VANCOUVER – A recent global benchmarking survey from Wood Markets (FEA-Canada) has once again placed mills of the U.S. South at the top. The U.S. South was the highest margin sawmill region in North America – a place it has held since 2008 – as well as the top global earner again in 2016 and…
Local media are reporting that road collapse due to heavy rain is the likely cause of a fatal logging truck accident on Nov. 15. Ian Fraser has been identified as the deceased driver of the logging truck. “A significant portion of the road reportedly collapsed underneath the truck. The vehicle then appears to have rolled…
A fatal logging truck accident occurred on Nov. 15 near Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island. The accident involved an employee of a contractor working for TimberWest. A report from CBC News says the vehicle was submerged in water beside the roadway. Emergency personnel were alerted to the incident around 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, and an…
The sawmill could remain closed for up to six months, but Tolko Industries has committed to rebuild and re-open the Lakeview facility in Williams Lake, B.C., that was damaged by fire in early November. A local news site, The Williams Lake Tribune, quotes an email from general manager Troy Connolly: ““It’s hard to say exactly…
More than $1 million worth of penalties against the owner of Babine Forest Products have been upheld, following a review by WorksafeBC. An explosion and fire at the Babine Forest Products sawmill in 2012 killed two workers and injured more than 20 others. The Prince George Citizen reports that after a series of reviews requested…
WLLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — Tolko is assessing the damage to its Lakeview sawmill in Williams Lake, B.C., following a fire that took days to completely extinguish. The fire began on Nov. 2 about 6:30 p.m. The fire was mostly extinguished by the following evening, but flare-ups continued for several days. An update from Tolko on…
A Resolute Forests Products sawmill received a safety award last month for a device developed by a supervisor and a mechanic at the mill to empty recycling bins. The company’s Girardville sawmill was the winner in the Innovation category by Quebec’s workplace safety agency, the Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de…
FREDERICTON, N.B. – The New Brunswick Lumber Producers have called on their government to secure an exemption for New Brunswick from duties on softwood lumber imports to the United States. Producers in other Atlantic provinces have received an exemption from the duties announced on Nov. 2, when the U.S. Department of Commerce made its final…
Over the past few years, the lumber industry has been confronted with chip production above and beyond market demand, resulting in large surpluses in various regions of Quebec and Ontario. This situation may well get worse in the coming years, as pulp and paper mills—which used to be large consumers of this resource—buy less and…
ANGLIERS, Que. — Cardinal Equipment has expanded with the acquisition of another Quebec sawmill equipment supplier, Sawquip International. Founded in 1988, Sawquip International designs and manufactures sawmill equipment from a headquarters in Lanoraie, Que. Cardinal Equipment specializes in designing, manufacturing and distributing equipment for sawmills, forestry, recycling and biomass processing. The company has been in…