Around the North

Thunder Bay architectural and engineering firm Kuch Stephenson Gibson Malo is changing its name to FORM Architecture Engineering.

EACOM Timber Corporation wants to expand its Ontario sawmill holdings by acquiring two idled former Buchanan Forest Products mills in northwestern Ontario, currently under bankruptcy protection.

A motion brought forward by Constance Lake First Nation to halt mineral exploration near their northwestern Ontario community will be heard in Ontario Superior Court, May 11. The hearing in Toronto was originally scheduled for April 29.

Algoma Tubes has been fined $55,000 after a worker was injured in 2008 at its Sault Ste. Marie seamless tube plant. A May 2 Ministry of Labour release said a worker suffered a broken arm after slipping on a wet surface at the facility, Dec. 17, 2008.

Domtar and Wagner Ontario Forest Management are accepting Crown wood supply offers from the provincial government for its operations in northwestern Ontario.

Essar Steel Algoma has named James Hrusovsky as its new chief executive officer of the Sault Ste. Marie sheet and plate operations.

Industry Minister Tony Clement thinks FedNor works well in its present state, but the federal development agency is glacially slow in its effectiveness, says a consultant's study.

Results have been announced for the 1,600-metre drill program by Wallbridge Mining Company at its Broken Hammer property in Sudbury. The results for seven of the 19 holes at the copper-platinum group metals project include 9.

Constance Lake First Nation is seeking an injunction in the Ontario Superior Court to stop a Thunder Bay junior mining company from drilling on its traditional territory, north of Highway 11.

A Kirkland Lake mining contractor has received an award of excellence in safety from Workplace Safety North.