Sawmills in Ear Falls and Kenora are taking advantage of the ongoing recovery in the lumber sector and are ramping up production. Unifor national representative Stephen Boon said Wednesday that they are happy to see EACOM’s Ear Falls sawmill start full production earlier this week with an addition of a second shift (on) Monday. The…
The Grande Prairie Fire Department was called to a fire at the Canfor mill on Wapiti Road (108 Street) at about 10 a.m. on Monday. When crews arrived, Canfor employees were evacuating the building and indicated there was a fire in the sawmill. Crews found moderate smoke conditions and a smoldering fire being controlled by…
Vermont officials say the state’s increasing forestry are due to the decline of the paper mill industry in Maine. Michael Snyder, commissioner of Vermont’s Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation, says that a significant market for the state’s wood is in jeopardy. People in Canada Get Wealthy Within A Month With This Offer! WATCH NOW!…
Columbia Forest Products is reopening its Rutherglen veneer mill, east of North Bay, after a five-year shutdown. Gary Gillespie, vice-president of Columbia’s Northern Operations, announced Dec. 15 that Columbia is in the “intermediate stages” of preparations to reopening the shuttered veneer facility, which closed in 2010 in the face of imports from China, a strong…
Northern Pulp says air pollution from the stacks at its pulp mill in Pictou County are now fully below environmental thresholds established by the Nova Scotia government. “We are in compliance and we intend to stay there,” general manager Bruce Chapman told CBC News on Wednesday. In October, the provincial government ordered the mill to produce an action plan to reduce…
Employees, elected representatives, community leaders joined company executives today at the Domtar pulp mill in Kamloops to mark the mill’s 50(th) year of operations. The operation began in 1965, when a new and innovative concept for utilizing waste materials from regional sawmilling operations was developed. Sawmill residuals or waste in the form of sawdust and…
Less than two weeks after announcing plans to shut down its Boyle sawmill indefinitely, Edmonton-based Millar Western Forest Products Ltd. said Tuesday it is in “advanced discussions” to sell the mill and its timber quotas to Northland Forest Products Ltd. of Fort McMurray. The terms of a transaction are not final, and details will only be made…
J.D. Irving Ltd. is reporting the Irving Pulp and Paper Mill in Saint John is operating normally after its scrubber unit was brought back on line Sunday. An electrical fire Saturday night damaged the exterior of a building housing the electrostatic precipitator unit and some surrounding utilities. The unit acts as a scrubber to control emissions…
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…
Terrace’s only sawmill has shut down one of its main wood processing units as log supply and foreign markets dwindle, which is the second slowdown in the last year. “This time the mill has cut production by half,” said Skeena Sawmills official Roger Keery last week. “Our sawmill isn’t running but the planner mill is…