by Web Editor | Jan 27, 2014 | News
Grande Prairie’s Canfor sawmill recently received a capital investment grant from the Canfor Corporation in the amount of $15 million to perform some necessary upgrades to the facility. The planned work includes upgrades in controls and technology as well as equipment...
by Web Editor | Jan 24, 2014 | News
Saskatchewan’s Carrier Forest Products Sawmill To Close A Saskatchewan sawmill is shutting down and its remaining 12 workers have been given layoff notices. Operations at Carrier Forest Products in the Prince Albert area are to cease entirely later this month. Shane...
by Web Editor | Jan 22, 2014 | News
Canfor will be adding another power-generating turbine to its biomass-fired energy system as part of $8 million in capital upgrades to its Fort St. John sawmill announced Tuesday. Canfor Corporation President and CEO Don Kayne says the investment will improve...
by Web Editor | Jan 20, 2014 | News
Global trade of both logs and softwood lumber was higher in 2013 than it was in 2012 with both products reaching their highest levels traded since before the global financial crises in 2008, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). The total value that was...
by Web Editor | Jan 17, 2014 | News
The timber market is on the rebound and the owners of Bennett Lumber Products aren’t wasting any time, they’re looking to hire dozens of people later this year. They plan to have between 60 and 70 employees after a five-year closure at the local mill. Wood...
by Web Editor | Jan 13, 2014 | News
The outlook for global lumber markets hinge on demand forces in the key consuming regions of the world. More specifically, it will be the lumber demand trends in the U.S., China and Western Europe that will shape global markets in 2014 and beyond. The following...
