Forestry

The clock is ticking and opportunities for Ontario’s wood industry to produce new products for a world market hungry for engineered wood are in danger of slipping away, says a new report commissioned by Ontario’s Living Legacy Trust (OLLT).

Domtar Inc. and Gogama Forest Products Ltd. have formed a 50-50 joint venture to develop a fully integrated sawmill, kiln and planer operation in Northern Ontario. Gogama Forest Products, a wholly-owned subsidiary of William Day Holdings Ltd.

Logging trucks from out of province come into northeastern Ontario to pick up a load of wood harvested from private or Crown lots, then haul it back to their province for processing.

It took two and a half years of negotiating between Tembec and the Wahgoshig First Nations.

There are many champions for the cause of wood and WoodWORKS! has recognized their efforts. At a gala evening held at Huntsville’s Deerhurst Resort on Oct.

With no increase in lumbering rates from large companies to help offset the escalating overhead costs, and no sign of the United States reducing tariffs on softwood lumber, Denis Deschamps has resorted to calling an auctioneer to sell his logging equ

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) is committing $1.22 million in funding toward First Nations in northwestern Ontario.

Fifty people at Thunder Bay’s Cascades Fine Papers Group are going to be receiving pink slips over the next 12 weeks.

The family that works together should not have much to talk about at Christmas dinner, or so one would think. For the Holtz family, however, nothing could be further from the truth.

The new rules for managing Ontario’s forests have both positive and negative aspects, but are generally being hailed as positive by all parties.