by Web Editor | Aug 8, 2014 | News
Resolute Forest Products Inc. (RFP), the world’s largest newsprint maker, is seeking to reduce its reliance on the low-grade paper by expanding its Canadian solid wood-products business into the U.S. Already North America’s fifth-largest lumber producer, Resolute has...
by Web Editor | Aug 6, 2014 | News
Reflecting slow but mostly steady improvements in Montana’s timber industry, lumber production and worker wages increased in the first six months of 2014, according to a new study. But despite the optimistic numbers, logging managers in this corner of the state say...
by Web Editor | Aug 4, 2014 | News
Interfor Permanently Closes Its Beaver-Forks Mill Operations Interfor has pulled the plug on its West End operations, planning to close two facilities and consolidate production in Port Angeles, the timber company announced Thursday. The closure affects 52 workers at...
by Web Editor | Aug 1, 2014 | News
U.S. timberland accelerated its price growth, despite some lumber market concerns centered on China and the domestic market, which prompted one of the top forestry groups to warn on profits. U.S. timberland prices were 7.2% higher in the April-to-June quarter than a...
by Web Editor | Jul 31, 2014 | The Issues
Gee, those Canadian forest products companies apparently grew increasingly perturbed about those taxes the U.S. has been putting on Canadian softwood lumber all of these years. They finally figured out—why ship lumber to the U.S. South, when you can go down there and...
by Web Editor | Jul 30, 2014 | News
WorkSafeBC has imposed fines totaling $724,163.28 on Lakeland Mills Ltd., owners of the Prince George sawmill that exploded in 2012 killing two workers and injuring many more. In a news release Tuesday, WorkSafeBC said Lakeland Mills Ltd. was in violation of the...
