Forest industry leaders from across the province are set to depart for Asia on a trade mission to build the Chinese and Japanese markets. “China and Japan are both important markets for BC forest products.” Council of Forest Industries President Susan Yurkovich said “Japan has been a market that has been in place for a…
Generous donations from the forest sector are building dreams for a fast growing sport in Nanaimo—archery. Four forestry companies based in Nanaimo—Aggressive Timber Falling, Coastland Wood Industries, Dorman Timber and TimberWest—have donated five loads of second growth Douglas fir logs to build a new indoor archery facility over the winter for the Nanaimo Fish And…
Port Hawkesbury Paper LP said this week it was “not planning to enter into the renewable-to-retail market,” despite its participation in the regulatory hearing that will pave the way for retail sales of renewable energy from companies other than Nova Scotia Power Inc. The Cape Breton paper mill recently filed technical questions with the Nova…
Plans to build a $60-million pellet plant at Duke Point are on hold while TimberWest reviews its business model for the facility and product. The proposed wood pellet fuel manufacturing plant was announced in July 2014 with construction to begin in 2015. Production capacity was estimated at 200,000 metric tonnes of wood fuel pellets annually…
Members of B.C.’s Indo-Canadian community invited to the Royal BC Museum in Victoria on Nov. 21, inspected the museum’s displays to determine if they accurately portray that community’s history and role in B.C.’s forestry industry. “It’s a little bit of history in the making, literally in a sense,” said Satwinder Bains, associate professor and the…
Millar Western says it is closing its Boyle lumber mill in northern Alberta indefinitely. The Edmonton-based company says softwood market conditions make it uneconomical to continue operating. The plant is to begin a phased shutdown starting next month be completed in February. Millar Western says the 91 workers who are to lose their jobs will…
The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to move ahead with a series of costly duties against Canadian mills that produce glossy paper products. The decision, posted today on the commission’s website, was part of the final phase of a countervailing duty investigation concerning supercalendered paper. Under a decision released last month the U.S. said…
Port Hawkesbury Paper has filed a North American Free Trade Agreement appeal in light of the U.S. government’s decision to uphold tariffs on the mill’s exports. The U.S. International Trade Commission released the decision papers on Wednesday, upholding a ruling that the U.S. paper industry was “materially injured” by imports of supercalendered paper from three mills in Canada owned by Port Hawkesbury Paper,…
Port Hawkesbury Paper LP is vowing to use the North American Free Trade Agreement to fight a penalizing tariff imposed on its paper exports to the United States. Management at the Nova Scotia mill was disappointed when the U.S. International Trade Commission announced Wednesday it would uphold a 20.18 per cent tariff placed on supercalendered…
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is applauding an issues paper released by the Canadian Climate Forum that documents how forests and products made from tree fibre will play an increasingly critical role in the transition to a low carbon economy. The study “Contributing to Climate Change Solutions” authored by scientist Dr.Stephen Colombo was…