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Madison’s Announces . . .
Read more: Madison’s Announces . . .Madison’s has completed our annual update of Madison’s Online Lumber Directory! Don’t miss out on this valuable information resource, freshly researched and updated. The new data is being installed on the website, as an online subscription. Get instantly connected with the Canadian solid wood and pulp and paper products industries! Each of the more than…
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LiDAR
Read more: LiDARUnmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or vehicles (UAV) at an accessible price are ready to take off for the surveying and geospatial professions. Of particular interest to forest operators, UAVs are very useful for forest surveys. For example, digital surface models and orthophotos can be created from UAV images of regrowth areas within a cutblock. Height…
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Sawmill Investigaton Review Ordered
Read more: Sawmill Investigaton Review OrderedA WorkSafeBC investigation has found ample evidence that the Burns Lake sawmill accident in early 2012, which killed two workers and injuring 20 others, was “preventable.” But there will be no penalties for the operators of the mill in the village about 220 kilometres west of Prince George because the Crown says WorkSafeBC’s investigation was…
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Canada Invests in Lumber Exports to India
Read more: Canada Invests in Lumber Exports to IndiaThe federal government is investing an additional $600,000 to spur efforts to boost lumber exports to India, a potentially large market that’s home to about 1.2 billion people. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver announced Wednesday the funding to Forest Innovation Investment India (FII India). Ottawa has already provided $1.6 million to FII India, which is…
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December US Housing Starts
Read more: December US Housing StartsNew-home construction in the US retained a strong pace in December, a sign the housing market can absorb modestly higher interest rates. US housing starts decreased 9.8 per cent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 999,000, the Commerce Department said Friday. But the figure was well above summer levels and exceeded economists’…
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Canfor to Invest
Read more: Canfor to InvestCanfor 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, BC, sawmill, the company announced Tuesday. Canfor Corporation President and CEO Don Kayne said, “This capital project will improve cost efficiency at our Fort St. John mill and help move…
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Carrier Layoffs
Read more: Carrier LayoffsOperations at Carrier Forest Products near Prince Albert, SK, are to cease entirely later in January, the Alberta government announced Friday. The remaining 12 workers have been issued layoff notices. According to Shane Vermette with the Alberta Ministry of Economy, all workers at the Prince Albert sawmill have been offered jobs at Carrier’s Big River,…
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Biomass Fuel Production
Read more: Biomass Fuel ProductionA microorganism first found in the Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia in 1990 may be a key to more efficient cellulosic biofuel production, said DomesticFuel.com January 6. The microoorganism can digest cellulose almost twice as fast as the current leading component cellulase enzyme on the market, according to researchers at the…
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Sawmill Accident Ruled Not Criminal
Read more: Sawmill Accident Ruled Not CriminalNo criminal or regulatory charges will be laid in connection with an explosion and fire that killed two workers at a Burns Lake, BC, sawmill in January 2012. The Criminal Justice Branch said Friday that based on the evidence provided by WorkSafeBC there is no substantial likelihood of conviction against the Babine Forest Products sawmill.…
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BC’s Forest Ministry Seeks Comments
Read more: BC’s Forest Ministry Seeks CommentsThe Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is proposing to establish the areas, almost 18,000 hectares in total, along Toba and Jervis Inlets near Powell River and on parts of the Sechelt Peninsula. Foresters are asking for the public’s thoughts on setting aside parcels of old growth trees along the Sunshine Coast to…
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Conifex Announces . . . .
Read more: Conifex Announces . . . .Conifex Timber has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Lignum Forest Products, a private partnership which operates a lumber marketing and distribution business, for approximately $4 million, the company announced Monday. Conifex intends to fund the transaction from its existing available cash. Lignum operates its forestry and lumber distribution business in BC, providing…
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COFI Announces . . .
Read more: COFI Announces . . .The Council of Forest Industries (COFI), out of Vancouver, BC, is pleased to announce the dates for Western Canada’s premier forest sector convention – April 2 & 3, 2014 in Kelowna, BC. This annual convention traditionally attracts over 400 delegates representing senior industry, government and customer representatives as well as elected officials from, local, provincial…
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Lumber Market Outlook 2014
Read more: Lumber Market Outlook 2014Players not directly involved in forest products jumped for joy this week on seeing US housing starts solidly at more than 1 million annualized for 2013. It is now apparent to all that building in America has absolutely recovered from the terrible crash of 2006-2010. Forest industry players have known the outlook is positive since…
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Steelworkers Ratify
Read more: Steelworkers RatifyUnited Steelworkers members employed by Interior Forest Labour Relations Association (IFLRA) member companies in the BC southern interior have ratified a five-year collective agreement, affecting Ainsworth, Tolko, and Weyerhaeuser, among others. The BC Interior Bargaining Committee will bring the pattern deal to the northern interior when they continue negotiations in the new year with West…
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BC Lumber Exports Jan – Oct 2013 Break Records
Read more: BC Lumber Exports Jan – Oct 2013 Break RecordsThe value of BC’s softwood lumber exports for the first 10 months of 2013 have broken a new record, Forests Minister Steve Thomson announced December 13. To the end of October 2013, the value of total softwood lumber exports to China reached $1.17 billion — exceeding the previous record set in 2011 when softwood lumber…
