by Web Editor | May 27, 2016 | News
Regulation of worker exposure to wood dust moves another step closer in California, where the state Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA) closed a comments period on May 19. The state’s effort to regulate exposure to wood dust began in 2010. The...
by Web Editor | Jun 12, 2015 | News
Western Forest Products is spending $30 million — most of it in Nanaimo — to upgrade three Vancouver Island sawmills. Lee Doney, company chairman, said today at the Duke Point mill: “Our harvesting strategies and continued demand for our western red cedar and...
by Web Editor | May 5, 2014 | News
Washington Lumber Companies Merge To Form Alta Forest Products TMI Forest Products and Welco Lumber Company USA have become Alta Forest Products LLC, a partnership between longtime Western Red Cedar manufacturers. Morton-based Alta took over the ownership, operations...