BAY — Resolute Forest Products says its Thunder Bay sawmill has passed a significant milestone. The mill has now processed more than four billion board feet of construction-grade lumber. First opened in 2003 by Abitibi-Consolidated, the mill is located on Fort...
by Working Forest | Sep 3, 2020 | Archives
Canfor Pulp in Prince George is receiving two million dollars in funding through the province’s Innovative Clean Energy Fund (ICE). It will support a project that converts forest byproduct and wood waste to renewable energy for the company’s kraft pulp mill business....
by Working Forest | Sep 2, 2020 | Archives
By Kevin Sneader and Susan Lund MCKINSEY & COMPANY — When a high-rise goes up, it is designed to withstand everything from gale-force winds to earthquakes and fires. But few multinational companies have applied the same kind of preemptive stress-testing to...
by Working Forest | Sep 2, 2020 | Archives
Canfor’s Swedish subsidiary, Vida Group, has completed a purchase of three sawmills in the Scandanavian country. The company confirmed the acquisition in a brief notice issued Tuesday. It follows on a June 17 announcement that Vida entered an agreement to buy...
