by Web Editor | May 15, 2017 | News
Resolute Forest Products Announces Layoffs Amid Softwood Lumber Battle Hundreds of Quebec forestry workers are experiencing the first sour tastes from the softwood lumber battle with the United States as they prepare for the start of layoffs. Starting Monday, Resolute...
by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2012 | News
Fifty Jobs Lost In Seattle-Snohomish Mill Closure The Seattle-Snohomish Mill in Snohomish, Wash. will close in March after more than 70 years in business. The mill, which currently employs 50 people, first opened in Snohomish in 1941. “This is a very difficult...
by Web Editor | Dec 12, 2011 | News
A group of 120 shareholders who invested in a failed Watson Lake sawmill 13 years ago are hopeful they’ll be paid back soon by Ottawa if a federal court of appeals upholds their award. The sawmill went bankrupt and ran out of wood in 2000, costing 150 jobs. The...
by Web Editor | Dec 9, 2011 | News
Canfor Announces Permanent Closure Of Rustad and Tackama Mills After a lengthy indefinite shutdown that followed the collapse of the United States residential housing market in 2008, Canfor Corporation has decided to close its historic Rustad Sawmill in Prince George,...
by Web Editor | Nov 28, 2011 | News
Recently Reopened BC Sawmill Forced To Close A northwestern British Columbia sawmill has shut down after only a few months of it’s reopening, due to a rapid decline in lumber demand. The Kitwanga Sawmill near Hazelton reopened July 8, 2011 with optimism that the B.C....
