by Working Forest | Mar 15, 2017 | Archives
President Donald Trump’s nominee for United States Trade Representative is vowing to end the long-running softwood-lumber dispute with Canada – whether by cutting a deal or fighting it out in trade court – and take Ottawa to task for not cracking down on counterfeit...
by Working Forest | Mar 15, 2017 | Archives
Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre and FPInnovations announced three winners of the initial stage of the “FPInnovations-ARCTIC Forest Inventory Challenge.” Arbonaut Oy, Lim Geomatics Inc. and Object Raku Technology Inc. were selected from a pool of global...
by Working Forest | Mar 15, 2017 | Archives
Canadian forestry firm Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is kicking off a new multimillion-dollar cleantech project with the help of the federal government. Working with an Australian-based startup company, which has developed a process that uses to convert biomass into...
by Working Forest | Mar 14, 2017 | Archives
New Brunswick’s Forest Products Commission has put off a two-day hearing that is key to the regulatory authority of the province’s woodlot marketing boards. The appeal to the commission was launched by JD Irving Limited, AV Group, W & R Gillespie Ltd,...
by Working Forest | Mar 14, 2017 | Archives
While B.C. forestry companies face a long-term decline in the annual allowable cut in the Interior, thanks to the mountain pine beetle infestation, B.C. companies on the coast have been exporting raw logs, mostly to China, in record volumes in recent years. According...
by Working Forest | Mar 14, 2017 | Archives
Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced the indefinite idling of its paper mill located in Thorold, Ontario. The facility, which employed over 100 workers, has an annual production capacity of approximately 197,000 metric tons of newsprint on one machine using 100...
