Forestry

Columbia Forest Products is reopening its Rutherglen veneer mill, east of North Bay, after a five-year shutdown. Gary Gillespie, vice-president of Columbia’s Northern Operations, announced Dec.

Resolute Forest Products said it will not attain new Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifications for its Canadian forests based on coming changes in the designation process that could impact its wood supply.

Almost five years into his tenure as chairman of Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation (NFMC), Daryl Skworchinski still maintains it’s the right concept to manage the flow of Crown fibre on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

Columbia Forest Products announced that the installation of a new $15-million lathe line at its Hearst mill is now complete.

A forestry workers union head said there’s a plethora of well-paying mill jobs to be had in northwestern Ontario, but many employers are struggling to find skilled jobs to fill them.

When True North Hardwood Plywood closed in 2013, 240 people lost their jobs and Cochrane lost one of its biggest economic generators.

A New Liskeard-headquartered forest management company is close to commercializing a proprietary remote sensing technology to calculate forest inventories.

The operators of a Sioux Lookout area sawmill were fined $48,000 after a worker’s arm was crushed in a 2013 industrial accident.

The long-awaited restart of Kenora Forest Products received a cash injection courtesy from Ottawa.

Frank Dottori has lofty expectations for White River Forest Products. The sawmill, located halfway between Sault Ste.