by Web Editor | May 19, 2014 | News
Export Development Canada (EDC), the federal Crown corporation that provides financing to Canadian exporters, is forecasting that an increase in lumber shipments overseas will drive the B.C. economy for the next two years. The forestry sector is predicted to grow by...
by Web Editor | May 12, 2014 | News
The $1.1-billion acquisition of Vancouver-based Ainsworth Lumber Co. appears to hit a wall with regulators. Louisiana-Pacific Corporation announced in September 2013 it was buying the B.C. company. But Louisiana-Pacific CEO Curt Stevens announced in a May 8 earnings...
by Web Editor | May 9, 2014 | News
How rapidly U.S. housing construction awakens from a deep winter hibernation will determine how strongly B.C. lumber producers continue their recovery, according to new figures from the accounting and consulting firm PwC. So far this year, lumber producers have been...
by Web Editor | May 7, 2014 | News
Western Forest Products B.C. Sawmill Restarts Following Recent Shooting Western Forest Products sawmill workers in Nanaimo will return to the job site in a “soft start” following the shooting deaths of two workers. Michael Lunn, 62, and Fred McEachern, 53, were killed...
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...
by Web Editor | Apr 25, 2014 | News
On the edge of what promises to be another hot, drought-fueled wildfire season, timber companies working under the U.S. Forest Service’s expiring 10-year White Mountain Stewardship Project are running short of wood. Eastern Arizona loggers and mill operators...
