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 | Dec 5, 2011 | News
Lewiston Mill Sold To Idaho Forest Group Clearwater Paper Corp. is selling its Lewiston, Idaho sawmill to Idaho Forest Group of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The $30 million transaction includes the sale of Clearwater Paper’s sawmill, planer mill, dry kilns, and...
by Web Editor | Dec 2, 2011 | News
Log and lumber exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska in the first three quarters of 2011 have surpassed the total exports of 2010 according to the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station. “The increasing shipments to China...
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....
by Web Editor | Nov 23, 2011 | News
Timber Processing magazine wishes everyone a safe, happy and blessed Thanksgiving!
