by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2017 | News
If it’s true that business hates uncertainty, then the B.C. forest industry is in for some ill feeling in 2017. Finding opportunity in the face of that uncertainty is the challenge for the coming year. The biggest challenge comes from the United States, which has...
by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2016 | News
The provincial government is moving ahead with a new plan to “enhance the competitiveness” of B.C.’s forest industry at a time when Canada and the U.S. are still at loggerheads over reaching a new softwood lumber deal and the threat of U.S.-imposed...
by Web Editor | Jun 18, 2014 | News
The warning bell has been sounding for several years that the opportunity to extract economic value from pine beetle-killed trees would come to an end. West Fraser has focused on salvaging dead pine trees for almost 15 years and we remain committed to salvaging pine...
by Web Editor | Sep 23, 2013 | News
At West Fraser’s modern Quesnel sawmill, sophisticated computer technology has turned the legacy of the worst mountain pine beetle infestation in British Columbia’s history into commercially viable lumber, a feat that is keeping the forest industry...
by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2013 | News
All indications are that the future may be bright for Western Forest Products, which operates two sawmills in Nanaimo, and the province’s forest industry after years of struggle. WFP, one of the largest forest companies in the province, reported in May that it...