Last year, Finewood Flooring in Middle River closed because it couldn’t get enough hardwood. This week, River’s Bend Wood Products Inc. of Pomquet, Antigonish County, shut down, citing a lack of steady supply of hardwood lumber. Meanwhile, the Group Savoie hardwood sawmill in Westville is running at less than half capacity because it can’t get enough hardwood logs…
The City of Toronto has been named as the recipient of the 2015 Ontario Wood Award. The award recognizes organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to promoting and supporting local wood programs and producers. The City of Toronto was recognized for their initiatives to promote locally produced wood products and urban forestry services and for their…
B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong offered tax breaks and other support for the province’s natural gas and mining sectors on Tuesday, but little for the forest industry, the single largest contributor to the province’s natural-resource revenues. The B.C. budget forecasts that natural-resource revenues will slide by nearly 7 per cent this year, thanks to…
One of British Columbia’s biggest forest companies, International Forest Products Ltd., acquired four new mills in December. The purchase by Interfor, as the company is better known, was a strong demonstration of growth. Forestry will be one of the bright spots featured in the B.C. budget that will be tabled on Tuesday by Finance Minister…