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Ontario provides direction to support a sustainable aquaculture industry
Ontario released its final policy paper on lake-based cage fish farming that helps provide business certainty and enables read more…
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Norbord Announces Reduced Production
TORONTO, CNW — Norbord Inc. has announced that effective September 5th, Line 1 of its two-line oriented strand read more…
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ATA Releases Updated Driver Shortage Report and Forecast
The American Trucking Associations has released its latest examination of the driver shortage, finding the industry needed 60,800 read more…
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Canfor Curtailing Additional Production Capacity
Vancouver, BC, Canada – Canfor Corporation has announced additional operating curtailments which will reduce production capacity by 75 read more…
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Municipal leaders share ideas to improve provincial requirements
OTTAWA — Last week, the Government of Ontario met with municipal leaders at the annual conference of the read more…
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Charta Global launches new ecofriendly alternative to plastic straws
ANAHEIM, CA, –Charta Global, provider of specialty, office, stationery, food-grade and packaging boards for the US and Latin read more…
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Canfor Special Committee Provides Process Update
Vancouver, BC, Canada — Canfor Corporation has announced that the Special Committee of Canfor’s board of has retained read more…
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Derek Nighbor elected ICFPA President
The International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA) has announced that Derek Nighbor, president, and CEO of read more…
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Global Roundwood Market 2019
IndexBox has just published a new report: World – Roundwood – Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights’. read more…
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MDF Market in China – Key Insights
The revenue of the mdf market in China amounted to $19B in 2017, coming down by -8.80% against read more…
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The UK emerges as largest market for pellet exports from North America
IndexBox has just published a new report: World – Wood Pellets – Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and read more…
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Nokian Hakkapeliitta TRI tire family expands
Since its release in 2014, Nokian Hakkapeliitta TRI has become the tire of choice among many contractors as read more…
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Domtar shutdown to end in August
The shutdown at Espanola’s Domtar Mill is expected to end this month. The outage, which only affects the pulp read more…
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Western Forest Products strike sees both sides digging in
Times Colonist — A strike that has sidelined thousands of forest industry workers on Vancouver Island for the read more…
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Mass Timber university grant program announced
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded $1 million through the Mass Timber University Grant Program to read more…
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Lodgepole pine send chemical SOS to relatives when attacked
CBC NEWS — Lodgepole pines can send distress signals warning nearby trees of an imminent attack from mountain read more…
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Hotter, larger fires risk legacy carbon release
The Canadian Press — Bigger, hotter wildfires are turning Canada’s vast boreal forest into a significant new source read more…
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Brazil’s Amazon rainforest burning at record rate
CNN–Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike read more…
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Canada invests $4.3 million in local conservation projects
VICTORIA, Cision News Wire — The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, announced more than $4.30 read more…
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Molson Coors to remove plastic packaging from its Carling and Coors Light brands
BURTON-UPON-TRENT, UK, –Molson Coors in the UK and Ireland is removing the plastic packaging from its Carling and read more…
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U.S. housing starts decline
WASHINGTON, Woodworking Network – U.S. housing starts declined four percent in July with a large decline in construction read more…
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Negative mortgages set another milestone in no-rate world
Bloomberg News Network — The world’s headlong dash to zero or negative interest rates just passed another milestone: read more…
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Home Depot cuts outlook citing tariffs, lumber prices
The Associated Press — Home Depot cut its sales expectations for the year as lumber prices slid and read more…
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B.C. minister asks for urgent federal help with forestry sector crisis
Vancouver Sun — B.C’s Minister of Forests Doug Donaldson has hand-delivered a direct plea for federal help in read more…
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Tolko Industries announces more downtime
Global News — Tolko Industries says three of its wood mills in the Okanagan will temporarily shut down read more…