by Web Editor | Apr 22, 2016 | News
West Fraser Timber Co. and Canfor Corp., Canada’s largest lumber producers, are suffering from tepid demand in the U.S. where the recovery in the housing market is stuttering. U.S. housing starts fell a more-than-expected 8.8 percent last month, the Commerce...
by Web Editor | Jul 9, 2014 | News
North American lumber supplies and prices could be affected by a ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada granting the Tsilhqot’in First Nation title claim on land in central British Columbia. The decision, handed down June 26, gives the group exclusive right to...
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 | Jun 7, 2013 | News
B.C.’s Interior forestry industry is counting on cutting-edge sawmill technologies to soften the blow of the heavily reduced annual allowable cut anticipated in the wake of the mountain pine beetle infestation. “The worst-case scenario is that the [annual allowable...