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Alberta Forest Products 3Q 2014 Results
Values of lumber, pulp and paper, and panelboard manufactured by Alberta Forest Products Association members totaled approximately $696 million for 3Q 2014, the agency announced March 6. The value of production was up $26 million, or 3.9 per cent, from the same period last year. In 2012 and 2013, Alberta’s forest industry averaged growth rates…
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Sawmill Fires, British Columbia and Kentucky
Operations at the Western Forest Products sawmill in Port Alberni, which came to a halt because of a fire Tuesday night, are expected to resume later this week. Company spokesperson Amy Spencer could not say where or how the fire started. “We can’t release those details until the investigation is complete, although there was a…
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Global Pulp Market Update
Mark Wilde, formerly of Deutsche Bank, now Packaging & Forest Products Analyst at BMO Capital Markets, this week held a conference call on the global pulp market with fuest speaker Brian McClay, principal at Brian McClay & Associates out of Montreal, QC. This week Mark Wilde, formerly of Deutsche Bank, now Packaging & Forest Products…
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Canfor Canal Flats, BC, Lays off 81
Canfor, headquartered in Vancouver, BC, February 5 announced to their Canal Flats, BC, employees that the mill would be going from two shifts to one affecting 81 employees due to lack of economically available fibre effective May 4, 2015. Doug Singer, President of United Steelworkers Local 1-405 in Cranbrook, BC, told the Kootenay Advisor, “This…
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Northwest Hardwoods Acquires
Northwest Hardwoods, out of Longview, WA, has completed the acquisition of Industrial Timber & Lumber, based in Beachwood, OH. ITL is one of the largest global suppliers of North American hardwood. It sells over 200 million board feet of hardwood lumber annually and has approximately 400 employees. ITL owns two integrated sawmills, four concentration yards…
